>From message 3 of Perthshire Digest, Vol6, Issue 1 Gordon. Mmmmm! Not usual to get political style comments on the postings but your one caught the eye. Maybe it's just me after a very fraught time of family visits during the holiday period, and I may have read this the wrong way, but ... What did you mean when you said "I like to point out that if they persist in using England to mean Britain, this gives ammunition to the Scottish Nationalist Party!" That sounds as though you think this is a bad thing and surely needs to have an oppposing point of view for balance. I just wonder what is so wrong with 'giving amunition' to one of the very few 'Scottish' political parties who want to govern over its own land, rather than the other 3 main parties all of who are UK/England based and therefore have the UK/England as their main concerns? Come the revolution, hopefully there will be more choice of Scottish parties to vote for in a truly independent Scottish parliament. Anyway, if overseas readers are interested in what is actually happening in Scotland at present and in the lead up to the election in May there are a few good blog sites available that are not all pointing towards foreign control of my country. http://newsnetscotland.com/ is a good place to start because it is banned by the BBC in Scotland. Find out what the fuss is about (if you can - tell the rest of us as we can't figure it out). This site gives video clips of First Ministers Question Time with no additional commentry, so that listeners can make up their own minds. http://caledonianmercury.com/ is a good web based newspaper and the sketches by Rab are always entertaining about the going-ons in the chamber at First Ministers Question Time. Anyway, rant over - sorry - and while I'm here, if anyone is searching in Perthshire for a DOCTOR family from Cargill and surrounding areas, I would be interested. Also looking for Jane/Jean MACRAE/MCCRAW/MCCRAE who married into this family and was originally from Glenbanachar, near Kingussie. Dates are all from about 1790 onwards with Jane/Jean dying in Burrletown in January 1876. Milrig, Cargill seems to have been her residence for a while about 1815-1820 at least, with Lawtown Cottages, Cargill her main residence for the rest of her time in Perthshire. Blianna mhath ur agus slainte mhath to all over the next year. John