This one's about a fake Canadian cartoonist society with a whole bunch of outposts all over Canada.
Instead of girding up for the exhausting and hard-drinking round of Highland balls that rounded off the Scottish social season, he was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and might have spent the whole war in remote northern outposts had it not been for his interest in military training.
Writing in Saturday's Scotsman, Gunn, an award-winning novelist and professor at Dundee University, claimed that the "creative atmosphere" in Scotland is "changing", with the Scottish National Party running "a whole host of institutions and outposts and advisory bodies that are hell-bent on defining exactly just what Scotland's culture is and should be".
I know all about chef Carl Clarke, frenetic former DJ and pop-up supremo; I've checked out his original Haggerston outpost for a memorable whole fried chicken.
"They call it a 'hidden gem,' this whole alley". It's a funky, unpolished outpost with an Old World, kitschy vibe, like a low-rent version of Universal CityWalk.
Granted, many of the same flyers show up at multiple outposts, but taken as a whole, each bulletin board forms a collage celebrating the building's culture: dressed up or down, professional or granola, concerned with human rights or Kantian philosophy, adaptive immunity or playing mah-jongg, finding an apartment or saving the environment or all of these things at once.
Little Rock, AR The food court snags an outpost of national champion BBQ-ers Whole Hog Cafe, and there's an Oachita Brewhouse, which pours local microbrews.
In addition to the usual officers patrols left out overnight to monitor the enemy's positions, Chauvel decided to leave out for the night the whole of the 1st Light Horse Brigade to hold an outpost line of about 3 miles (4.8 km), covering all entrances to the sandhill plateau which formed the Romani position and which were not protected by infantry posts.
It rises above parochial self-interest, and speaks for and to the whole country; from the largest city to the most remote outpost.
By the time the sun rose in Brussels, a meeting of eurozone finance ministers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) had unleashed a whole new misery upon the residents of one struggling eurozone outpost.
