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North East Quine
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Kingsfold, I get some of my haggis here. They're not hunted from the wild, they're hand-reared in the Highlands.
The rest of my haggis comes from another butcher who hunts them at dawn on the slopes of Bennachie.
So you can't blame me for the dearth of haggis in Inverurie!
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Mamacita
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Haggis Hunt link
Just sighted a gold one in Kyleakin (first sighting there) and a big gold one in Kilmarnock.
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Amazing Grace
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Someone turned the cam on at Eilean Donan! And there's a golden haggis!
I saw one at Inverurie earlier - five minutes later the cam had rotated and it was gone.
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Amazing Grace
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And now that cam's dark again. I shall call it Brigadoon!
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
However, I have not forgotten my promise to Jedijudy, that if they ever send me another one, I am sending it on to her. Maybe this year, Judy ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Yay! I hope so! So far, I've not had much time to hunt the fearsome haggis. My bag must have one of the lowest numbers of everyone here.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Loch Lomond -- and then it went dark. I'm scaring them away. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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daisymay
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there's a little gold one at Stonehaven atm, but most of the others are still dark. It was always dark till after 9am when I went to school!
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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You can see the Farmer's Market at Inverurie today - if you see a fat woman in a red coat waving at the webcam, that'll be me!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I can see several red blurs but the rain on the cam is obscuring the view. I waved anyway!
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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My husband was starting to pretend he didn't know me!
I may have discovered why there are so few haggis in Inverurie - the West Church are selling haggis scones! (Very nice they are, too!)
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Boogie
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I don't think the haggises are placed by computer - they are always standing on something.
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Surfing Madness
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NEQ, didn't see you but waving at the CCTV is important! Just wondering if other people often have trouble with the loch ness one. The picture is there on the thumb nail but when you click to see it in big the whole picture goes.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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There's a nice view of Loch Ness at the moment.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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There's a very large one on Oxford Street. And no haggis at Loch Lomond but a man standing on the deck with his sleeves rolled up. It can't be that warm in Scotland, can it?
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Baptist Trainfan
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It's amazing how warming a wee dram (or a bottle or two of Tennent's) can be ...
Or so they say.
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Jack the Lass
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
There's a very large one on Oxford Street. And no haggis at Loch Lomond but a man standing on the deck with his sleeves rolled up. It can't be that warm in Scotland, can it?
No it's not. But that won't stop Glasgow being full of girls with no tights and no coat out on the town tonight (Loch Lomond is not far north of Glasgow).
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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After checking off and on all evening, I finally found one at Loch Lomond. Are they perhaps staying in tonight? Can't really blame them.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by Boogie:
How similar is the haggis to the duck billed platypus??
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Very similar, indeed, Boogie!
The Haggisclopedia has quite a number of fascinating factoids about the haggis.
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Boogie
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Ah yes - thanks jedijudy, I clearly didn't dig deeply enough into the haggisclopedia.
I do notice that the haggises are never up and about very early in the mornings.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I do notice that the haggises are never up and about very early in the mornings.
The Scottish ones like a lie in.
However on Oxford Street there's one doing her* Christmas shopping.
*Obviously female, as males of any species do not shop for Christmas before December 24th.
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kingsfold
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Yay! Big golden haggis in Inverurie. I think I've now got a full set. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I haven't seen as many about today. I suspects this portents bad weather coming.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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The Inverness webcam is pointing upriver- the first time I've seen it at that angle. I got married in that church!! (You can only just see the church as it's obscured by the trees lining the riverbank.)
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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And now it's showing a roof and the side of a building. The hill in the background, with the sort of notch in the treeline at the summit, is Craig Phadraig; the place at which Christianity reached Inverness. King Brude had his fort there. Saint Columba went to the fort and asked to speak to the king, but was refused admission. So Columba commanded the gates to open in the name of Jesus, the gates swung open: instant conversion of King Brude!
The remains of a vitrified fort still exist.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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It's hard to make out which building - the roof on the right? Or the side of a building right of centre?
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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It's on the right. It's by the riverside.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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The humping haggis of Linlithgow is at it again - with the same car.
Very worrying for the driver!
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Originally posted by Boogie:
The humping haggis of Linlithgow is at it again - with the same car.
Very worrying for the driver!
It's back again. The driver must like it.
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kingsfold
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Is that kind of behaviour legal?
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SyNoddy
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The phantom post office van stalking haggis of old London town is out and about tonight.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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From the Haggisclopedia:
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A recent sighting of a Haggis piggy-backing on the Loch Ness monster has fuelled rumours that this folk tale is in fact true.
I'm expecting that to turn up on the Ness-cam. Anyone seen it yet?
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I've never managed to see a haggis at Loch Ness, but a few sheep... and today when I could go on the computer, I saw one in Oxford Street. If I was walking there, what would I feel to meet a haggis, alive and "exercising"?
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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It looks to be just before dawn at Stonehaven Harbour and Eilean Donan. The other sites are still very dark. What time does the winter sun rise in Scotland?
There's a huge golden haggis walking the beach at Stonehaven Harbour.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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A lot of stock photos are used at night, especially in Eilean Donan
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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The farmer is in the field at Loch Ness!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Perhaps he ate the last surviving local haggis for dinner last night ... or he has it hanging in his larder.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Now there's a large brown haggis at Loch Ness. He blended into the grass so well I almost missed him.
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kingsfold
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One disguised by darkness at Eilean Donan.
That's better than usual, when it suddenly seems to get remarkably light when the haggis appears ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
And that's a confirmed full house. I think it's the first year I've managed that.
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Uncle Pete
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The little beggars are oot and aboot this evening!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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There's a golden one who frequents the rooftop of the office building in Aberdeen - I have a genuine wish to shout 'Don't jump! things aren't that bad!' ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
But my favourite is the one who patrols the shoreline, as if wondering if it's too cold for a paddle today ...
Mrs. S, preferring haggis alive and in the wild!
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Boogie
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Mrs. S, preferring haggis alive and in the wild!
There's one on Oxford Street which won't be alive for long - it's just stepped out in front of a bus!
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I'm heading for the bus into Inverurie - so if you see a fat woman in a red coat waving to the webcam....
(There's someone in a red coat there just now, but it's not me!)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Boogie:
quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Mrs. S, preferring haggis alive and in the wild!
There's one on Oxford Street which won't be alive for long - it's just stepped out in front of a bus!
well there you are - that's obviously an urban haggis. Do you suppose urban foxes prey on them?
Mrs. S, watching through her fingers
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
I'm heading for the bus into Inverurie...
I see someone in a red coat. Waving back Hopefully that was you, NEQ. It's so embarrassing waving to the wrong person! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
There's a haggis preparing to leapfrog over a car in Linlithgow Cross.
Now, this pressing question.
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A haggis is rarely larger than a foot long
Why do we see so many gigantical haggii, then?
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