Publisher's Synopsis
This large notebook/journal (21cm x 13cm) with 192 pages (one side blank, one side ruled) is bound in authentic tartan cloth made in the UK and made from Auld Lang Syne Tartan. A notebook with the lyrics of Auld Lang Syne printed on the bookmark inside, with the story behind it. "Auld Lang Syne" - "old long since" or "times gone by"- is an old Scottish song that Robert Burns contributed to the 1796 edition of the book, Scots Musical Museum. Burns made some refinements to the lyrics and transcribed it, having heard it sung by an old man from the Ayrshire area of Scotland, Burns's homeland. The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten, and promises to remember people of the past with fondness: "For auld lang syne, we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet." Elements of the song can be traced back to the 1500s. It is the most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's Eve, popularised by band leader Guy Lombardo in New York in the mid 1920s, who first heard it sung by immigrant Scots in London, Ontario. It became a New Year tradition and is familiar across the world. Commonplace notebooks date back to the Scottish Enlightenment. Many thinkers and writers used a Commonplace notebook for writing down ideas and knowledge. Adam Smith, Robert Burns, David Hume, and later, writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Virginia Woolf used commonplace notebooks. About the notebook: This notebook is made with cloth woven in mills in the United Kingdom. Notebook pages and paper components are made with acid-free paper from sustainable forests. Boards used in the binding process are made of 100% recycled paper. This hardback notebook is bound in genuine British tartan cloth with an elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves and expandable inner note holder. Kinloch Anderson: The tartan cloth is supplied by and produced with the authority of Kinloch Anderson Scotland, holders of Royal Warrants of Appointment as Tailors and Kiltmakers.
