My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Community discussion   » All Saints   » Land of the Metrical Psalm - Scotland 2018 Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: Land of the Metrical Psalm - Scotland 2018 Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        May I wish all my fellow Scots all the best for the new year, and hope your heids aren't too fragile! Sandemaniac, in case you're interested both the Boys' Ba's (Christmas and New Year) went up ( ), and both Men's went Doon ( ) -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Celtic Knotweed Shipmate # 13008 Posted                        Heid fine - we had a comparatively early night, getting back to the Parental Knotweeds' abode by 2am! A late lunch today involving Normandy pheasant and plum pie (pheasants from our neighbour, apples and plums from parental trees), and we wandered home about 6pm. Getting up for w*rk on the 3rd will be a shock! The Ba' results have been yelled across the room to Sandemaniac, congratulations to the Men , commiserations to the Boys . He was making comments about the Ladies one being too dangerous to ever be played again... -------------------- My little sister is riding 100k round London at night to raise money for cancer research donations here if you feel so inclined. Posts: 664 | From: between keyboard and chair | Registered: Sep 2007  |  IP: Logged Cottontail Shipmate # 12234 Posted                          I had the quietest Hogmanay in years. I usually go to the Biggar Bonfire for a bit of pagan festivity, but the car has a minor fault that makes it illegal to drive, and the garage doesn't open till tomorrow. So I lit the fire, binge-watched past episodes of 'Line of Duty', then toasted in the new year with some left over Bucks Fizz. -------------------- "I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence." Posts: 2377 | From: Scotland | Registered: Jan 2007  |  IP: Logged North East Quine Curious beastie # 13049 Posted                        My head is fine, it's my stomach that is aching. My mother produced vast quantities of delicious food over Hogmonay and I may have over-eaten.... I had a nice walk through the Ness Islands yesterday, but even a bit of exercise in a bracing wind wasn't enough to reduce the general stuffed feeling. I got a crime novel set in Inverness for Christmas - Shadow Man by Margaret Kirk - and I thought it described Inverness very well. Lots of mentions of Harry Gow dream rings, traffic backing up at the Millburn roundabout etc. Posts: 6414 | From: North East Scotland | Registered: Oct 2007  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        We had some friends over for supper and to take in the New Year; I made haggis and D. made clapshot, and we also had a small baked ham and braised red cabbage, washing it all down with copious quantities of wine (some of it fizzy). A very jolly way to celebrate the season - hope to do it again! And, judging by the slightness of my hangover, it must have been good wine.* * It was mostly New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, so it was very good indeed. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0