15 August, 2008

Scottish quick facts

All of which I applaud:

Fifty-two percent of all marriages in Scotland in 2007 were civil ceremonies, rather than religious weddings. The absolute number was 29,866, compared to ~40,000 pa in the 1970s.
Almost half of the 57,781 births in Scotland in 2007 were to unmarried parents.

The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard resides at Edinburgh Zoo, and is in fact a penguin.