Apart fom Nessie...

Baxters jam and marmalade. The factory is in the small town where my mum grew up and I always think of her and Fochabers when I see Baxters products

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world except here in Scotland. Friendly, generous natives, neither extremely hot nor extremely cold climate, wonderful scenery - in the Lowlands, the Highlands and the Islands. A choice of languages and dialects. Clever inventors, without whom the present world would be a much poorer place.

Lived there for 7 years and all I can remember is rain and feeling constantly cold. Good things were Morning Rolls and Strawberry Tarts

Portpatrick
Glencoe
Rannoch Moor
Oban
Mull
Strathpeffer
Pipers
Hospitality and friendliness

Great holidays and SUNSHINE!! We have always been very lucky with the weather when we go, usually around 12th May, our wedding anniversary.

And I love the mountains and the sea, preferably being able to see both at the same time

Oh no! Have I got another Queen to stick up for now!

I've always felt sorry for her.

In no fixed order:
Beef, raspberries, salmon
Highland clearances
Robert the Bruce and his spider
The very silly Mary Queen of Scots
Heather (and heather honey)
Scottish Chaucerians
Haggis
Whisky and Drambuie
R. Burns
Lots of islands
Smoked fish
Sword dancing, reels and other traditional dances
Lots of engineers and inventors
Sir Walter Scott
Tartan
Kilts
Bagpipes

My late mother who was the most miserable woman I've met!

Home although I have lived in England since I was eleven and love it.

Arthur's Seat which I can see across the Firth of Forth from my house
Alex Salmond and the SNP
The Forth Rail Bridge
Rain
Wind
Snow
Hot sunny days (yes it does happen sometimes)
Berry Bugs and midgies in the summer
Lovely friendly people
The Edinburgh Festival;
Gordon Brown, our so-called MP - he appeared from heaven knows where this week to appear at the Leveson Enquiry!
Space and the feelling of freedom
Wild, wild scenery
Castles - lots of them
Haggis
Religion
Football
Rugby
Drugs
Trams in Edinburgh
Dulnain Bridge where we had a holiday house
Watching our dog spring through the heather (never mind the ticks!)
Walking on 'our beach'
And lots lots more .................. and

My childhood, holidays in Arran with my own children, beautiful scenery never far away, haggis(yum),the eeriness of Glencoe, and the magic of a surprise summers day.

...and what do you think of when someone says Scotland, B?

A little bungalow by the sea near Gatehouse-of-Fleet where we spent many happy holidays. (and I now know this is the area where some of my ancestors came from!)
Student days in St Andrews.
The Edinburgh Festival when I knew an actor.
A year in Aberdeen before the oil, married with kids.
Dundee, many years ending in divorce.

My family came from Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland - I don't want Britain to change.........

Last I heard, the majority of people living in Scotland want to stay in the UK.

In my youth I was in the T.A. and had some very happy memories of Scotland. Now I am saddened to think Scotland may break away from the Union. I am not being political but seriously upset that things may change as I don't think of Scottish. Welsh or Northern Irish people as not being part of Britain.
I love Scotland for whisky, wonderful landscapes and as I remember it for warmth and people who share the same humour. How has it all gone so wrong!.

Sorry to dampen the image but I am seriously worried where it is all heading,not out of any ill feelings, more out of respect and wanting the union to stay the same.

Bagpipes, bagpipes, bagpipes.
Smoked salmon.
Drambuie. For medicinal purpose only...........
For those with a bad chest, it beats Benilyn by a mile!
Cashmere.

Definitely not Gordon Brown.

Ahhh number that's lovely!

Kintyre, and everything and everyone in it, including soop, then there`s another VERY good friend, in Fife, who I think of almost every day.

DH of course - looking on the bright side.
A plain loaf
Mountains and lakes
The Argylle and Sutherlands (a posting in Ireland with them)
Pipe music
The Ardnamurchan peninsula
The Forth road bridge (meant we were leaving)

On the other hand:
Scottish nationalism
a long, long, long, grey posting in Fife
rain
rain
wind
rain
COLD
tight lipped relatives of DH's mother

whooops! sorry....meant a Mcdonalds quarter pounder (slip of the tongue)

a Mcdonads kilt and his quarter pounder

Port Patrick I have had many happy holidays there.

The Mull of Galloway it's breathtakingly beautiful.

Scottish tablet it's delicious.

Lighthouses.

I have only been to Scotland once, and it wasn't on holiday. It was many years ago, somewhere (I think) near Pitlochry?

When I have tried to describe my impressions of it, I always end up saying "I know that the sky is just the sky, but it seemed bigger there, and the mountains were just................."

Probably makes no sense, but I know what I mean!

Thistle?

All the above plus
Ben Nevis summit with clouds beneath my feet
Sea Eagles on Mull
Rannoch Moor
Mary Queen of Scots

Apologies in advance to Scotland!
What do I think of ...... grey grey grey. rain rain rain, midges midges midges!