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About the Book

These poems written in the beautiful, rich and descriptive Scots language are a real 'Clootie Dumplin' mixture of ingredients all held together with the 'cloot' of John Waddell's ability to paint the most wonderful word pictures, such as the wee robin eating his porridge, or the wee laddie picking up his football and going home when he wasn't winning, or the wonderful display of the Giacobinias, October, 1933, witnessed by the poet on his way home from his fiddle lesson. This is a book to share with friends for anniversaries, birthdays, or Christmas. Above all, it is a book to treasure.

About the Author

Members of the Caledonian Society to which John Waddell belongs know him to be a very keen gardener, with a garden the envy of all. All his poems about gardening are deliciously funny, but the poem Gairden Walk, which goes from disaster to disaster, is a real gem. While so many of his poems on a wide range of human experience express delicate and wry humour, his personal and deeper poems are especially sensitive and moving.