{"product_id":"auld-lang-syne-grey-mini-hardback-notebook-with-pen-by-waverly-scotland","title":"Auld Lang Syne Grey Mini Hardback Notebook with Pen by Waverly Scotland","description":"\u003ch3\u003eStats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover (sprayed edges, tartan fabric, 4.29\" x 3.46\" x .59\")\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 96 (lined right-hand, plain left-hand)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePublisher description\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe paper is left-hand blank, right-hand ruled. The cloth is a soft grey, and the paper is 80gsm cream, Woodfree, FSC from stewarded forests. The boards used are recycled. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cloth is authentic, registered tartan woven in the UK. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe notebook contains a song sheet and celebrates the song 'Auld Lang Syne' which was written in 1788, and was created by Scotland's poet Robert Burns. (The Scots title translates as 'old long since', or 'times gone by', or 'long, long ago.') Elements of this song can be traced back to the 1500s and is a folk song.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople celebrate friendship and love with this song, and it is sung and associated now with Hogmanay - New Year's Eve, and at the end of weddings and celebrations. The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten, and promises to remember people of the past with fondness. Commonplace notebooks date back to the Scottish Enlightenment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany thinkers and writers used a commonplace notebook for writing down ideas and knowledge, including Adam Smith, Robert Burns, David Hume and later, writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle and Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cello bag that contains the notebook is made from resin derived from corn or other starches\/sugar sources.\u003cbr\u003eThese bags compost into water, biomass and CO2. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gresham Publishing Co Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52115083952375,"sku":"9781849345729","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/0795\/8007\/files\/4W_WBookListings_62.png?v=1794173458","url":"https:\/\/winkandwoo.com\/products\/auld-lang-syne-grey-mini-hardback-notebook-with-pen-by-waverly-scotland","provider":"Wink \u0026 Woo Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}