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Cottontail
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So ... how was your Hogmanay?
I was at the Biggar Bonfire ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) again this year, though contrary to scurrilous rumours, I was not dancing naked. I was, however, cheerfully helping to block one of the main routes south from Edinburgh.
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Piglet
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I wish all my fellow-Scots a happy and prosperous New Year, and I hope that by now you're all feeling a bit better. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Just in case there are any other Orcadians on board, I'm delighted to report that both the New Year's Day Ba's went in the right direction.
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
My Better Half won't be quite so pleased - he's an Uppie.
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daisymay
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It was on the pictures in Edinburgh, showing very dark and it must have been a not so nice time and place as usual.
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Cottontail
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Actually, it was a nice night, daisymay. Hogmanay was a day of calm amidst some pretty stormy weather, and the night was dry, quite warm, and not too windy. We did well. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Firenze
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Saw in the New a Year in a back garden (not my own) in Portobello. Got to bed about 2 am. Made a low-effort dinner tonight consisting of a wildly-reduced M&S ready stuffed duck, with a bottle of Comte de Brismand from Lidl. Watched the new Sherlock.
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Piglet
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I was really pleased to learn via Facebook that the bloke who runs Pentland Ferries, the short-sea ro-ro ferry from Caithness to Orkney, who was in my class at school, has been appointed OBE in the New Year honours list for services to transport. It's particularly well-deserved as his ferry provided a life-line when the supposed "life-line" service was out of commission (but still getting a humungous subsidy from the Scottish government).
I think it's the first time anyone from my class has got a gong - well done to him!
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daisymay
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I'm glad to know that it was dry in Edinburgh that special night, when thousands take enjoying it then!
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Jack the Lass
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What lovely photos Curiosity killed... - I hope you enjoyed your stay this side of the border!
Our new year was very quiet, we did stay up as the elf lass was due a feed so going to bed seemed a bit pointless till that was done. So at the precise moment we had Jools Holland on in the background and a little girl burping along to Auld Lang Syne.
So far in 2014 we've not actually left the house, due to the beautiful (!) weather, but it does seem dry today so I might try and take her round the block just to blow away a few cobwebs.
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Same from me - thank you very you much for the lovely photos of Oban - one of my favourite places.
Weather is lovely in Edinburgh today.
Happy New Year !
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North East Quine
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....and on the subject of cutty sarks.....two of my allegedly best friends have given me a voucher for a "boudoir photoshoot" for my forthcoming 50th birthday. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Just what every fat woman wants for her birthday! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Surfing Madness
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Happy New Year everyone. Just back from a couple of days in Glasgow, including a trip to the panto. Hope everyone else has been enjoying the beginning of 2014 as much as me!
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Piglet
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Paisley, Peebles and Dumfries all made it on to the "wild weather from around the world" segment on the Canadian Weather Channel yesterday, with what looked like a lot more water than they probably wanted.
Hope you're all keeping safe.
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Cottontail
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
....and on the subject of cutty sarks.....two of my allegedly best friends have given me a voucher for a "boudoir photoshoot" for my forthcoming 50th birthday.
Goodness! Will you go for it, do you think? They say it can be quite liberating ...
Oh, and while we are at it, you are not fat. Just not. Womanly, that is all. Could photograph well. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
You'll find old Gok Wan episodes on 4OD. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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North East Quine
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I will do it, but only if I can think of a way of making it "me" rather than conforming to a standardised idea of what makes a woman look sexy. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Actually, a distant relative had some Hollywood shots taken in the 1920s, when she was in her mid / late 30s. If I could be made-up to resemble her, and re-create the poses, I'd go for that like a shot.
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Originally posted by piglet:
My Better Half won't be quite so pleased - he's an Uppie.
Goodness - who'd ha' suspected Piglet of being in a mixed marriage?
NEQ - isn't the word you are looking for rubenesque?
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
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Originally posted by piglet:
My Better Half won't be quite so pleased - he's an Uppie.
Goodness - who'd ha' suspected Piglet of being in a mixed marriage?
Not only that - he's English. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I spent Hogmanay at the Stonehaven Fireballs festival (my most dramatic photograph can be found here) with hot whisky punch, followed by some first-footing with impromptu ceilidh dancing and home to bed around 3am.
The weather here seems to be alternating between dry and miserable so my flatmate and I are working our way through the boardgames, DVDs and chocolate we received over the festive season. A number of term-time activities won't be kicking off until February either, so I am indulging my inner sloth.
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daisymay
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To The Pain,
how was it for today? Was it decent and not lots of water there? Are you managing to keep decently warm?
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daisymay
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There was a whole hour on the TV this evening, and it was really good, about where there was plenty of hills and many animals and insects and birds. Did you lot watch it too? It was at places I've been a long time ago.
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To The Pain
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Sorry daisymay, I missed your post back on the 7th - living halfway up a hill and in a fairly sheltered estate there weren't any problems with flooding (bar the occaisional giant puddle) near me. The wind did blow my kitchen window open and break the catch though, so it's bungee'd to the sink awaiting repair!
Now we've shifted from the wind-down after Hogmanay to the wind-up to Burns' Night. My girlfriend is giving the response to the Toast to the Lassies and has been sending her counterpart pictures of pieces of toaast all week to remind him that it would be handy if she could see his toast in order to respond to it! While I'm not keen on arbitrarily separating humanity into genders and the wild generalising that comes to it, I did rather enjoy the year that I got to give The Response.
Anyone else toasting a haggis on Saturday?
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An English friend is bravely hosting a small Burns' Supper on Saturday night, so I'll be in Edinburgh for that!
Re. speeches: I learned the hard way that the minister should never have anything to do either with the Toast to the Lassies or with the Reply. In a previous church I had spent the whole year breaking down gender stereotypes, only to find myself plunged straight back into them at the church Burns' Supper. I couldn't even do the usual cheerful insults, and risqué jokes were definitely off limits!
I have vowed to confine myself to the Immortal Memory from now on. Luckily, I have up my sleeve an Immortal Memory I wrote in the style of William McGonagall. Went down a treat!
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Sandemaniac
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There are written records of ancestors of mine who could conceivably have seen a glacier in the Cairngorms! If you'll excuse the obvious pun, how cool is that?
It's a pity Embra is so far away, because I'd love to see the mammoth exhibition, though if it rains when we are in the Lake District it'll only be err... three hours away!
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Firenze
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McSween's haggis was on offer at Morrisons when we nipped in for a post few-day-away shop. So we will have an in-house Burns Supper sometime next week, when I can get round to organising a neep and a tattie.
We occasionally go to a formal do - but none will ever eclipse the one, just before the actual implementation of devolution, where Donald Dewar gave the Immortal Memory. It was both hilarious and deeply felt.
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For some reason our crew don't usually have an Immortal Memory, just the address to the haggis and the toast and response to the lassies. My Response was delivered two days before I handed in my PhD, written the morning of the supper (although most of my googling had been done beforehand) and reflected the fact that I was busy writing a thesis. It had section numbers and headings that I read out as I went ("three point two point one" was particularly satisfying) and probably constituted the most amusing thing about my toast.
This year all I have to do is provide some cake, but there's a chance they'll make me sing.
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We've got the Cathedral Vestry post-Christmas pot-luck this evening. When I was thinking about what I'd bring, I suddenly remembered how close it was to the end of the haggis season, and decided that I'd make one, which I haven't done for ages (you can't buy them over here, but they're dead easy to make). It's now in the fridge ready to be baked, and D's in charge of the clapshot.
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Firenze
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At the same memorable Burns Night, there was a speaker who'd held various diplomatic postings. She was in Zurich, and attempting to make haggis. Her first difficulty was the butchers who explained they didn't sell that kind of meat for human consumption. Eventually, however, she managed, and had it boiling in a pan with the lid tied down to stop it drying out. Only to hear one appalled guest witness the rattling pot and whisper to another "My god, I think it's still alive!"
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Having spent last night at a college Burns' Supper, I have only one thing to say this morning.
Oooooh, ma heid!
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Back from decorating our church hall and setting the tables for tonight's Supper. I am waitressing, and Full of Chips is addressing the Haggis.
Alas, Chips' kilt has unaccountably shrunk and he is having to hire one. I have no sartorial issues, as I have to wear black trousers or skirt and a white blouse.
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Originally posted by Surfing Madness:
... I've decided the Scots are even crazier than I thought!
It never occurred to me that you weren't one of us ...
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Having spent last night at a college Burns' Supper, I have only one thing to say this morning.
Oooooh, ma heid!
AG
The whole North East family have missed church this morning for similar reasons, although ours was the church Burns Supper. Personally, I blame the sherry trifle.
It was an excellent night! 84 people, which is about the most we can have seated at tables in the church hall, the haggis piped in, great haggis, amazing sherry trifle, homemade tablet, a dramatic recitation of Tam o' Shanter, singing, fiddle music, piano music, accordion music, speeches, and then the poetry-in-motion which is the church ladies clearing up and washing the dishes.
There was a point last night when I was looking round and I thought "I love everybody in this church!" Mind you, that might have been the after-effects of the sherry trifle.
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Firenze
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Ah yes, who can forget Burns Address to a Sherry Trifle ?
Wee Sleekit, cowerin', timorous jeelie...
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Originally posted by piglet:
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... I've decided the Scots are even crazier than I thought!
It never occurred to me that you weren't one of us ...
I am crazy.....but (whispers quietly) I'm English
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Piglet
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That's quite all right, SM - so is my Better Half.
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To The Pain
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We had a good night with fifty-something folk, girlfriend's Response went down very well and I even sang a wee song in between some of the dancing. Took a great number of photographs so now everyone is busy liking them on facebook.
We did, however, use pretty much every table in the building and only just had enough room. In the summer we are due to host around 60 French and Italian dancers in addition to ourselves so now we've got to come up with a solution for that!
Then yesterday, when any sensible individual would have turned over and gone back to sleep after seeing how the rain was lashing down, we were out MCing an afternoon of social Scottish Coutry dancing. Everything went down well at that too, so overall it was a successful weekend all round. Now I just need to wake up enough to get a pile of things done at work today.
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Ah yes, who can forget Burns Address to a Sherry Trifle ?
Wee Sleekit, cowerin', timorous jeelie...
Pardon my Sassenach ignorance (despite an Embra-born Father) but is trifle a part of the Burns' Night standard? Must it be sherry, because Mrs Sioni makes it with brandy and I prefer that.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Ah yes, who can forget Burns Address to a Sherry Trifle ?
Wee Sleekit, cowerin', timorous jeelie...
Pardon my Sassenach ignorance (despite an Embra-born Father) but is trifle a part of the Burns' Night standard? Must it be sherry, because Mrs Sioni makes it with brandy and I prefer that.
Yes and no. Cock-a-leekie, then the haggis, neeps and tatties is standard - but after that it gets a bit vague. Cranachan, clootie dumpling or various things featuring 'whisky cream' turn up, but I don't think any one thing is canonical.
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There was a trifle at our Burns' Supper one year that had to have 'Don't Eat Trifle and Drive' signs posted prominently around it. There was port in the jelly, advocaat in the custard and whisky in the cream - in such quantities that more than a very tiny portion would probably have put you over the drink-drive limit. Very tasty but decidedly lethal.
This year, no trifle, but a veritable mountain of cheese and, courtesy of my girlfriend and I, a Cake.
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TTP, that is a deeply cool cake! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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To The Pain
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Why thank you, Piglet. It's really just two swiss rolls (one dyed red) cut to a third of their usual width and rolled around each other then stood on top of a disk of more sponge and topped with another. Some judicious trimming and liberal application of ganache et voila!
To be fair, the idea and most of the execution was my girlfriend's. I was Executive in Charge of Oven Timings, Chief Sponge Measurer and Sprinkles Consultant.
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
It's a rotten job, Sprinkles Consultant, but I suppose someone has to do it ...
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It's the big vote today. Time to put up this wee video again?
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Yes! That was really great to watch and see places and people and the singing too!
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Sandemaniac
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Of course, if the vote goes against God's will, it will rain for ever more up there just like it has down here.
But will anyone actually notice that?
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Of course, if the vote goes against God's will, it will rain for ever more up there just like it has down here.
AG
If rain is a sign of God's judgement I dread to think what Scotland has done in the past!
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