Why is Gordon Brown's jaw so prominent? Every time I see a picture of him, I instantly notice his famous jaw.
I was reading a biography of him and I learnt, to my pleasant surprise, that he was quite the intellectual back at school. Read history in university. Brilliant chap, isn't he? My esteem of him has certainly soared.
Benjamin, do you know what is his religion? Does he belong to the Church of England or Scotland? _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
Benjamin, do you know what is his religion? Does he belong to the Church of England or Scotland?
He belongs to the Church of Scotland, and his father was a Presbyterian minister. I don't know whether he's actually very religious or not though.
I was just reading a book called Faintheart — An Englishman Ventures North of the Border by Charles Jennings. At one point, whilst talking about Edinburgh, he wrote:
'Over time, I realised that all this was pure Edinburgh, inside and out. It was like being inside Gordon Brown: rigorous, solid, lumpily handsome, old-fashioned, forbidding, short of élan, humourless, stuffy, imposing, suffocating, defiant, prim. I decided that in fact the bad bits — the shortage of light, the vertigo, the unease, the strong reek of the past — were so glumly Edinburgh that they were good bits after all, and that everything was really as perfect as it was going to get.'
Well, it seems that Gordon Brown is a human personification of Edinburgh then!
I think it is very believable that he is the son of a Presyberian minister if my stereotypes of Presbyterians are anything to go by: Dour churchgoers who tithe with a vengeance. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
I think it is very believable that he is the son of a Presyberian minister if my stereotypes of Presbyterians are anything to go by: Dour churchgoers who tithe with a vengeance.
Ah yes — I have a sentimental attachment to that sort of thing. I think it sums up Scotland rather well — for some reason, I always have this image of women with short grey hair, 'frowning' glasses and tweed suits, solemnly drinking tea with shortbread and Dundee cake. Actually, I met a woman from Edinburgh at the Annual Meetings of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches earlier this year — she was originally from England, but had lived in Scotland for about 20 years, and seemed to have become exactly like that.
Ah yes — I have a sentimental attachment to that sort of thing. I think it sums up Scotland rather well — for some reason, I always have this image of women with short grey hair, 'frowning' glasses and tweed suits, solemnly drinking tea with shortbread and Dundee cake.
That must be very Old Scotland. But why short grey hair? That sounds like the image of a cultivated but otherwise middle-class housewife anywhere in the world!
_________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
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