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A MONTH in which romance comes to the fore. That’s February for you, with its celebration of St Valentine’s Day. Is it signiicant, I wonder, that it’s also the shortest month of the year?
More seriously, I think it’s fair to say that Scots are not exactly renowned for their romantic spirit. Compared to the French or the Italians, we are at the other end of the pendulum swing, away from the lowery, soppy stuf, towards the more ‘earthy’ or practical. “You dancin’?” is not really one of the most poetically framed or inclined questions.