by Gordon Mackay | Nov 10, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
I grew up in Buckie with an English mum and Scots dad, and consider myelf “bi-lingual”. As a student in St Andrews, I recall phoning my parents from the payphone in the corridor on my first night away from home and prattling away in my native dialect, much to the...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
1st November 2020 If you want to share what we do with others, this is a great wee video to motivate them to join our Doric TN Community. To watch the video, click the play button on the section below. Join the Doric TV Community today We very much hope you will join...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 29, 2020 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
At present, Jill McWilliam, presently of Cruden Bay, has nurtured and created Dorictv which she runs from her studio in the village. It’s in its infancy, but already she has interviewed many local celebrities and was able to provide an hour long interview with...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 20, 2020 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
I am Gordon Mackay, part of the Doric Future Team, and Kenny Davidson was a great friend of mine. He was a charismatic man, around 20 years my senior. We met first met when I moved to the North East in 1981, sadly Kenny passed away in 2011, but during these 30 years I...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 22, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
Doric belangs te you an me: it’s in the quait o the countryside an the steer o the toons; it’s in the land, the sky an the sea; it’s in the wealth o culture an heritage; it’s in the lives o oor ain folk, past an present, their sangs, stories, an their rich,...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 5, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
I’m relatively new to following Jill, but I’m fair enjoying it. I’d hate wir heritage to disappear as I love the Doric and I dabble in writing Doric poems. I wrote a wee booklet a lang time ago caad “Smile a Fyle” which I sold and split...
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