If yer aff tae the Worldcon in Glesga this August, here's yer minding that you've goat until Seterday tae nominate yer stuff fur the Hugos, or Shuggies as they should be cried.
Fur me, am nominating Big Shuggy Maclaferty, Shug fae the scheme and Wee Senga, that we ayways cry Hugh just tae wind her up.
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Thanks to Mr. Stross those attending Worldcon may now be aware of Clootie and may wish to try making it themselves.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/111935213423432796
Before you do, be reminded of that traditional Scottish saying "Ne'er cast a cloot till May be oot" which is reminding you never to try fishing with bits of dumpling unless your Aunt May is away and so won't complain.
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It's Hogmanay, that most Scottish of holidays.
Prepare yourself for attending the Glasgow Worldcon in August by remembering it is New Year, not New Years, rewatching the Christmas Doctor Who for con fashion advice and shouting 'May your lums, no lugs, reek lang and weel.'
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Should you wonder how a Glasgow Worldcon next year will vary from the Dublin Worldcon of a few years back then look at how they refer to December.
In Irish Gaelic December is Nollaig, to go with Christmas Day, Lá Nollag.
In Scots Gaelic, December is An Dùbhlachd, The Blackness, due to the lack of daylight.
What this clearly tells us is that Glasgow is much more metal than Dublin and would win in a fight.
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Happy Saint Andrew's Day.
This is the day when all Scots, including those organising next year's Worldcon, prostrate themselves on a cold pavement facing the town of Saint Andrews in Fife and pray to it's traditional mayor, a giant haggis in royal regalia, for a bountiful year to come.
If we're very lucky it will reply by spraying Irn Bru through the streets.
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It's the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and so a perfect time for those going to next year's Woldcon to celebrate the four Scottish actors who have played that role. Sylvester McCoy of Dunoon, David Tennant of Bathgate and Paisley, Peter Capaldi of Bishopbriggs and Ncuti Gatwa of Kigali and Edinburgh.
So great have these Scots been in the role that two of them even got to use their own accents.
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Following on from thoughts on travel it is important to note that you can attend the Glasgow Worldcon online should you live somewhere far away, such as Patagonia or Fife.
The advantage here being that you can enjoy the fruits of that most wonderous Scottish inventor John Logie Baird who first demonstrated his television in Glasgow while also avoiding having to smell fandom after five days on the randan.
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It's been a while because, stuff, but next on my list of important information for those traveling to Worldcon in Glasgow is transport.
Should you wish to arrive in Scotland in a refined manner then the Sleeper train is well worth considering.
Somewhat expensive, not the greatest nights sleep and slow but has a fine whisky selection and there is only a thirty percent chance you'll be involved in an Agatha Christie-esque murder plot.
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It's the last Friday of October and, as everyone in Ayrshire knows, that makes it Hallowe'en, the Scottish festival of costuming that Americans do wrong.
This night is possibly the most dangerous for a tourist to go out as fairies, devils and witches abound and if you even mention Trick or Treat a very dull individual will go on about guising and dooking for apples.
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Congratulations to everyone winning a Hugo Award at the Worldcon in China today.
In Scotland, anyone with the name Hugh is given the nickname Shug for reasons lost to the mists of time but probably featuring illicit alcoholic beverages while hanging out on the swings of a children's play-park in Perth somewhere around 1150 A.D.
As such, I expect at the Glasgow Worldcon next year that the Hugos will be renamed the Shuggies.
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