Mitchell's Diary
Mitchell’s Diary
THE recent swine-flu scare almost made a pig’s ear of the annual student nursing exchange between Grampian Region and its twin city of Houston, Texas. A two-week study visit to Aberdeen by two Mexican-born student nurses from Houston Baptist University had to be postponed earlier this month.
Published: 22/05/2009
IT WAS Cash Back with a difference with the eminently-sociable members and friends of Peterhead Football Club at the weekend. No, it wasn’t a convention of broken-down bankers, but a tribute evening to the American country and western legend Johnny Cash which attracted your Diarist.
Published: 08/05/2009
Mitchell’s Diary
A SLICE of your Diarist’s family links with the north-east has come to light in an old shoebox from the early 1930s. Chemical engineer Keith Hart and his wife, Liz, have lived in the old manse at Ardallie, near Ellon, for more than 30 years, near the church which has long since ceased to be a place of worship. They came across the shoebox in the loft of the front porch which they were replacing.
Published: 01/05/2009
