Keywords: Diaries of a single man , Blogging , Diarist , diary , funny , humor , humour , Oban , Scotland , writing
An announcement in a recent edition of the Oban Times caught my eye. Sitting alongside adverts for funeral directors and a memorial sculptor was “a respectable matrimonial notice.” This wasn’t someone declaring the happy news of their marriage. Rather, it belonged to a 32-year-old American lady who was besotted with the idea of marrying a Scotsman and had placed a personal ad in the local newspaper.
https://acaricatureoflife.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/a-decent-proposal
