Let’s fill the Hill
Posted on
September 03, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
Wings Over Scotland will be there. Come and join us. We’ve a flag and everything.
Regardless of how we dissect and re-interpret the polls, regardless of the media spin, manipulation and lies, is it still not bloody depressing that – on the surface – so few of our countrymen and women want to run their own affairs?
I met 3 such last week and the idea was anathema to them, dismissed as ‘people won’t vote for that’. That they had little idea what ‘that’ was did not matter. Perhaps these people are – yet – a significant majority.
Keep at ’em, Training Day, and keep smiling!
I have a friend who claims to be a firm NO but when I asked him if he would be funding the £9000 a year University tuition fees for my kids if we voted No, he was more than a little taken back.
“I hadn’t thought of it like that”, he said.
Minds will be focused as we near the big day 🙂
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@Training Day
Regardless of how we dissect and re-interpret the polls, regardless of the media spin, manipulation and lies, is it still not bloody depressing that – on the surface – so few of our countrymen and women want to run their own affairs?
I met 3 such last week and the idea was anathema to them, dismissed as ‘people won’t vote for that’. That they had little idea what ‘that’ was did not matter. Perhaps these people are – yet – a significant majority.
When people are confronted with change they usually reject it off hand at first. I think it is a natural reaction. If they are saying the same thing in a years’ time then that is different. I reckon the Yes campaign has still got a lot to do in changing that reaction to change.
@Caesar!lha,
Ha Ha!
@Bugger the Panda
I was the donor, the surrogate.
Always the bridesmaid, eh? 🙂
Whose the Daddy then!!
boom Boom
Got an extra bamboo ration for it
@Bugger the Panda
You are well and truly the Daddy and no mistake 🙂
Hey Jeannie
The Caesar!nach in High Street for the Panda Clan pre march.
Oh dear, what a pity…
Still £150,000 too much.
GMB cuts funds it gives Labour from £1.2m to £150,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23955577
B(TP) you are going to have to change your name to “Inseminate (the Panda)” if you can prove paternity, or to be more precise, “pandernity”.
For anyone coming from Dundee, I’ve just checked the Scotrail website, and you can get a return for £13.80 if you book two singles. A return is about double!
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.
@major bloodnok
B(TP) you are going to have to change your name to “Inseminate (the Panda)” if you can prove paternity, or to be more precise, “pandernity”.
Well, you would know, right enough. If my memory serves me right, you’ve got “form” on this – I vaguely remember something about a horse and a turkey baster, some time back? When it comes to advice on artificial insemination, BTP, I think you’ll find the major’s your man 🙂
Jeannie
Only for a truss of bamboo and the naming rights.
BtP
@BTP
Yes, I’m inclined to think a truss is exactly what you’ll be needing if you get into that game!
Jeannie
Promises, promises.
Caesar!nach !
@BTP?
I’ll endeavour to be there. Are you on the bell?
am I on the bell?
Bugger aff!
Now you know
@BTP
Fair enough – cannae blame a lassie fur tryin’ tho!
I’ll be there with my brood. Boswells for Independence!
I just mentioned the march to a work colleague who is very pro-indy but didn’t march last year. He’s coming.
@Jeannie
It’s just a hobby. Although my controversial editorship of Basters and Bastermen has been much remarked upon in the trade press.
Stephen Boswell
Hello, Stephen. So you will. If I’m not mistaken you’re on the big bus from Dunoon
@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?
@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?
@major bloodnok
I hate it when that happens. BTP says it’s the Caesar!nach.
Major
Dorothy Parker called her canary Onan because it spilled its seed upon the ground
@MajorBloodnok.
Yes, the Caesar!nach.
Saves you beating about the bush…
@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)?
@Ianbrotherhood, quality mate, that really made me laugh.
@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.
@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.
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.
Okay, it’s officially going to be first-come-first-served on the badges 😀
Badges? We don’t need no steenkeen badges.
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. 🙁
@ Major – Caesar!nach it is with my pelmet. Curtains? Indeed!
One pub is not going to be enough is it? So where is our rallying point?
@archie (not erchie)
Major –Caesar!nach it is with my pelmet. Curtains? Indeed!
Archie – that Major would get get ye hung!
@ Jeannie – I just knew you would spot that post. 🙂 I love a woman with vision.
Wait for it…….should have gone to…….. 🙂
@Archie (not Erchie)
Wait for it…….should have gone to……..
That’s funny…..that’s what Mr. Jeannie keeps saying!
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.
Can’t he get more badges? It’s still a fortnight off.
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.
http://independencerally.com/main/?page_id=1719
Just compare and contrast this to last year’s dismal attitude….
http://wingsoverscotland.com/if-nobody-came/
“Just compare and contrast this to last year’s dismal attitude….”
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.
“Can’t he get more badges? It’s still a fortnight off.”
Four-week delivery time. Plus I like the idea of there only being 100. Because so long as a hundred of us turn up in time…
(I’ve no idea how they’re going to look. They should be quite fancy, but they weren’t cheap and I didn’t want to get hundreds sight unseen.)
@ 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.
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.
I want one.
Stu, shouldn’t you make the “Roll Call” thread a sticky for a bit?
Sorry. Posted unthinkingly in the Roll Call thread. Please to delete.
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! 😆
Aw, Arb, you had to call off last year at the last minute too, didn’t you? That’s a real shame.
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