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Derf
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He does have the advantage of having lived in Scotland for a whole lot longer than most of the rest of us playing the game!
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Alan Cresswell
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Does Eilean Donan count? Or is it simply too small to be called a proper island?
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by Alan Cresswell: Does Eilean Donan count? Or is it simply too small to be called a proper island?
Rockall counts, although it's no more than a seamount that happens to break the surface, and it's barely sixty feet square. Here's a link to an expedition by some Belgians.
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kingsfold
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Just thought I'd drop by to say,
"It's snowing here."
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Surfing Madness
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quote: Originally posted by kingsfold: Just thought I'd drop by to say,
"It's snowing here."
none here yet, but the temperature is meant to drop so you never know.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote: Originally posted by Surfing Madness: quote: Originally posted by kingsfold: Just thought I'd drop by to say,
"It's snowing here."
none here yet, but the temperature is meant to drop so you never know.
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Macgyver's Apprentice
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quote: Just thought I'd drop by to say,
"It's snowing here."
It was snowing. It's now raining.
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Piglet
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Having rained all day yesterday here (and got rid of at least some of last week's snow) it's now snowing again, although not in a very determined manner ...
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Jack the Lass
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The snow yesterday meant that most of my students didn't make it to my tutorial - I had the grand total of 1, which made the group activities I had planned a bit on the redundant side. Ho hum. Today we've had beautiful blue skies but it's been a bit brass monkeys.
In other news, we are hoping to go on an adventure tomorrow. Scotland is good for adventures.
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Surfing Madness
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quote: Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
In other news, we are hoping to go on an adventure tomorrow. Scotland is good for adventures.
Any idea where yet?
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Jack the Lass
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Yes, we're off to the Montrose Basin. Meeting up with some of my London friends who moved to St Andrews last year, so might go home via there. Two places I've not been to in one day, which is always good
Much of the east of Scotland is a complete unknown to me. It's one of the reasons I like living here, there's so much to discover,
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North East Quine
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The Montrose basin is my favourite bit of any train journey south because it's never the same twice. It looks completely different dependent on tide, light, weather, whether there's snow on the hills on the far side etc. I've seen it pink-and-gold, green-and-blue, grey-and-white, ochre-and-cream.
Good choice, Jack!
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Jengie jon
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quote: Originally posted by Jack the Lass: Yes, we're off to the Montrose Basin. Meeting up with some of my London friends who moved to St Andrews last year, so might go home via there.
Oh weather predicting for St Andrews, whatever it is doing in Dundee it will NOT be that in St Andrews. There is some science behind this but from observations the relationship apart from difference seems unpredictable. Otherwise warm and windproof clothing but I expect you knew that and enjoy!
Jengie
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Derf
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Are you going to hit a ball around with a stick?
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Jack the Lass
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I was in St Andrews for the first time today too! Sad not to bump into you!
It has a very good cheese shop.
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Derf
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I'd rather have cheese with my haircut than whisky....
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kingsfold
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Given how much I don't like having my hair cut, I'll think I'd rather have the cheese and the whisky. If that's OK?
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North East Quine
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Was the cheese shop "Iain Mellis"? They have a branch in Rosemount, Aberdeen, and it's excellent. Our church Young Women's Group* went there for a cheese-tasting session; it was a really good evening, and good value, too, though I suspect they made a tidy profit out of after-sales.
*If you knew our congregation you'd understand why I'm included in the "Young" Women's Group - I'm not even the oldest of the "Young" women. Basically, if you haven't qualified for a bus pass, you're "young."
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Derf
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Kingsfold you leave me debating which is worse, whisky or having my hair cut! Not sure, but whisky is more avoidable. So probably I'll be sticking to the cheese.
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daisymay
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Something different - did you lot see St Andrew's Uni hymn singing tonight on TV from 5pm? I was pleased to see and hear the whole time, with hymns being performed that had been made not late ago. I also liked seeing St Andres "church" where I was at uni. They had the students at the front of the church, not upstairs where as usual the choir preformed on Sundays.
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Jengie jon
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Do you mean "St Salvators" as St Andrews, St Andrews is slightly different? The choir on the balcony at the back was definitely the practice at St Salvators when I was there.
Jengie
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Sandemaniac
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Did you visit Luvians bottle shop in St Andrews? If it's anything like the parent shop in Cupar, it's a whisky lover's wet dream.
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daisymay
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quote: Originally posted by Jengie Jon: Do you mean "St Salvators" as St Andrews, St Andrews is slightly different? The choir on the balcony at the back was definitely the practice at St Salvators when I was there.
Jengie
Yes, it's St Salvator, where they were up there on the balcony - but this Sunday they were at the front, opposite to their usual place. And of course, we in the ground bit of the church/kirk, were always at men and women sides. And I was there early morning always, just before the lecture started.
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Jengie jon
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Men and women thing has been gone for at least thirty years. In my day the academic procession went into the fancy pews at the back, including the master who was female and it would be very awkward with the current Vice Chancellor. Technically postgraduates and St Mary's students were supposed to fill the rest of the section but rarely did.
As chapel usher I once made the "mistake" of putting UHStAGA members into the empty seats in front of the academic procession. After all they were normally empty and you got a good view of the preacher from there.
Jengie
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Jack the Lass
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quote: Originally posted by North East Quine: Was the cheese shop "Iain Mellis"? They have a branch in Rosemount, Aberdeen, and it's excellent. Our church Young Women's Group* went there for a cheese-tasting session; it was a really good evening, and good value, too, though I suspect they made a tidy profit out of after-sales.
No, it was this one which apparently opened about a year ago, very near to Iain Mellis. The proprietor is a cheese judge and really knowledgeable, I was very impressed (cheese was delicious too).
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Piglet
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That makes me want an excuse to go there next time I'm home, but it's rather off the beaten track for us; when we're in Scotland, we're usually hot-footing it from Edinburgh to Orkney and back.
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kingsfold
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WE have two cheese shops in Glasgow as well.
There's an I J Mellis on Great Western Rd and George Mewes on Byres Rd. The latter is fabulous, and it's almost impossible to leave without buying lots & Lots of lovely cheese.
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Piglet
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Couldn't the bats just fly between the battlements?
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Firenze
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: Couldn't the bats just fly between the battlements?
Not wearing all that armour and woad and badly-fitting plaid. (I've seen the historical epics: everybody dressed like that in those days - except for Mary Queen of Scots, who had a big frock).
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daisymay
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Have you seen the pictures from Vikings in Shetland ? My family, we are descended from Norwegian Vikings, not from Shetland, but from Mull, MacLeans, but we've never performed like they do up there! I always like to see what they are doing every year!
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To The Pain
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: Couldn't the bats just fly between the battlements?
I fully expect they do, but the story goes that the daughter of the first Earl of Gowrie leapt from one set of battlements to the other when in danger of being found in the chamber where her lover had been installed for the night (near bottom of page). From the inside, this seems rather a long way, but once you are on the higher set of battlements it doesn't seem so ridiculous. Risky, but not unlikely.
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daisymay
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She may have done something like that before and so had "practice" to jump over that so high and quite a long jump!
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by daisymay: Have you seen the pictures from Vikings in Shetland ?
Having no Shetland connections, I've never been to Up Helly Aa, but about 25 years ago a couple of friends in Orkney (both slightly eccentric incomers from England) decided they'd build a long-boat and do a small-scale re-enactment. We went along and processed with the boat down to the nearest harbour and, since none of us knew the Up Helly Aa song, we sang On Ilkley Moor ba' t'hat instead ...
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Welease Woderwick
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...in Gaelic, I presume!
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joan knox
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not in Orkney - that would have been Norn?
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: quote: Originally posted by daisymay: Have you seen the pictures from Vikings in Shetland ?
Having no Shetland connections, I've never been to Up Helly Aa, but about 25 years ago a couple of friends in Orkney (both slightly eccentric incomers from England) decided they'd build a long-boat and do a small-scale re-enactment. We went along and processed with the boat down to the nearest harbour and, since none of us knew the Up Helly Aa song, we sang On Ilkley Moor ba' t'hat instead ...
You could have recited Hamish Blair's Bloody Orkney, but that was written by a grumpy sailor stuck on a freezing ship at Scapa Flow.
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Piglet
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I wouldn't dream of reciting that libellous tosh.
I have a feeling that a cousin of my dad's wrote a "reply" to it - I'll have to do some digging about that ...
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Jengie jon
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I can report the same here.
Jengie
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daisymay
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Most of the pictures on the Haggis Hunt show no snow now. Even up lots of hills. But I enjoyed climbing mountains when they were totally covered with lots of snow, not wet, when I was younger. I was climbing, not skying, and being careful not to slip down on the edge. And where we lived, our home was up a hill, and the snow was never removed from it and we had wooden ones we used to whiz down over and over again - and some adults did it too. Nowadays they all seem to have plastic ones!
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North East Quine
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I saw some Irn-Bru cupcakes in a bakery in Dundee yesterday; the icing was that nasty orange shade, they had a wee Irn Bru decoration printed on rice paper sticking out of the icing and apparently they tasted of Irn-Bru, too. (No, I didn't have one!)
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Scots lass
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quote: Originally posted by North East Quine: I saw some Irn-Bru cupcakes in a bakery in Dundee yesterday; the icing was that nasty orange shade, they had a wee Irn Bru decoration printed on rice paper sticking out of the icing and apparently they tasted of Irn-Bru, too. (No, I didn't have one!)
I was sent a recipe for Irn-Bru cupcakes last year, so I made some. They didn't taste of Irn-Bru, they were just really sweet and the consistency was very strange - sort of half cake, half fudge. I don't know if I went somewhere very wrong in the recipe, but I woudn't recommend them. I ate one, a friend who is also a fan of Irn Bru ate one, we both thought they were weird and everyone else refused to try them!
Which means that for Scottish sweet recipes, I'm sticking to tablet!
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Baptist Trainfan
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These are not quite the same as the ones that North East Quine mentions ... but I think they're related!
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Scots lass
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quote: Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan: These are not quite the same as the ones that North East Quine mentions ... but I think they're related!
Those are the ones I made!
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