“The present school-house stands in an open place beside the main road to Muirtown, treeless and comfortless, built of red, staring stone, with a playground for the boys and another for the girls, and a trim, smug-looking teacher's house, all very neat and symmetrical and well-regulated... It has pitch-pine benches and map-cases, and a thermometer to be kept at not less than 58 degrees and not more than 62 degrees, and ventilators which the Inspector is careful to examine.” SchoolDrumtochty Book:Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Source: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
“I have thought of writing and trying to give a truthful picture of Scottish life - a cross between Drumtochty and The House with the Green Shutters - but it would probably be reviewed as a 'feebly written story of life in a Scots provincial town' and then I would beat my pen into a hatpin and retreat from the literary arena.” ScotlandBarbieKailyardScottish LiteratureGeorge Douglas BrownDrumtochtyIain Maclaren Book:Penny Plain Source: Penny Plain