Auld Lang Syne Pocket Notebook

‘Auld Lang Syne Grey’ pocket notebook is new in January 2026.  The paper is left-hand blank, right-hand ruled. Size :  RRP £10.99 inc VAT  (Size is 14cm x 9cm). 176 pages

The cloth is a soft grey in colour, and the paper is 80gsm cream, Woodfree, FSC from stewarded forests. The boards used are recycled. The cloth is woven in the UK. The cello bag that contains the notebook is made from resin derived from corn or other starches/sugar sources. These bags compost into water, biomass and CO2.

The 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. People 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. Many 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.