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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The dram's in the glass for the first footer.
Happy New Year.
Firenze
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[ 13. February 2013, 07:31: Message edited by: Spike ]
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Cottontail
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Happy New Year to you too, Firenze - and thank you for the shiny new thread!
Well, I watched the torchlight parade up Biggar High Street and joined the crush for the lighting of the bonfire. Then we retired to an aunt's house for the annual wheeling out of Jackie Bird.
Comment from 9 year old nephew watching the Proclaimers: "Why does that man keep changing his shirt?" ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Piglet
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Happy New Year one and all!
PS Firenze, how's your heid?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
PS Firenze, how's your heid?
Nae bad. Just the one glass of the Kilchoman.
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Increasing age is a bummer, eh, Firenze?
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redunderthebed
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I like deep fried mars bars and anything deep fried i love irn-bru and are a follower of the greatest football club in scotland rangers and i'm of scottish heritage my ancestors are from near kilmarnock according to the family genealogist my mum.
Can i join in?
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Piglet
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Hello, Redunderthebed, and welcome aboard! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I'll leave your football allegiance to one side; my own lie with Inverness Caley Thistle and Cowdenbeath (don't ask)!
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Welease Woderwick
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Host who has nephew and great nephews who are all Rangers fans declines to ask which division the club are now in
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Division 3 and 15 points ahead on top of the table. Not nice what went on but we are on the long road back, speaking of which the 'gers are playing annan tonight if my EPG is correct.
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Barnabas Aus
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Please pray for my young cousin Sarah Louise, a parishioner of St Andrew's Erskine, Dunfermline, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and is to undergo exploratory surgery early in this new year. We only received the news here in Australia today. She and her mum have been having a tough time of it in recent years, and we are just too far away to provide the sort of help we'd like to.
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daisymay
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And every time I see "Scotland" I'll sing it! ![[Biased]](wink.gif) I do love that song!
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Sandemaniac
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Despite being mostly Sassenach, I've managed to get into today's Herald - well, the online version, at least!
If WW1 is of interest, the Shepreth site is worth a look anyway (he says, immodestly).
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Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
Please pray for my young cousin Sarah Louise, a parishioner of St Andrew's Erskine, Dunfermline, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and is to undergo exploratory surgery early in this new year. We only received the news here in Australia today. She and her mum have been having a tough time of it in recent years, and we are just too far away to provide the sort of help we'd like to.
Prayers ascending Barnabus. It's so hard to be far from people at a time like this
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Rareish outing to the city centre today. Keeked in at The Dome to admire their Christmas decor. They even have a snow maker in the roof of the portico, so that you come out into a few flakes twirling down. It was oddly convincing even though it's been about 10C today.
Slightly less enchanted to walk all the way down to the stop on Waverley Bridge only to find that Bank St was still full of funfair and therefore no buses. So I had a bracing climb up Cockburn St to South Bridge.
The town oddly quiet for a Saturday - perhaps everyone did the Sales last week?
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Jack the Lass
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Slightly less enchanted to walk all the way down to the stop on Waverley Bridge only to find that Bank St was still full of funfair and therefore no buses. So I had a bracing climb up Cockburn St to South Bridge.
Those are my bracing climbs every day in the week - until recently I was doing the Cockburn St-Royal Mile thing (I work at the university, near Bristo Square), but have found that walking up Market St towards the Mound and then doubling back onto Bank St means slightly less uphill-ness, so I tend to do that these days. I've seen the fair the last few days and thought how in my early 20s I would have been at the front of the queue for all those rides. These days I don't think I'd dare go anywhere near any of them! Hopefully due to advanced wisdom rather than advanced age.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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There can't be too many city centres that offer the fitness potential of Embra.
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Moo
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Every time I see this thread title I think,
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victory!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Yup. Those are the usual day-to-day choices. At least I didn't call it Floor o' Scotland after that dirgey little number that seems to have taken over as National Song.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
There can't be too many city centres that offer the fitness potential of Embra.
I used to walk up St Michael's Hill in Bristol every day. Actually after a while I cheated and went in the ground floor of the Infirmary by the front door, up the lifts/stairs, out of the 4th floor which is halfway up the hill at the back of the building, and then up Alfred Hill the rest of the way. But the climb was the same (if I took the stairs)! The equivalent for Jack's journey would be going up through the Scotsman Hotel - and I think they'd disapprove.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
There can't be too many city centres that offer the fitness potential of Embra.
You've never been to St. John's, have you?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It fell for several hours yesterday, but wet and soft and not lying. From what I can see of the still crepuscular morning, it looks a bit damp and not at all white.
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Derf
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We had some yesterday morning that lay most of the day but it's all gone now. The sczlet didn't get chance to try out her new sledge.
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daisymay
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And we've had some snow down in London, and it hasn't lasted on the ground, but still all over cars.
I've always loved snow and I still remember having snow and everyone playing with it, in Dundee in the garden, and I was then the littlest one, seeing how teenagers could make snow-human-beings! And of course later we had so much that school was closed and we could go out and play. The roads were impossible for cars and buses.
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Don't think we've had any here- looks like it's been further north and east. I'm guessing folk like NEQuine, cattyish and To the Pain will have the snow at the moment.
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To The Pain
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Yup, big soppy white flakes falling furiously just as everyone was trying to get to work. I wore my snowboots so I have nice warm, dry feet and feel ever so slightly smug. Sadly, a 10-minute walking commute means that I will probably never get to phone in a snow day - my only chance is if it is heavy enough to close the medical school which seems unlikely.
I don't think it will lie too long, the ground's too warm and wet for that and the fall seems to be easing off just now.
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Alan Cresswell
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We woke to some on the ground yesterday, and had a spell of about half an hour with big flakes falling to the delight of the children. The wee lassie happily tried to build a snow man while I cleared the car to get to church - but there was only enough for a small head (a bit bigger than a typical snow ball). The ground is saturated, and so once it stopped actually falling the snow melted pretty quickly and is all gone now.
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Cottontail
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It snowed pretty much continuously all yesterday here in the Southern Uplands. We had 2-3 inches of wet sticky stuff, that beautifully outlined all the trees, and was perfect for snowmen. The niece and nephew constructed one using the novel method of packing buckets with snow and turning them out one on top of the other, so that Mr Snowman had a decidedly flat head.
It's melting a bit now, but there is still a good covering.
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North East Quine
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I was in a snow-free Inverness this morning, and even used the outdoor gym in Whin Park. Turns out my father has more flexible hips than me. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Came home to about an inch of snow.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
It snowed pretty much continuously all yesterday ... 2-3 inches ...
It snowed continuously on Thursday night and Friday here and we got nearly 2 feet.
And a power-cut that lasted 36 hours. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Seriously though, I hope you're all keeping safe.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I'd thought of going out to the art shop today - but a thin, miserable snow has been falling for a bit, and doesn't look like stopping.
Instead, I will embark on an exhilarating round of housework, including putting out the rubbish. We haven't had a green bin uplift in a month, but I'll nevertheless have to jam another sackful in somehow. Plus cardboard, plastic bottles and food.
Whoopee doop.
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Jack the Lass
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I didn't notice it snowing in Edinburgh today (I was indoors apart from a 10 minute constitutional after lunch), but it was certainly cold enough. Very deep blue sky when I was walking round the block though.
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I'm coming to Glasgow at the weekend for my niece's second birthday. So glad I bought train tickets instead of driving up. Trains are infinitely more comfortable in snowdrifts.
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North East Quine
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Only a couple of inches snow here, but it's dry and powdery, and the wind has been creating snowdrifts. So no school transport and a day off for my quinie today.
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Cottontail
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Wee Andy's on a roll. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
Wee Andy's on a roll.
Indeed. I think the balance has shifted where Federer is concerned. Djokovic - it's more even.
Re snow: it's been coming down steadily all afternoon - but too wet to lie. I'm hoping it gives over by 6, as we're out to a Burns Supper (A Darling giving the Immortal Memory).
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Jack the Lass
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It's been snowing all day, and settling, here in Stirling. I'd already decided to work from home today, it soon became clear it was a good decision. It's very pretty, but the local roads look horrible - wet slush which you just know will be ice-solid by morning.
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North East Quine
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I found a uniquely horribly Scottish name in a list of C19th teachers today - Leslieina. Why she couldn't have been called Lesley, I don't know.
Sleety weather here, cold and miserable.
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Cottontail
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
I found a uniquely horribly Scottish name in a list of C19th teachers today - Leslieina. Why she couldn't have been called Lesley, I don't know.
I have a friend who had an Aunt Alexanderina. Not even 'Alexandrina', but the full 6 syllables. It seems to have died out as a fashion, but for a time seems to have been the final recourse of the disappointed father who had hoped in vain for a son and namesake. How many old ladies do you know called 'Ina'?
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Moo
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I believe that one of Queen Victoria's names was Alexandrina.
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Piglet
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... How many old ladies do you know called 'Ina'?
I had a great-aunt Ina (she was a Georgina, which isn't so bad). I've come across a couple of Thomasinas (one wasn't much older than me, and I'm only 50), and I was in college with a girl called Willina (also now in her early 50s).
I wonder if Leslieina's problem was that the name Lesley hadn't been thought of at the time?
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North East Quine
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Burns wrote a poem about "Bonnie Lesley" so it was a known name.
And Alexanderina (full six syllables) was on our short-list for our first-born, but had been downgraded to Alexandrina on the final short-list. Only the fact of having had a boy stopped us from having our own wee Alexandrina! It's an excellent name and not to be compared to Leslieina in any way!
I have known a Hectorina, an Andrewina, a couple of Georginas, a couple of Williaminas, two Thomasinas(both known as Zena), and was related to two - wait for it - Marshallinas.
In the C19th a proud father named Archibald in the next village named his son and daughter Archibald and Archiebella.
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Uncle Pete
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Thomasina and Willhemina were fairly common names back in the day. Georgina was still common in my day (I knew two and later worked with one)
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My dad's family had an Albert in each generation. However the last in a large family in generation above him had to be called Alberta. Dad was given Albert as his first name but hated it and used the second name.
Auntie Alberta hated her name as much as dad did his, changed it to Jennie when she was in late 60s.
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Meg the Red
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I recently spoke with a 60-ish lady named Ralphina. While I do not as a rule advocate parricide, IMO any poor girl saddled with that moniker would be justified in giving Mum and Dad a bit of the old Lizzie Borden treatment.
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Jengie jon
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Thomasina and Willhemina were fairly common names back in the day. Georgina was still common in my day (I knew two and later worked with one)
The youngest Georgina I know is under ten!
Jengie
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Moo
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My husband had a relative named Albertine. She was born around the beginning of the twentieth century.
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