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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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But what a battle.
I did think the Olympic win was a watershed though.
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Firenze
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Jings, the bevvies'll be flowing like cold porridge in Caledonia tonight!
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Cottontail
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Wee Andy!
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daisymay
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Hurray for Andy! and it was on the news this morning, which made me feel very happy! Well done!
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Dafyd
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Looking at the front pages in the newsagents, it appears that the Scottish papers kept their staff working later than the London papers did.
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Welease Woderwick
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He even gets a big write up on the sports pages here this morning.
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Surfing Madness
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Went to Arbroath on Saturday, never been before, and while we didn't have that long there, did get to go to the Abbey, which we enjoyed. We'd cycled which meant we got to enjoy some beautiful scenery on the way, but it was rather windy on the way back!
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daisymay
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It's an interesting Abbey and also there is good fish for individuals being sold by the river/sea.
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Surfing Madness
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quote: Originally posted by North East Quine: Seriously stormy weather here.
and here....should therefore be perfect essay writing weather, but i'm being distracted by things inside the house instead of outside!
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To The Pain
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Yup, it's our recycling day and all the boxes were blown about so my front grass is littered with bits and pieces that resisted my brief wind and rain blown efforts to corral them before work. There are also panels down from the back fence and a few tree branches. Hopefully last autumn's gales mean that there shouldn't be too many trees vulnerable to coming down.
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daisymay
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On the BBC news of Scotland it seemed there were many places where the water was all around and also where trees blew down. It does sound really bad. Has it affected many of you badly?
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Piglet
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I was speaking to my dad today and he said they'd had 60+mph winds, but in Orkney that's just a peedie bit o' a breeze ...
He judges wind speeds by the top of the lamp-post outside his house - if it's moving about he reckons the wind's over 60mph.
Seriously though, I hope you're all safe.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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Has it been as bad as it's been said in Yorkshire? When it's windy, the trees often come down, not just lots of water around...
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cattyish
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I had to explain to Mr C that having grown up in Caithness, hanging washing out in a howling gale was not a problem for me. It didn't dry, but that's beside the point.
Cattyish
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chive
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I'm coming north of the border on Wednesday - yay. Won't be able to meet as doing a lot of travelling but looks like I'm going to visit here. Has anyone else been there?
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daisymay
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quote: Originally posted by chive: I'm coming north of the border on Wednesday - yay. Won't be able to meet as doing a lot of travelling but looks like I'm going to visit here. Has anyone else been there?
Looks fun - not that I've been there, though.
And something else: I've been wearing today my trousers, Stewart one, which I've had since I was a teenager, and a woman who spoke Scottish (Glasgow-ish) as she walked by me today in London, she said, "That is something that only men wear - you should not be wearing that!" No-one has ever said that to me. And I also had a skirt, MacLean one, that fitted me as a young teenager, but it's gone now. Is it nowadays that people don't have women wearing that sort of trousers? And when I was in Edinburgh, just a little time one day, I saw that there are now short kilts for women! I don't think I'd wear that, as I assume it should be only for men and boys, as the male ones in my family still wear them.
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Piglet
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There was a fashion in the mid-1990s for short kilts for women and I had a couple - I still had almost-good-enough legs in those days ... **sigh**
As for the trousers, my mother-in-law (who's English* and in her 80s) sometimes wears a pair that could be construed as being Black Watch.
* but loves all things Scottish, including me.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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quote: Originally posted by chive: I'm coming north of the border on Wednesday - yay. Won't be able to meet as doing a lot of travelling but looks like I'm going to visit here. Has anyone else been there?
Never been to that particular place, but my uncle and aunt used to live in some posh house near Twynholm! The countryside around Castle Douglas is fabulous and the microbrewery at the lower end of the main street is definitely worth a visit - they make the Selkirk ale among other wonderful beers
Mrs. S, reminiscing ...
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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And again on the news it said there could be flooding in Scotland today. Has it been Ok or awful?
And on Sunday at church my little one (I'm a granny now) wore his kilt and people were impressed as he looks great. He was also in the children's choir - it was all about charity for parents last Sunday.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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We've had some lovely weather here in Aberdeenshire. Too little, too late for our farmers, though.
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North East Quine
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Spoke too soon. It's now coming down in stair-rods.
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daisymay
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Yes, and I saw in pictures on computer that it was very very lots of rain whizzing around. I hope it hasn't caused really awful things happening.
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Sandemaniac
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This is pretty scary - I've visited a couple of times as my ancestors lived in Dura Den, and often wondered what on earth it was like when it was wet - now I know.
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Piglet
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That flooding does look scary. On a nicer note, did any of you see the wonderful aurora earlier this week? There was footage on the Weather Channel here in Canada (Top 5 Videos of the Week, no less ) of a beautiful display in Caithness.
Made me feel quite homesick.
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Sandemaniac
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Ah, piglet! I saw this and I thought of you!
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Cottontail
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I have just come back from a happy afternoon visiting the Mansfield Traquair Centre in Edinburgh, a.k.a. the former Catholic Apostolic Church. The guide told us it is known as "The Sistine Chapel of Edinburgh" - an exaggeration perhaps, but the murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair are a technicolour glory, and are genuinely stunning. Has anyone else seen them?
The Centre is only open one Sunday a month, though private tours can be booked for other times. Something to keep in mind for a shipmeet?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote: Originally posted by Cottontail: Has anyone else seen them?
Back in the days when it was just another redundant church I remember attending some late night Fringe event there. I have to say I recall the murals more distinctly than the act (whatever it was).
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by Sandemaniac: Ah, piglet! I saw this and I thought of you ...
Love it!
Trinity Bay is absolutely beautiful - we've had a couple of mini-breaks up there (once because the local dramatic company was doing Pirates of Penzance - we'll drive for quite a long time for a spot of G&S).
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Wet Kipper
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quote: Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S: my uncle and aunt used to live in some posh house near Twynholm!
My parents have good friends who live in Twynholm. I think their boys (who are older than me) were friends with David Coulthard growing up.
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Cottontail
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quote: Originally posted by Wet Kipper: quote: Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S: my uncle and aunt used to live in some posh house near Twynholm!
My parents have good friends who live in Twynholm. I think their boys (who are older than me) were friends with David Coulthard growing up.
I used to teach in a school not far from Twynholm. The cynical-beyond-his-years comment of one of my 15-year-olds was, "Aye, everyone in Twynholm is David Coulthard's best pal."
(*Not that I doubt that your parents' friends' sons were!)
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North East Quine
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Got a charity Christmas card catalogue through the post. Many of the designs had a Scottish theme. I particularly liked "Christmas Carols at the Kirk" - a drawing of choirboys in red robes, white surplices and white "pie frills" round their necks, standing outside a church door. Are there any kirks with robed choirboys?
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Cottontail
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quote: Originally posted by North East Quine: Got a charity Christmas card catalogue through the post. Many of the designs had a Scottish theme. I particularly liked "Christmas Carols at the Kirk" - a drawing of choirboys in red robes, white surplices and white "pie frills" round their necks, standing outside a church door. Are there any kirks with robed choirboys?
The only one I know of is Paisley Abbey. There is a brief clip of the Boys' Choir here.
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North East Quine
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Thanks, Cottontail! That was lovely. The Christmas card choirboys are a bit frillier than that. Cynical me thinks they've just picked a generic choirboy pic and captioned it "Christmas Carols at the Kirk."
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Cottontail
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I suspect you are right, NEQ. The Kirk can be a bit of a mystery to those outside Scotland.
Mind you, it's a bit of a mystery to those within too.
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North East Quine
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There's also a generic labrador-in-front-of-a-fire entitled "Roaring Scottish Fireside" and a generic two-children-on-a-sledge entitled "First Scottish Snow." However the "Kirk" particularly appealed.
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Cottontail
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They really haven't made much of an effort, have they? The dog in front of the fire could have been a West Highland Terrier. The children in the snow could have been wearing tartan trews.
What's the bet the same cards are available with "Roaring Welsh Fireside" and "First Welsh Snow"?
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daisymay
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The Kirk in London always has a special Saturday coming up to Christmas and there are lots of things for the children to play, (one is exercise and being timed to see who wins, in the service area) and lots to buy in the eating place and they have nice food for lunch and afternoon. It's Crown Court that's existed for many years. I really like it to visit there, and long ago my parents apparently belonged to it when they came to London.
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by North East Quine: Snow! Lots of snow!!
Big kid! You won't be saying that in January.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I won't be saying it next week, if the school bus doesn't run!!
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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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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Alan Cresswell
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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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Jack the Lass
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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
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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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
St Elmo's Fire
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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
St Elmo's Fire
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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
Ordinary decent pagan
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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
Curious beastie
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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.
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