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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Snow! Lots of snow!!
Big kid! You won't be saying that in January.
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I won't be saying it next week, if the school bus doesn't run!!
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daisymay
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I've always enjoyed snow and I remember playing in it with lots of children some of course teenagers, in Dundee where we lived, and they did lots of "human beings".
Another thing: did you lot hear the news about and hour, about Scots Presbyterian church and buildings in Israel and Sots who lived there? They talked and told us about how they were there and not prejudiced.
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I don't know if it's the same thing, but there's a thread in Purgatory about a hotel in Galilee run by the Kirk.
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I've had this week off and been at home - I tried to go for a walk every day (weather permitting), I didn't think I'd be able to today looking at the rain this morning, but by lunchtime there were blue skies and it wasn't too cold so I wandered out to the park and saw snow-capped peaks in the distance. The Ochils didn't have snow, but the mountains further north certainly did. It was really beautiful ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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North East Quine
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I'm in full mind-boggle mode. DC Thomson are selling "bronze portrait busts" of the Broons at £132 each. That's £1452 for the complete set of 11 Broons. Who would pay £132 for a bronze Broon?
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daisymay
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Another thing I just saw on my computer this morning: Irn-Bru but not us. Should it be attached to another one? A long time ago it was absolute just one taste. They say it may be cheaper, and less work for speople, who may have to get different work to get money.
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daisymay
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And we've been shown pictures on TV about the huge amounts of water in bits of Scotland. It looks scarey, but not everywhere. I hope it gets better, and also the trees being cut down too.
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Firenze
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It seems very localised: I didn't even notice it being that wet hereabouts. But I'm sorry for Comrie (of the earthquakes) - it's a lovely wee village.
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North East Quine
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It's soggy here, but no more than that.
Last night the council revealed its plans for more building in our area, just on the edge of the flood plain. Their plans showed the limits of a "1-in-200-years-flood" I pointed out that there had been a few of these 1-in-200-year-floods during the last 200 years. I think the ballpark figure is 9. Council person told me that calculating these figures wasn't as simple as looking back at the historic records (which would make them 1-in-40-year-floods.) Apparently 1-in-200-years doesn't refer to how frequently they happen. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
It's soggy here, but no more than that.
Last night the council revealed its plans for more building in our area, just on the edge of the flood plain. Their plans showed the limits of a "1-in-200-years-flood" I pointed out that there had been a few of these 1-in-200-year-floods during the last 200 years. I think the ballpark figure is 9. Council person told me that calculating these figures wasn't as simple as looking back at the historic records (which would make them 1-in-40-year-floods.) Apparently 1-in-200-years doesn't refer to how frequently they happen.
Quite so. It refers to how likely they will be in the future. Once in forty years covers any political career and most local government careers too, so it looks like they take a "it shouldn't happen twice on my watch" view and go from there.
It hasn't worked in places like Tewkesbury though, which has had two 1:100 year floods in ten years.
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North East Quine
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In my village, historically, they've clustered. So there were three floods, two of them 1-in-200 year floods within one decade (1865-1875). I appreciate that conditions are quite different now (different population, drainage system, extent of ground built over) but if the houses in the main street in our village were 4 ft deep in water then, I can't imagine them not flooding at all in similar weather conditions today.
One council spokesman said he could understand my point because his own previous house had been flooded twice, 6 years apart, by 1-in-200-year floods.
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daisymay
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And there is another BAD FORECAST for weather in lots of Scotland. Our homes were always up hills and up the top of homes and so we never got loads of water into us. But one of the school places got wet!
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St Andrews Day greetings to all Shipmates!
The sky is a wintry pearly pinky-grey with an almost full moon clearly visible, everything outside is white and frosty, the neighbours' birch tree stands stark and bare against the sky and I'm cosy inside with a mug of coffee reading a nineteenth century newspaper online. Bliss!
Hope your days are starting out well, too.
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Happy St Andrew's Day!!
Many Canadian aboriginals have more than a drop of Scots blood and a lot of French-Canadians do, as well. The ex-pat Scots settled down really well in the Canadian Wilderness after the 1759 incidents.
One of my great-Grandparents was a French-speaking McNicoll. His grandparents were Scots Presbyterians.
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Our school's nursery put on a St. Andrew's Day Ceilidh complete with a piper and Kathleen MacInnes. The kids sang songs in Gaelic and Engish and danced, and we parents got to enjoy some homemade scones, shortbread, and millionaire shortbread. A fine wee celebration for Latha Naomh Anndra (Saint Andrew's Day).
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That sounds great for the school performing at St Andrew's day!
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Happy St Andrew's Day!
I am having stovies to celebrate. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Jack the Lass
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We celebrated St Andrew's Day with that other Scottish staple - curry
Haven't there been some amazing skies this week? Loads of pink skies, especially on my morning journey to work as the sun comes up. It's been beautiful, and (almost) takes my mind off the temperature.
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Firenze
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And the aureoles round the full(ish) moon have also been spectacular.
There has been beautiful hoarfrost the last few days as well, and wonderful sunset after glows.
Just a pity it's bloody freezing and dark by four.
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mrs whibley
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Headed down to Peebles today. Rather unwisely we chose to take the scenic route through the Moorfoot Hills, where there had been some snow. It was very pretty but somewhat slidey! We slithered around Peebles for a few hours, then came back the dull way
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Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Anyone know how long homemade tablet will keep for?
About an hour
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Originally posted by PeteC:
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Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
Anyone know how long homemade tablet will keep for?
About an hour
I wondered if that was the helpful sort of answer I would get.
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North East Quine
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Pretty much indefinitely, I would think. However, this is pure speculation, as no sample has ever remained uneaten long enough for a proper scientific study.
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A whole hour? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Polly Plummer
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I always laugh when I see a recipe for what to do with left-over cake: an unknown concept in this house.
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daisymay
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Just saw this info this morning, (not about food), Snow and lots of freezing. I remember when I was young that we loved being removed from school, usually just an afternoon and then another day, and we loved using all the snow, and also going onto the loch that was frozen and we could practise "slipping" on the solid ice and adults had games there too! Will some of you being doing things like that?
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Well I managed to slip on the ice round the back of my car yesterday - does that count?! I'm not impressed with having to defrost the car morning and evening, so was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't iced up this morning. It's still flipping cold though.
Scz promised me snow by 10am, but it's currently falling as rain. How is it further north/west?
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Firenze
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It's cold and wet and windy. And I have to go out. My current strategy is to sit with the heating off until such time as the outdoor temperature looks relatively attractive.
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S'raining here.
If it melts the ice that's still lurking from Monday's snow, it will be fine. If not, the pavements (which are currently.. interesting) will be treacherous. Have got the Yak-traks in my bag!
I'm torn between thinking that bringing the car was a reasonable thing to do (too far to walk, and raining) or a stupid thing to do (if it gets colder and freezes). Oh, and there is a burst pipe in my building at work. It stinks, and worse still, we can't use the tea-room. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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I eased myself over Beattock Summit this morning at 10am. The sleet in the valley turned to snow at 1000 feet, and it was a wee bit tricky for a time. Having just driven the same way back, the motorway is a little better now, but is covered in surface water, and the alternate route looked nasty.
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Firenze
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I eased myself over Beattock Summit this morning at 10am.
Jings, I remember coming over that one night in a real follow-the-tailights blizzard. We had the old diesel Golf at the time fortunately - the verges where full of cars with petrol engines that had just seized up.
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Kingsfold what on earth are Yak-traks?
The drive is an ice rink this morning but I managed to stay upright. Scz tells me next week is when it gets properly cold - here's hoping his predictions continue to be wrong!
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Yak-traks are one of the most useful things I've discovered since I've been in Scotland. They're basically small steel spirals attached to a rubber kind of frame that you pull over your boots/shoes. As you stand on ice/compacted snow, the steel spirals bite into the surface, and you don't slip. They're fantastic! (I've used them on icy pavements going uphill and stayed upright).
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Oooh, clever. Might have to invest in some of those.
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I got mine in one of the outdoor shops - Tiso or Cotswold or something similar.
There's a knack to putting them on (which I haven't quite yet got), but they are very effective!
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They are also available in some Department Stores - there were some in TJs in Liverpool last week. I didn't buy any as I thought I might not need them here.
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I saw a red squirrel today! Unfortunately by the time I got the camera out it was gone.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... I didn't buy any as I thought I might not need them here.
Really? ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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We are just back from a very lovely relaxing holiday on Coll. Weather woes meant that we ended up arriving a day late, as the ferry couldn't land on the intended day, and we thought the same thing might happen at the end of the holiday too, although we did eventually manage to get on board and safely back to the mainland. It was lovely there - it pretty much prides itself on having nothing to do, so apart from a couple of beach walks and wanders round the village, we did very little. Well, apart from eat ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Cottontail
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Who is gearing up for Hogmanay? I will be dancing around the enormous Biggar bonfire, and contributing to the temporary closure of the A702, one of the main trunk roads south from Edinburgh!
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
Who is gearing up for Hogmanay? I will be dancing around the enormous Biggar bonfire, and contributing to the temporary closure of the A702, one of the main trunk roads south from Edinburgh!
Quiet one this time, but we are moving down that way in February so may be joining you next year!
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Firenze
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For the first time in a couple of decades, we won't be going out. Sad in some ways, but OTOH quite glad not to be tramping home in the small hours and spending the greater part of New Years Day going Oh ma hied.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
... spending the greater part of New Years Day going Oh ma hied.
I know this sounds daft, but as an exiled Orcadian, I rather miss spending New Year's Day going "oh ma heid".
We're going to friends for supper, which will extend to taking in the New Year, but the male half of one of the other couples who'll be there is a teetotaller and inveterate early-bedder* - he'll spend the first two hours eating (he loves his food) and the second two looking at his watch.
As soon as we've heard the local equivalent of "bongs", wished one another a happy new year and sung Auld lang syne (they think it's the Done Thing, but I've never done it in Scotland ) he'll start telling his wife they should really be going, and eventually he'll put on his wellies and go and start the car.
We love him lots, but he doesn't half make us
* If he stays up much past 9 p.m. he starts to turn into a pumpkin.
PS I hope you all have a great Hogmanay, and if you do have an "oh ma heid" moment, a couple of solpadeine and a lot of orange juice should help.
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* If he stays up much past 9 p.m. he starts to turn into a pumpkin.
I don't think I have any relatives in Newf. Well, I do have a cousin in Mount Pearl. The early nights are genetic.
I am so busy tomorrow, I shan't be anywhere, but I expect I will be tucked up in bed with a good book.*
*No, not that one! Not a bad idea though. I need to do better on my pre-church bible quiz.
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PS I hope you all have a great Hogmanay, and if you do have an "oh ma heid" moment, a couple of solpadeine and a lot of orange juice should help.
My planned hangover cure is a bottle of cheap cider and a quick fag in the car park of the Millwall football ground at half time.
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
Who is gearing up for Hogmanay? I will be dancing around the enormous Biggar bonfire, and contributing to the temporary closure of the A702, one of the main trunk roads south from Edinburgh!
Quiet one this time, but we are moving down that way in February so may be joining you next year!
And I am moving a little further away this year! Nevertheless, I have much family in the area, so will be in and around Biggar with reasonable frequency. Let me know if you need a local guide.
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I've started the evening with Monty Python Flux......there is no hope of any sanity!
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