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Let’s fill the Hill

Posted on September 03, 2013 by

Calton Hill is probably our favourite place in all of Edinburgh. You can see everything from its slopes – Princes Street, Arthur’s Seat, the Forth Bridges, Leith, the Castle, the whole city. It’s also, now we come to look at it, just about the worst conceivable place in the entire capital to hold a rally, but it’s too late to worry about that now.

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Morag

I just mentioned the march to a work colleague who is very pro-indy but didn’t march last year.  He’s coming.

MajorBloodnok

@Jeannie
 
It’s just a hobby.  Although my controversial editorship of Basters and Bastermen has been much remarked upon in the trade press.

Dave McEwan Hill

Stephen Boswell 
Hello, Stephen. So you will. If I’m not mistaken you’re on the big bus from Dunoon

Jeannie

@major bloodnok
 
It’s just a hobby.  Although my controversial editorship of Basters and Bastermen has been much remarked upon in the trade press.
 
Oh….I think I’ve got a copy of that…  is it the Master Basters Weekly?

MajorBloodnok

@Jeannie said: Oh….I think I’ve got a copy of that…  is it the Master Basters Weekly?
 
I’m not sure, I’ll have to consult our archivist Onan_the_Librarian, although I think he’s busy at the moment because a bibliophile was going through his back catalogue last week and afterwards he found that all the pages have been stuck together.
 
Which pub did you say we were meeting at?

Jeannie

@major bloodnok
 
I hate it when that happens.  BTP says it’s the Albanach.

Dave McEwan Hill

Major
 
Dorothy Parker called her canary Onan because it spilled its seed upon the ground

Conan_the_Librarian

@MajorBloodnok.
Yes, the Albanach.
Saves you beating about the bush…

 
 

ianbrotherhood

@Morag-
 
You know, I was thinking it was an awfully big area to try to fill.  But when you compare the flat bit on top to the area in and around the Ross Bandstand which we easily filled last time, it’s only four or five times bigger, at most.
It’s a lot, but it’s not completely impossible.
 
Was this intended for the Jackie Baillie thread(s)?

AlexMcI

@Ianbrotherhood, quality mate, that really made me laugh.

ianbrotherhood

@Alex Mcl-
 
Hope to see you on the Hill mister – I’ll be with the SSP on the march, then doing my own thing, hope to find all ye Wingers as and when.

AlexMcI

@ianbrotherhood, I will be there mate. Mum, dad, sister , fiancée and a train load of kids are coming this time. Will see you there for sure.

Ruby Tuesday

Re A Parking Tip
Please ignore parking tip that I posted earlier.  I drove past Abbeyhill yesterday and there were roadworks going on entrance to Abbeyhill closed and bus stop out of commission.

wee folding bike

Okay, it’s officially going to be first-come-first-served on the badges 😀
Badges? We don’t need no steenkeen badges.

handclapping

Bugger. The Dr sucked his teeth at me and said “We’ll see. Come back in a fortnight.” So its mibbe aye, mibbe naw. Bugger. 🙁

Archie [not Erchie]

@ Major – Albanach it is with my pelmet. Curtains? Indeed!

HandandShrimp

One pub is not going to be enough is it? So where is our rallying point?

Jeannie

@archie (not erchie)
 
Major –Albanach it is with my pelmet. Curtains? Indeed!
 
Archie – that Major would get get ye hung!

Archie [not Erchie]

@ Jeannie – I just knew you would spot that post. 🙂 I love a woman with vision.
Wait for it…….should have gone to…….. 🙂

Jeannie

@Archie (not Erchie)
 
Wait for it…….should have gone to……..
 
That’s funny…..that’s what Mr. Jeannie keeps saying!

Archie [not Erchie]

On the Roll Call thread Rev Stu says : ‘Badges will be on a first come first served basis’
I had to smile, in fact I chortled. The responses will probably break 200 tonight and when folk talk about bringing doubledecker bus loads, families and friends, unicycles and budgies I think the Rev is pickled in his Cussons Imperial Lather. How many WOS badges has he got? I think his goose is charcoal, his faculties are suffering under the relentless feeding of the hungry 1000 Wingers.
 
 

Morag

Can’t he get more badges?  It’s still a fortnight off.

Jimbo

Glad to see WOS on the list of groups attending this year’s march & rally.
 
I reckon it could turn out to be the largest group there.
 
link to independencerally.com

Morag

Just compare and contrast this to last year’s dismal attitude….
 
link to wingsoverscotland.com

Archie [not Erchie]

@ Morag – Yes of course the Rev can do that. My post was tongue in cheek 🙂 and I hope that the children get the badges and remember the 21st for the rest of their lives.

Morag

To be honest, my attitude hasn’t really changed. I still think these events are unnecessary hostages to fortune unless you can get HUGE numbers – and if it’s pishing down and a lot of folk are put off it could still look bad – but I see the value of people getting together a bit more.
 
Look, this is for us.  There’s a feeling starting to happen, and I think you have to be here to feel it.  I know how it is.  I went through 1992 to 1999 living in bloody Sussex.  You’ll understand when you get here.  There isn’t a morning I wake up now that I’m not glad I chucked up the Sussex job and applied for this job near Edinburgh in June of 2006.  Just to be breathing the air of Scotland at this time is a precious thing.  You need to do it, even if it’s just for the weekend.
 
And I will trample the children into the gutter for one of these badges.

Jimbo

I want one.

Morag

Stu, shouldn’t you make the “Roll Call” thread a sticky for a bit?

Morag

Sorry. Posted unthinkingly in the Roll Call thread. Please to delete.

Arbroath 1320

As per instructions from Stu, www.wingsoverscotland.com/roll-call/ , I am posting here, I don’t want to endure the mighty wrath of Stu, unnecessarily you understand. 😆
 
We were planning to attend the march along with my partner’s eldest daughter and three year old son. Unfortunately a family problem has raised it’s ugly head that we may need our attendance. As a result we will probably not know if we are able to attend until the last minute. 
 
To everyone who is definitely going have a great day we’ll be thinking of everyone if we can’t get there. If we can make it then we’ll be there looking out for the Wings contingent! 😆

Morag

Aw, Arb, you had to call off last year at the last minute too, didn’t you?  That’s a real shame.

Anne McMillan

#indyrally #letsfillthehill – next week at this time we will be filling Calton Hill folks. Please share. http://www.independencerally.com – Tweet, FB, Email, comment in online newspapers lets make this amazing.


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