Smallaxe, glad to see ye posting away and that you are feeling a bit better…to you and everyone else, season greetings…thank fuck that’s aw air way 🙂
Liz g
7 years ago
Marie Clark @ 1.36
Hi Marie isn’t it funny how much we look at catching up on Wing’s as a bit of peace and sanity.
I don’t think any Yoons blog has the same effect…They all seem …..em…Upset and mad about something.
Wee shame that right enough…. LOL
Seasons Greetings, Marie, I’m feeling a lot better and like you, we have been spending time with our family (grandchildren especially), it reminds us who’s future we are fighting for.
I’m sure Nana will be back shortly, I miss her links in the mornings but at the same time I was thinking selfishly, great! Nana’s hands will be well rested, plenty of links for Me.Then I thought, no, Nana will be cooking, cleaning and baking, probably for her own family, it was then that I realised that it was not I who was being selfish, it was that family! some people!
🙂
I’m sure liz will see this and hopefully Nana. The whole “Yes Movement” could not exist without you, that’s obvious to anyone.Women are better communicators than men, they are at times more compassionate and some may say that women are “too emotional”. When people are starving or dying in wars, I expect someone to be emotional, that’s what’s missing!
I could go on and on with this subject, it has been a personal bugbear of mine for a long time Marie but I won’t, not today anyway.
I am aware that I will not be the only man who thinks like I do, about balance and equality for all people, regardless of race or sex.
I would just like, if I may, to Thank all of you, Scotswomen of birth or choice for everything that you have done for Scotland, not just for the Independence movement but for Scotsmen like myself, who know that our dear Mothers went hungry to make sure that her bairns were fed.
I bow to you all “Daughters of Eve” my admiration for you all has no border.
Peace and Love to All of Scotlands lovely Lassies
(This does not apply to the ones I need not name)
LoL Smallaxe, thank fuck fur that, thought ye wur losin’ it there for a minute 😉
Stoker
7 years ago
K1,
At the end of each WOS article, just prior to the comments starting, there is a greenish PDF button. If i download the articles to my documents and then, according to their categories, i place them into their respective zip files, will this be sufficient to keep and protect each article for as long as needed?
The other option is doing something similar but via using the archive.is facility then into their respective zip files. The only difference i can see is that the first method cuts out the comments but as far as i know the archive.is method captures the comments as well as the article.
What’s your opinion on these?
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
Hi Stoker.
Re: “Archiving”.
I did a post earlier this month about “archive.org”. You can read it at this link:-
and it returned a calendar of all the captures of the Wings site it has done. The first was on 4th January, 2013. You can explore each year at the top of the page, and it gives you a calendar, showing all the captures circled in blue, in that year. Just click on the blue circle and you will see the main WOS page that was captured.
You can click on the links on the page. It seems to have been further on in 2013 when the archive got the links sorted out so you see a topic’s page, with all the comments btl.
I suggest you read my first link above (to the comment I posted) then explore.
K1
7 years ago
Well big part of Wings is comments, they too have a lot of information in them which would be lost just saving as PDF, so personally ah favour the archive.is option, as it retains all comments…forever…and ever…and ever…
I attempted from an archived copy of a wings article to ‘download zip’ from the archived page itself, duly went into my files on computer, but had to strip out miscellaneous files that came with it, logos etc, and the ‘index’ page has the article but no images and sidebar links all gone too. So not too sure on the zipping of stuff, think you’re more advanced than me on that one Stoker.
If you can zip file, then zip the archived version not the pdf. That way, yes you will have them where you want to store them rather than on the browser bookmarks folders, but I would keep the bookmark folders too, just for ease of dissemination when online. That’s aw av goat 🙂
K1
7 years ago
Thanks BDTT, will check out too… 🙂
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
BTW: if you click on a link on a Wings main page at”archive.org”, you may get an error message saying that it doesn’t have that page archived. It then gives you the option to click to have the page archived.
Handy stuff!
Stoker
7 years ago
Brian & K1
So much to do and so little time to do it. Muchas gracias amigos!
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
BTW2: the other handy thing about “archive.org” is when you go to a page you have bookmarked and find that it’s no longer there (usually ‘Error 404’).
If you paste the web address into “archive.org” for a search, you may find the page archived. This happened a few months ago with a page that Rev Stu had sought. I was able to give him the “archive.org” link.
chasanderson200
7 years ago
BDTT 7:36
Event noted, transport and hotel booked so I can have a few shandies without rushing home with a skinful.
Marie Clark
7 years ago
Smallaxe, nae bother, your very welcome. I’ve been busy “squaring up the hoose” efter a’ the family went hame. It’s brilliant tae see them a’ the gither at this time o’ year especially.
I’m very pleased I’m no a celebrity or I’d be getting worried. I see poor Carrie Fisher has died now. Only a few days left of 2016. I’ll be pleased to see the back of it.
Fred
7 years ago
@ Tinto, Burns of course supported his hero Thomas Muir but had a family to feed & had eventually to keep his heid doon due to his job in the excise. When bevvied Burns was apt to show his true colours, which he regretted greatly when sober as Botany Bay could have been the upshot. One of his Dumfries buddies with republican sympathies was a radical doctor called James Mundel, I wonder if?………
I think that there are a lot of us will be glad to see the back of this year, Marie.I worry about some young and not so young people who want to be “Famous”, for too many, fame becomes a curse if they can’t handle it.I’m happy to be just a dad and a grandfather, that is fame enough for me.
It’s great to have you back again, your links are the Gift that I have been looking forward to, sorry I missed you on the main thread this morning but I had to take my daughter to work and leave my wife to look after the two grandchildren.I wonder how many of us grandparents have to do this, there must be thousands of us.
I hope you saw my post to Marie Clark on this thread at 4:38pm, for you and all our other ladies.I bet you had a great Christmas, running about feeding people, as I’m sure you were.
Kettle’s on and links to read, a hug in a mug, Smashing!
Peace, Love and Happiness to You and Your Family
Billy
Hope you had a lovely Christmas. No turkey left you say, I’m hoping to finish mine today. Making a turkey and ham pie, my own favourite.
I’m back for a couple of days Liz. We will be visiting with friends and family on the 30th until around the 4th or 5th so no links on those days. Blimey I’ll need a holiday after this holiday lol!
@Smallaxe
Sadly I have no grandchildren, both my sons are too career minded and I doubt that will change anytime soon. They like their freedom to do as they please, go where they please and have to please no one. I get told ‘plenty time Mam] when I hint about family ties, they laugh at me for being ‘old fashioned’
But they are young and when the right person comes along….
Hug in a mug, I like that. I just read your post to Marie, beautiful sentiment Billy.
Scott
7 years ago
Calls are being made to speed up work on the upgrade of Berriedale Braes in Caithness.
The notorious section of the A9 has been the scene of several tragedies over the years.
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant has written to Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, following reports that work has now started on the design for the project after the publication of the findings of a local public inquiry
Hypocrisy from Ms Grant as she and her party did nothing about this in all the years they were in power,see below.
Rhoda has represented the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 to 2003 and then from 2007 to the present day.
Liz g
7 years ago
Hi Nana
Enjoy your well deserved break Nana.
We do miss you but our moaning is very much tounge in cheek.
The main problem is that I come across as totally well informed about current affairs… Because I am reading your links. So when there’s no links I am a bit lost.
So wish I had you a million years ago at school.
As a cheat sheet you are second to none…. LOL
Anyhoo all the best,and, have a good one when it comes. X
What you say does not surprise me, these people will always try to denigrate or take credit for things that they had played no part in.Rev Stu has it at the top of every page: “There’s no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
This woman will either complain or try to weasel herself in to take some credit but you have outed her and her Party’s inaction over the years, so she will probably stick to complaining.
Peace Always
Marie Clark
7 years ago
Hi Nana, we missed you, hope you had a good time.We’re into the turkey soup and a curry to finish the blooming thing off.
I’ve been commenting on the main thread about the new BBC heid bummer’s article in the National. Disnae inspire any confidence at all.
Sometimes I despair for Scotland, and what sort of country that my three lovely grandaughters will inherit from us. Hopefully a free and thriving country, but while’s the buggers dae get you doon.
Onwards and upwards folks, only way to go.
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Fred: yes, Burns had to watch his back. There was little justice for the common man in those days, and none in Dundas’s police state, although I seem to remember Robert refused to stand for the “Loyal Toast” in Dumfries. How any Burns Club has this as a part of their evenings, I’ll never understand. I love sitting them out and making the diners feel uncomfortable.
Probably the masonic influence, aka the Punty-Up of the Scots Bourgeoisie.
Fred
7 years ago
@ Tinto, brace yersel,
Who will not sing “God save the King!”
Shall hang as high as the steeple;
But while we sing “God save the king!”
We’ll ne’er forget the people!
R.Burns.
He had joined the Volunteers & was sookin-in with the powers that be, looking for promotion at the time!
No doubt Dr James Mundel was aghast?
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Yes, Fred, he was walking a dangerous tight-rope. It’s common for Unionists to present Burns as a Good Brit but Scots Wha Hae can be read as a reaction to Muir’s treatment and not just a patriotic Scottish song.
I was even told by one Britnat frother in 2014 that Burns would have voted No.
Weasels rip my flesh!
Nana
7 years ago
@Liz g
I hope 2017 is the year Scotland has the courage to tell Westminster to go to hell and we take our independence. That’s what I asked Santa for.
@Marie Clark
Had a lovely time Marie, tried not to think of all the problems we are facing, main one being the bloody bbc. Having done some links for inform Scotland I was quite depressed re reading some of the rubbish they trotted out before Sept14 and as for the burd, don’t get me started and I don’t mean turkey although she has a neck like one.
I’m glad to see the back of the turkey but curry does sound good.
Dave McEwan Hill
7 years ago
Does anybody know Denis Dunn of Prestonpans or Edinburgh? On Facebook he put up a post about election rigging and pouring scorn on those who wonder if the Referendum was in anyway rigged.
I replied in a respectable manner that postal voting had been rigged resulting in several successful prosecutions in England,the EU had described the UK postal voting system as a recipe for fraud(which it is) and that 97% turnouts of postal votes in five constituencies in Scotland were in practical fact impossible but apparently achieved and he has removed my post and closed my access to his page.
The truth hurts and they are shitting themselves.
John Young
7 years ago
Just popped into off topic and this wee post somehow sums up the wonderful personalities of all the folk who frequent this corner of Wings
Smallaxe says:
27 December, 2016 at 4:55 pm
K1:
Sorry aboot the typo,that should read fuck! ?
Peace Always
Thepnr
7 years ago
@John Young
Hey! Welcome, your one of us now and we never let you go.
Back in the 70s, Zeek and Giz used to mime this when I was DJ at the Bowlin’ Alley in Dundee (Dundee College of Technology Students’ Union; now Uni of Abertay) before they emigrated to The Netherlands.
The video was done at one of their pal’s 50th birthday party in Dundee.
Hi Tinto, I wouldn’t call them poems, more like rhyming doggerel. As for the Collected Works, it would be cruel to inflict that on people.Now that I think about it, ASAP. 🙂
I hope you enjoyed the holiday, my Friend.
Peace Always
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Great to see you back commenting, Smallaxe. You had me worried for a few days.
Nana please dont thank us
Our thanks belong with you
Without your morning links
I dont know what we’d do
My coffee on those linkless days
Was like a cart without a horse
The milk was sour and awful
My coffee beans were coarse
Your lacking links made Christmas
A real case of Bah Humbug
But now your back once more I have
A hug back in my mug
Thank you, Nana.
Peace Always
Nana
7 years ago
@Smallaxe
Oh Billy that’s so nice, a poem all for me. I have printed it and when we meet I will expect you to autograph it.
Been baking and just saw your post. Don’t be telling Tinto Chiel as I’ve yet to ‘drop’ some scones off for him. But perhaps he’s made his own, sure I gave him the recipe so there’s no excuse.
Off to make a cuppa Billy, thanks again for my poem.
Your more than welcome Nana, to write for you was My pleasure
don’t work too hard, just have your break, enjoy it at your leisure
But haste ye back, I need my links, to me there written treasure 🙂
Peace and Love to You Nana and to Those that You Love xx
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
A Bells at The Bells is permitted, Smallaxe, and a large one at that.
Broadsword calling Nana Girl:
Severe buttermilk shortage here stop plz. drop scones Tinto Towers, Auld Cadzow, Darkest Lanarkshire stop X marks the spot stop
and oblige T. Chiel.
Fanx stop
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I’ll let you know that, contrary to what you may have heard in the steamie, Robert Planet never laid a hand on me!
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
BDTT: you’re an awfy man an’ a.
“Robert Planet” indeed!
Looking forward to meeting you and the gang at the Beeb Thing.
Proud Cybernat’s stickies are getting stuck big style down here in DL, btw.
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Meant to say, while waiting for Mrs TC, who was shopping in Fraser’s, this came on over the speakers and I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw:
Had to leave because the perfume girls were becoming too attracted to my strange, unnatural beauty.
It’s a curse, ah tell ye’ a blinkin’ curse….
Marie Clark
7 years ago
Awe Tinto, I havnae heard that in a long while. Love that song. When my auldest grandaughter (she’s 17 now, curses) wiz a wee wean about 18 months auld, that was the song I’d play for her. Nowadays I’d get reported tae the bad granny polis fur no singing her a proper lullabye. Man she loved it, when the mighty Slash stated playing that rift, she was up on her wee feet, and when the bass kicked in she would dance for all her worth. God love the wee soul. I’m surprised that she’s grown up quite normal, I dinnae ken how wae a granny like me.
Oh Nana, did you say your going away tomorrow? In that case, a guid New Year to you and yours, all th best when it comes.
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
That was a great story, Marie. I actually find a bass line often hits the spot as much as a big guitar riff. I regret not learning some kind of guitar but Music was strictly non-practical when I was at school and all I can remember was singing dirty words to sea shanties.
Nana: waresmascones?
Nana
7 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
Message received and I think understood. Unnatural beauty, absolutely!
Ah sweet child of mine, my oldest has a Les Paul so this is played regularly. My own favourite is November rain. Sadly for me the softer tunes don’t get played so much, Metallica at full blast with effects pedals is their thing. Gings no wonder I’m going deaf.
@Marie Clark
Aye Marie, we will be leaving sometime tomorrow. I will post links in the morning. May I wish you and your family a good and healthy 2017.
Nana
7 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
Did I hear you calling [told you I was going deaf]
Sorry Tinto scones have all disappeared, honestly they don’t last a minute round here.
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Great news, Nana: let the Relief of Auld Cadzow begin!
Wherever you’re off to, have a safe journey and looking forward to your links in 2017.
For just now, relax and take plenty of water with it, as you often tell me!
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Crossed comments, Nana.
Wot? Nae scones?
Whitahmagointaedae?
It’s a hard life, right enough.
*shambles off mumbling*
Thepnr
7 years ago
@Smallaxe
Read on another thread that you are a product of a Barlanark. My mother and father both came from there and when they got married and I was born we moved to Easterhouse.
I spent much time at my Grannies and Uncles houses in Barlanark, Pendeen Crescent was where the Granny lived but can’t remember my Uncles street but it was just up the road from the train station.
Funny that you moved from Govan because I moved to Govan LOL.
I dont mind you asking at all, I moved to Barlanark about 1954ish and left home at age 15 1966ish. My parents were still there for a few years before moving to their own house in Mt Vernon. I sort of drifted back and forward between wherever I was at the time and Barlanark.
I was a wanderer between England and Scotland for a good part of my life before I finally settled down. I said on here quite a while ago that when I tell people where I’ve been, sometimes it sounds as if I am in two places at the same time but that is because of my habit of travelling on the “milk trains” or getting a £5 ticket from Buchanan st to London and back again.Being a Hippy was a hard life. 🙂
Peace Always
K1
7 years ago
Tis time for tongue twisters, purely for fun:
I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s son, I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.
K1
7 years ago
And advert’s ye recall from childhood:
Chef’s square shaped soups show how a good soup should be.
Thepnr
7 years ago
@Smallaxe
I was just a wean then in the 60’s, remember being at my Uncle Franks house one New Year drinking “cordial” that my granny made. New Year was a big deal back then and families gathered in whoever’s house was having the party. The Beatles or Cilla Black would be on the record player or we made our own music and songs.
Uncle Frank was no bad on the spoons back then. Not as good as this guy though 🙂
I remember this City when it used to have Pride
When ships that were Great Ships were built on the Clyde
(part of a poem I wrote long ago)
Peace Always my Friend
Masslass
7 years ago
This is probably old news to many.
I just read it myself this week in the Irish Times.
Westminster has given their approval for N.Ireland to lower its’ Corporation tax to 12 1/2% to go into effect 2018.
To be on par with the Republic of Ireland.
Thepnr
7 years ago
@Masslass
Nope, not to me at least I never knew that. Westminster are losing control and thrashing about wildly trying to keep a grip.
This is just another sign that they are losing their grip. Who would ever have thought that it would have been an English and Welsh vote on Brexit that finally done for the Union?
Dave McEwan Hill
7 years ago
A guid New Year to all of us and 2017 looks interesting. Just getting geared up fro my radio programmes tonight/ Not much talk on my Roundabout at 7pm but an amazing piece by Mike Ogletree and my Roc’n’Roll show as at 8pm
I like that scenario…… Westminster losing it’s grip ! It seems that way, but they are masters of the black arts, I am always very wary of them. they have been at it for 1000 years. they scare me but truth will out !!
Stoker
7 years ago
Masslass
Just wanted to say hi, never seen your username before. Have you ever heard of a Will Podmore or am i barking up the wrong tree?
Gary45%
7 years ago
Just noticed Norovirus is at a 5year high in England-shire,
Shortbread/Yoons will demand an answer from the SNP.
Masslass
7 years ago
Hi Stoker,
No i don’t know of Will Podmore. I googled him and am none the wiser what he is about. Mabey you can tell me why you mentioned his name to me.
I have been a reader of Wings for years. i don’t post much,but sometimes you just have to.
Especially about this Corporation Tax deal for N.Ireland. What is that all about I want to know
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
Just had “Still Game” on.
In the very last scene before the credits (in the 70s), Isa is sitting on the settee wrapped in a duvet. I still have the blue version of that duvet cover folded up in my bedroom cupboard.
My daily hair-drier is a Moulinex from the 70s. Put on a new, much longer, mains cable years ago. Other than that, still original and working fine.
Bit of a shock to see an identical model in the museum when the McManus reopened…
Hi Tinto, I can emphasise with Mrs TC, that song brings back memories for myself also.Black bun, Madiera cake and Raspberry cordial.Men had to save to buy a bottle of whisky and a few cans of McEwans Pale ale, neighbours First Footing and calls of “One Singer One song” as people took turns to give a rendition of their Party Piece.
I wish You and Mrs TC, a Happy, Prosperous and Peacefull New Year for Yourselves and for those You Love
Peace Always my Friend
Stoker
7 years ago
Masslass (10:54pm)
Podmore was a disruptive regular on here constantly waffling tripe until the Rev got tired of his tediousness and punted him.
There was a regular contributor to WOS btl comments who was Podmore’s nemesis and a very active Winger, all she had to do was appear on the btl comments and he’d run for cover.
She would repeatedly hound him for the answer to a question related to something he said and he never could or would give her the answer.
Regrettably she doesn’t post on here anymore, at least not under her known username that most of us know her by.
Her religion of choice, if i remember correctly, was Catholicism and i quickly put 2 and 2 together with your username and briefly wondered to myself, hence me asking you what i did.
🙂
BTW, try contributing on a more regular basis, it’s good to have as wide an input to WOS and Scottish independence as is possible.
All the very best for 2017 when it comes to all believers in Scottish independence. Have a good one folks!
Smallaxe, thanks for the wee coak sparra, that brings back many happy memories. I can mind being a wee lassie and the Ne’erday programme when Duncan Macrae first sang this song. I thought my Dad would die laughing. Sad these times have gone, it used to be great fun and everybody had to do their party piece.
Shinty, thank you for that version of Ae Fond Kiss, by Robyn Stapleton. Beautiful. She’s a lovely singer, and fae doon here In Dumfries & Galloway, aboot Stranraer I believe.
I’ve been busy a’ day cooking and making sure the steak pie is ready. All I have to do now is wait for other folk coming round.
If I don’t get back later, a guid New Year tae all of you when it comes. Let’s hope it’s a better one than the year jist away.
Smallaxe, keep well my friend, there’s a sair fecht in front o’ us, and your needed in it anaw. Peace and love.
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Smallaxe, your Ne’erday memories are amazingly like mine. My mother’s ginger wine and black bun were memorable.
To soothe family tensions, we had to consume a steak pie for lunch at Granny No.1 and then go to Granny No.2 for a steak pie tea!
My most significant memory was my annual meeting with my father’s aunties, two tiny women whose feet didn’t touch the floor as they sat on the settee. They both wore black (both their husbands had died at the Battle of Loos in 1915) and they stayed that way until they died in the late 70s. How sad but how typical of the disproportionate effects of WW1 on Scottish soldiers, and the dreadful consequences for their wives and families.
You gave us a big scare, Smallaxe, so much love to you and your family and all the best in 2017.
And to all of 77 Brigade, Aldo/Waldo/Insensate Dave/Angostura Bittaz: I don’t think you come on here much behind the Green Door but thanks for all the laughs you brought us with your havers.
And to all Wingers, as Stoker and Thepnr have said elsewhere, 2017 is the year we have to hit the doorsteps all genned up and get out the vote.
I’m glad the song gave you happy memories Marie, now all we have to do is make sure that ourselves and our children and grandchildren are left with happy memories of our Independence Day celebrations.
I send you my best wishes
For this the coming year
And I know that we shall face it
With more hope and no more fear
Our destiny awaits us
We ask for only what is ours
Our Kingdom Nations freedom
Returning Alba’s Sovereign powers
Peace, Love and Happiness to You and Those to whom You give Your Love
I hope you have a Peacefull and Prosperous New Year
Fred
7 years ago
Podmore haunts the Guardian threads. A metropolitan, cardboard, communist Brexiteer tosser!
All the best to Smallaxe & the troops.
To folk who think 2017 will be boring…..pish! expect the un-expected.
The disproportionate effect on our Servicemen and Women will only be stopped when we stop fighting W/Minsters wars/invasions for them. Hopefully, that time is getting closer by the hour.
And to all of 77 Brigade, Aldo/Waldo/Insensate Dave/Angostura Bittaz: Awa and ask yer faithers aboot me, ah hope they’ve still goat ther scars, ave still goat mine, but mine were earned in honest pursuit of civil rights, whits ther excuse!
Have a good one Tinto my Friend
Peace Always
Stoker
7 years ago
Fred,
Aye, according to Cadogan Enright (sp?) Plodmore was haunting the comments of some Irish title not that long ago. He gets around, eh!
________
This is a very powerful message, wish there was a Brit version:
As Doon and the product of my loins are toddling off out shortly, I’ll leave you with the sentiments of this song, to all the Wings family, and wish you all an early
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Enjoy yourself, Happy New Year to You and Yours Brian
Peace Always my Friend
Stoker
7 years ago
Right, troops!
I’ll leave you all with this brilliant motivational speech.
Sit back, relax, close your eyes and ignore the video content.
Lets make 2017 the year we rise above our foundations.
Just before I forget, have a good one all you that frequent Off Topic, I wish that for all Wingers but those that frequent this den of inequity have a special place in my heart.
Happy New Year to all on off topic when the bells come. First Aid Kit – Heaven Knows. link to youtube.com
CameronB Brodie
7 years ago
As I’ve not posted any surf for a while, I thought this an appropriate vehicle for BLiS___d to transport their British nationalism out of Scottish politics.
Thanks very much Graham, wish Fiona a Happy New Year from me too!
@Michael McCabe
I can’t believe what you have just did there! Here’s me searching all over for a song for you and Lynn to bring in the New Year and you have just gone and made it that much more difficult due to that excellent find. I’ll still be trying and there’s time yet.
@K1
You just made my search a whole lot harder! Damn you Wingers Damn you ALL 🙂
Liz g
7 years ago
Happy & Healthy New Year Everyone,all the best when it comes.X
Thepnr
7 years ago
This song is about friends. I wish all my friends a happy New Year.
Hi, sun is shining here on Ayrshire coast too! Would love to take it as a good omen and ignore all the “buts” 🙂
@ all Wingy folks: Hope this year is a better one! Good wishes to you all. Haven’t been around much recently, but, pop in every now and again to make sure y’all are behavin’, but, nae chance o’ that really. 😉
Glad to hear that the weather is good, I have half of my family living there (My father’s side).
Auld Ayr where n’er a toon surpasses for honest men, and bonny lassies.
Hope you have a Peacefull Happy and Prosperous 2017
Peace Always
Fred
7 years ago
Beautiful day in Glesga, a fish supper oot the Merchant Chippie in the High Street would be just what the doctor ordered but ah doot they’ll be shut!
I’ve never heard of this lot before, pretty good stuff if you like that kind of thing. Sounds a wee bitty Iron Maiden(ish) to me. They’re a German heavy metal group who support Scottish Indy.
Today’s top 10 news stories at 6 in Scotland according to the BBC:
1 – Murder investigation after house fire
2 – Major success of Edinburgh Hogmanay
3 – Scotland welcomes first 2017 babies
4 – Hotel evacuated in early-morning fire
5 – Loony Dookers’ chilly start to new year
6 – Man critical after street attack
7 – Increase in new year ambulance calls
8 – Mental health problems hit 1 in 4 Scots
9 – Baby box pilot scheme launched
10- Papers reveal blood payout unease
No10: “Ministers considered fighting early compensation claims by victims of contaminated blood in the courts, historic Cabinet documents have shown. The newly-declassified papers from 2001 show the then Scottish Executive feared paying out up to £20m to people affected by the scandal. Last year an inquiry concluded about 3000 Scots had contracted hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated NHS blood. The Scottish government has agreed financial support for those affected.”
Message to Donalda ‘McDaffy’ Duck:
Any chance you could let us all know who that Scottish Executive consisted of and which political party’ government is it that helps take care of those affected by offering financial support?
All replies to wingsoverscotland please. Thank you!
Capella
7 years ago
@ Smallaxe – actually, my favourite Beefheart is ” Big Eyed Beans from Venus”. It’s a tonic but has to be played LOUD! link to youtube.com
Thank you, for your O/T on Topic.”Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.And we’re down to the dozens.”
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Love is a rare commodity in these times, sometimes I despair at “Mans inhumanity to Man”.Friends like you alleviate the only too real, dark places that my mind can wander into.
Thank you, my Friend.
Peace Always
Thepnr
7 years ago
My brother used to tell a joke. It went like this:
“If Peter Cushing and Whoopi Goldberg had a bairn. Would they call her Whoopi Cushing?”
Jist leave yer coat wer it is, ye managed to pit a smile oan ma face
Peace Always my Friend
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
Hi peeps!
A very happy new year ti wiz a’! Spent an evening in Frews last night, saw the new year in and left a “Misreporting Scotland” sticker between the mirrors in the gents’ bog. For Jim Spence, who tends to have a cocktail in Frew’s before he goes to Dens or his natural home, Tannadice, on match days.
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Hi Stoker.
I did an extensive post sometime last year, in which I mentioned “Tuttie Tatie”, “La Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” and “Grave Digger”. Can’t remember which page it was on and neither a Google ‘site specific’ search or Wings’ own search box can find it.
I did find a subsequent mention through the ‘site specific’ search from April 2016, however.
If I’d been in the hoose at 11.50pm or thereaboots last night, I would have offered you this; a track I always used at that time of Hogmanay, just before “Auld Lang Syne” and the bells, when I did Hogmanay gigs. That was the traditional order of events – “Auld Lang Syne” was sung in the minutes leading up to midnight, then Jimmy Shand played “A Guid New Year” immediately after the bells.
I did a post at a couple of minutes after midnight which has not appeared. Looks like wordpress has rejected it, as Capella’s post at 12.17 is appearing.
So, what I’ll do is remove the fourth YouTube link (which probably caused the post’s disappearance), stick in a few words about how to find it, and try again.
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Hi peeps!
A very happy new year ti wiz a’! Spent an evening in Frews last night, saw the new year in and left a “Misreporting Scotland” sticker between the mirrors in the gents’ bog. For Jim Spence, who tends to have a cocktail in Frew’s before he goes to Dens or his natural home, Tannadice, on match days.
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Hi Stoker.
I did an extensive post sometime last year, in which I mentioned “Tuttie Tatie”, “La Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” and “Grave Digger”. Can’t remember which page it was on and neither a Google ‘site specific’ search or Wings’ own search box can find it.
I did find a subsequent mention through the ‘site specific’ search from April 2016, however.
If I’d been in the hoose at 11.50pm or thereaboots last night, I would have offered you this; a track I always used at that time of Hogmanay, just before “Auld Lang Syne” and the bells, when I did Hogmanay gigs. That was the traditional order of events – “Auld Lang Syne” was sung in the minutes leading up to midnight, then Jimmy Shand played “A Guid New Year” immediately after the bells.
Lastly, from that original post (that I can’t find) I give you this piece of ‘shiver up the back when the bagpipes come in’ music from France.
[link removed] Just paste
“Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce”
into YouTube’s search box and you should get it.
Slainté!
Ian Brotherhood
7 years ago
@BDTT –
🙂
Brilliant. Total memory-lane material.
Hope you’ve had a good few days, and wish ye many ever better ones ahead.
Smallaxe, I used tae get sent for rolls to Hillkirk Street age aboot 7. I think the bakery was called Torrance’s & the night-shift must have just started so 11 on a Saturday night & dodging the drunks. 🙂
Drunks were not the only thing we had to avoid, were you there when James Griffiths went on the rampage in 1969.The cops got him cornered in Kay st and shot him dead.Apart from that, it was a beautiful summers day that day.I happened to be in the company of a young lady that day and with the heat and excitement she fainted, I carried her to the nearest off-licence the proprietor of which gave her a glass of water (I was hoping for something stronger) for my heroic rescue under fire. 🙂
Peace Always
CameronB Brodie
7 years ago
Brian Doonthetoon
Lounge metal, is it? This is getting serious. 😉
Smallaxe, left Springburn in 1953 but remember the Kay Street Steamie. There was the case of the lunatic who escaped from an asylum in Kirkintilloch & walked to Springburn where he raped three women in the steamie & escaped, pursued by the biler-man. The Evening Times headline that night was,
“NUT SCREWS WASHERS & BOLTS!” 🙂
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Great links, Brian, thanks.
Mrs TC is enforcing a strict “one in, one out” policy on my bookshelves but that’s ok ‘cos I’ve got a couple of candidates for the out tray already.
As you know, it’s tough being a Scottish intellectual.
😛
CameronB Brodie
7 years ago
Lounge metal and Scottish intellectuals? Like, do-be-do-bap-di-she-wah, BLiS__d are BritNat dobbers? Or perhaps, do-be-do-bap-di-she-wah, the BBC kiss BLiS’s necrotic arse??
No, man. You’re thinking of “bee-boo-boo-bop, boo-boo-bop”, Scotland doesn’t deserve this insanity.
P.S. I least I make more sense than the BUM, though that’s not difficult.
Stoker
7 years ago
Brian Doonthetoon on 2 January, 2017 at 12:26 am:
When i posted the links to Grave Digger, Brian, i did have a wee niggling among my grey matter somewhere, their name was ringing a very distant bell. Your response is ringing a closer bell so maybe i seen your original post sometime last year. Too busy to go looking for it though and if you can’t find it i’m definitely not going to attempt looking for it. 🙂
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Cameron (3:17am)
Jeez, mucker, whit ye tryin’ tae dae tae me?
Never seen that before but it gave me a giggle.
That heed banging thing just isn’t working for them is it?
Thepnr
7 years ago
Some of you might have noticed tonight on the Wings twitter feed, the reaction to the Historywoman tweet:
“Enjoyed hosting a dinner party for neighbours & friends on Hogmanay. All of them scathing about the SNP Executive & its lies.”
He’s my video contribution and as an added bonus we get mention of Banana boats too! Watch the Zoomers enjoy Hogmanay 🙂
Noticed in BBC Radio Jocklandshire, Northern England today a prog. on John Peel’s Sessions – the Scottish connection, that there was no Gerry Rafferty. Shocking. But then again, he was a Yes supporter.
2nd track I suspect more than a few indy supporters can identify with.
Thepnr
7 years ago
@Chic McGregor
Cheers! and a happy New Year to you Chic. You’ve had me sniggering for the last five minutes. It’s good to laugh though.
Chic McGregor
7 years ago
Thepnr
Aye, happy New year tae a’bdy.
Ian Brotherhood
7 years ago
@Chic McG –
Hoots tae you too brother. Orraverybestest.
Dig-in for the long-haul mister…
🙂
Fred
7 years ago
Tam Weir actually had a wee fling with Fanny Craddock when they were both filming in Glasgow. She was going to leave Johnnie for Tam but it would have made her Fanny Weir.
Smallaxe, my posts to you on the steamie keep vanishing, I was furth of Springburn by the 60’s.
Dont worry about it Fred, my Springburn address was basically just one of my retreats.I also had a room and kitchen in Crail st. Parkhead at the same time. I’ve always been an anti- social socialist. 🙂
I always ensured that the seatbelts in my A60 were fast release!
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Hi Chic.
That link turned up in my searching but I’m sure I did a post that mentioned Bannockburn, ‘Tuttie Tatie’, Joan of Arc’s Scots Guard and the album “Tunes Of War”. That’s what I can’t find. (Thinks… maybe I did it on Facebook…).
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
BDTT: I had heard rumours of a Dundee Britax Boy but didn’t want to ask…
Three-in-One or WD40?
Shouldn’t pry, really…
Chic McGregor
7 years ago
Fred,
Gerry Rafferty came out of the Scottish folk circuit, like Rab Noakes, Barbara Dixon and others.
He was a favourite of John Peel who I remember playing every track off ‘Can I have My Money Back’ several times.
BTW Rab Noakes contributed to that classic album on guitar and backing vocals.
JP was particularly fond of Stuck in the Middle by Stealer’s Wheel, Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan (and Rab Noakes early on).
Later, his music did sway more towards pop and folk although he still pumped out folky stuff.
But yes I think it was the earlier more folky stuff Peel liked best because it was new (then) and different.
The news about vinyl sales today has reminded me that my wife chucked out my old vinyl collection, without asking, some years back and my two most prized possessions were an original release of ‘Can I have My Money Back’ and a signed copy no less of Rab Noakes first album ‘Do You see The Lights’ another cult classic.
Chic McGregor
7 years ago
Just had a quick swatch and found this YT of Rab Noakes. A nice mellow track from ‘Do You See The Lights.’
I’m trying to catch up,I got unexpected visitors and then got my knitting in a fankle, just when I was casting off.
Sorry but I dont know much about the Redan apart from the fact that it was a Russian fortress during the Crimean war but I think you know that already, as far as I can remember it was, for a time, a place that a lot of freemasons used to frequent. I may be wrong but I think it has been demolished now.
Peace Always my Friend
Chick McGregor
7 years ago
I think I prefer ‘Chick’. Think I will use that from now on, at least I won’t keep getting confused with the Rangers for Indy fans guy then.
mike cassidy
7 years ago
Chic 10.25
“The news about vinyl sales today has reminded me that my wife chucked out my old vinyl collection, without asking, some years back”
Well, they were up in the loft right enough and we were CD player only by then.
Chic McGregor
7 years ago
Well that’s three posts I’ve done as Chick McGregor and none have got through.
Strange, since I’ve used Chicmac and my Sunday name Charles McGregor before no problem???
Cactus
7 years ago
Tonight, I am..
Who’s pouring aff topic?.
X.
Love ye all, soon..
Ghillie
7 years ago
Ok this weird thing has never happened to me before.
Tried to open comments on main article and :
FORBIDDEN : You do not have permission to access ‘Here we go again’ from this server.
Anyone know that’s about?
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Morning all. Up sneezing with this infernal cold.
BDTT: the mind boggles! 😛
Thanks, Smallaxe. Didn’t know about the magic circle connection. Last time I passed a long time ago it didn’t look the type of joint to take a young lady for a gimlet.
Talking of lost collections. My mother chucked out my bro’s Eagle annuals. Think he had up to No.22.
Gulp.
Knit me a new head, Smallaxe. Time for the Vick.
Cactus
7 years ago
Ditto Ghillie, it’s a passing thing.. we’re back.
RT HD on a guest tv just there:
Keiser Report:
Info: Keiser report is a no holds barred look at the shocking scandals behind the global financial headlines..
Groovy 🙂
Cactus
7 years ago
Cheers us, not long till daylight..
Mark the day.
X.
Cactus
7 years ago
Wishing ye very well Tinto Chiel.
🙂
Ghillie
7 years ago
Thanks Cactus, glad it’s not just me! What an alarming statement though. Got through eventualy = )
Great to see you back again, take your time with any links, get your bags unpacked and have a rest. I’m doing ok, just this bloody fatigue.For the first time in my adult life I slept through the Bells, I cant plan anything because I dont know how I’m going to be from one day to the next.
I’m supposed to be going to London for a few days soon, I hope I can stay awake long enough because it’s important. Other than the fatigue though I’m fine, painkillers and other medication are minimising the symptoms so I’ll just have to dour it oot. 🙂
Peace Always and a Happy New Year to You and Yours
Billyxx
Yes fatigue can really get you down. Getting up in the morning, a quick spray with the wd40 to get the joints moving and limbered up only to find 10 minutes later you are too tired to put the cap back on the tin!
Seriously though fatigue really is a terrible thing. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy your tip doon the road.
May 2017 bring you and your family good health and much happiness.
PS Hands nae too bad right now, I thoroughly recommend 3in1 oil haha
I’ve just looked at the main thread and already you have posted links. your an awfy Wumman. How are your hands, ok I hope, please dont overdo it.
Peace Always
Kettle’s on
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Thanks, Cactus. Happy New Year. Hope to see you in March for The Outing.
Smallaxe: have been practising all night long.
I feel better now.
And Nana’s back, you know the SCONE lady.
Nana
7 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
Having trouble with the drone Tinto, damn thing just won’t get off the ground and take instruction. I’m trying to ‘take back control’ but it’s not looking good right now.
In my best Jean Brodie accent
You’ll just have to visit for tea and a wee scone.
I’m pleased that you are feeling better, we need all our warriors as healthy as possible, unless they have something contagious and nasty that they can pass on at Yoon HQ.Once they have infected PQ I’m sure we could crowd- fund the best private medicine for them as a thank you for their heroism.
I’ts just a pity we that we cant inject them with a truth serum. 🙂
Peace Always
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Thanks, guys. This Vick is powerful stuff: I can see colours, man.
Don’t worry about the drone, Nana. Would love to pop in but don’t want to infect you all. Plus there is now a buttermilk lake in Auld Cadzow and it’ll soon be scones à gogo at The Towers.
Might try my experimental seasonal version: mango chutney and cranberry.
@ Smallaxe, Voices from the Highlands, thanks for that, just back from the Highlands myself, good weather n too many hoose-haufs, passed the Redan manys a time, aye wondered!
Stoker
7 years ago
Good grief Smallaxe!!
Never mind helping the enemy to pull in advertising revenue, Paula will have a fit at the mess you’re making of the place.
You’re supposed to be guarding the border, not letting them in via the back door.
Black pudding and sultana/ sun dried tomato and lorne sausage, scones????????
Could I ask “what exactly have you been imbibing Tinto”?
Vick vapours may be causing these strange taste sensations Tinto, Mrs Tinto should wean you off that stuff.
Hope you are feeling better soon!
Quentin Quale
7 years ago
@Tinto Chiel I had blue cheese & grilled pears on sourdough bread at New Year. I wonder if Roquefort & pear would make a good scone filling?
Off for a calming cuppa after that National article.
K1
7 years ago
It’s the Herald Stoker, it’s not allowing any archiving anymore, don’t understand how they’ve done it. I can’t read any Herald articles from ordinary browsers so took up Thpnr’s suggestion and use private browser mode to view links that people are posting to Herald articles. But ye can’t archive from that either. They are sneaky bastards preventing archiving…unfortunately that leaves us wi links tae their pish and increasing their click rate. 🙁
Tinto Chiel
7 years ago
Morning, Nana. I’m all sconed out this morning, tbh. That last batch of mango and venison did for me. And I’m on the sparkling mineral water, honest.
Seriously, blue cheese and pears on sourdough sounds pretty good, QQ. Not surprised you need a cuppa: Mrs TC has just read Fry’s article and is raging too. I can’t be bothered reading it but the Home Secretary tells me it’s most annoying.
Fry’s revisionism re the Clearances has always annoyed me and I have doubted his judgment ever since. Tens of thousands of empty highland acres are proof of his deeply misguided position. And I’m sure he quite recently had a book extolling The Union, so I’m confused.com
“Hoose-hauf”: delightful expression, Fred. Definition: “a non-standard, generous measure dispensed in a domestic situation”.
PS Dugdale & Davidson are Puddings (see Union Puddings.urg)
Lollysmum
7 years ago
@Brian Doonthetoon
Brian-am I right in thinking you are pretty knowledgable about pc’s? I seem to remember some lengthy posts in times gone by & I’m in need of info from someone with more IT knowledge than me.
Basically, the onboard graphics on my pc has died. The only graphics cards that we know works on a Dell 521 is ATI Radeon x1300 or ATI Radeon R7 250-the latter requires an additional power supply so is not a good choice. I’ve managed to get hold of an ATI X1300 graphics card BUT it has a Vesa DMS 59 connector & an old style black circular connector. My 22inch monitor only has VGA or DVI 24+1 connector. I can’t find any way of joining the two so that my pc will boot. My life is on that machine & I’d hate to lose everything on it.
Do you know if it’s possible to get a cable/adapter to convert DMS 59 to DVi 24+1. I don’t want to run two monitors via a dual link. I’m not a gamer:) I just want to be able to get into my pc to copy all my emails ,family photos etc to an external hard drive. PC won’t even boot up as it goes into a loop trying to load XP & stops when it can’t load graphics.
Any ideas? Computer shops are a bit thin on the ground in the Borders 🙂
Fred
7 years ago
Smallaxe, there’s also an excellent black pudding from Tailford, Broxburn which is on sale at The Barras for £3 a whole stick.
K1
7 years ago
Och ah know Stoker but every now and then a link is posted and curiosity depending on the context is piqued an ah jist cannae help masel’ 😉
Thanks for that Fred, Haggis may be “Chieftan o’the Puddin-race” but Black Pudding is the Heir Apparent. 🙂 Peace Always
Brian Doonthetoon
7 years ago
Hi Lollysmum.
I’m a Mac man – I know next to nothing about pc’s. I will type though – all the stuff that you have on your pc is actually on the internal hard drive. You don’t lose that because the pc is playing up. You’d only use that if the internal hard drive failed.
I wouldn’t worry too much about losing stuff; as long as the hard drive is ok, all your stuff should be able to be recovered.
There are peeps on here who probably understand better the rest of your post and can advise hardware-wise. You did mention “an old style black circular connector”. Is that not an S-Video connector? I wouldn’t necessarily describe that as “old style”. This page may help you:-
It would appear that DMS-59 is designed to feed two monitors. I don’t know if it will feed only one. At less than £4 for a cable, it may be worth trying with one monitor.
I should point out that in Dundee, you can get a 4:3 flat screen monitor for up to £20, at the likes of Cash Generator or Cash Converters. I use a 4:3 monitor attached to my iMac at work, on which I have either the Sky or BBC News Channel showing in a Firefox window with the sound muted.
Ruglonian
7 years ago
Happy New Year everyone!!
To all the Wingers that I’ve personally met – you know who you are! – (and the Boss if he’s reading) I am extending an invitation to a wee get-together next weekend (14th) at my home in Rutherglen.
Stoker? You rang? 😉
Smallaxe, glad to see ye posting away and that you are feeling a bit better…to you and everyone else, season greetings…thank fuck that’s aw air way 🙂
Marie Clark @ 1.36
Hi Marie isn’t it funny how much we look at catching up on Wing’s as a bit of peace and sanity.
I don’t think any Yoons blog has the same effect…They all seem …..em…Upset and mad about something.
Wee shame that right enough…. LOL
Marie Clark:
Seasons Greetings, Marie, I’m feeling a lot better and like you, we have been spending time with our family (grandchildren especially), it reminds us who’s future we are fighting for.
I’m sure Nana will be back shortly, I miss her links in the mornings but at the same time I was thinking selfishly, great! Nana’s hands will be well rested, plenty of links for Me.Then I thought, no, Nana will be cooking, cleaning and baking, probably for her own family, it was then that I realised that it was not I who was being selfish, it was that family! some people!
🙂
I’m sure liz will see this and hopefully Nana. The whole “Yes Movement” could not exist without you, that’s obvious to anyone.Women are better communicators than men, they are at times more compassionate and some may say that women are “too emotional”. When people are starving or dying in wars, I expect someone to be emotional, that’s what’s missing!
I could go on and on with this subject, it has been a personal bugbear of mine for a long time Marie but I won’t, not today anyway.
I am aware that I will not be the only man who thinks like I do, about balance and equality for all people, regardless of race or sex.
I would just like, if I may, to Thank all of you, Scotswomen of birth or choice for everything that you have done for Scotland, not just for the Independence movement but for Scotsmen like myself, who know that our dear Mothers went hungry to make sure that her bairns were fed.
I bow to you all “Daughters of Eve” my admiration for you all has no border.
Peace and Love to All of Scotlands lovely Lassies
(This does not apply to the ones I need not name)
Smallaxe
Smallaxe
Your welcome ,it’s nae bother.X
K1:
Thanks for the good wishes they are much appreciated.
Aye agreed, thank fck for that.Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.I’ve enjoyed it aboot as much as ah can staun.Ma wallets inconsolably greetin.
🙂
Peace Always to You and Yours, my Friend
K1:
Sorry aboot the typo,that should read fuck! 🙂
Peace Always
LoL Smallaxe, thank fuck fur that, thought ye wur losin’ it there for a minute 😉
K1,
At the end of each WOS article, just prior to the comments starting, there is a greenish PDF button. If i download the articles to my documents and then, according to their categories, i place them into their respective zip files, will this be sufficient to keep and protect each article for as long as needed?
The other option is doing something similar but via using the archive.is facility then into their respective zip files. The only difference i can see is that the first method cuts out the comments but as far as i know the archive.is method captures the comments as well as the article.
What’s your opinion on these?
Hi Stoker.
Re: “Archiving”.
I did a post earlier this month about “archive.org”. You can read it at this link:-
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Before I come back to that, if you save the PDF of the article on your machine, you have it forever, or until you delete it.
RE: “archive.is” – see what I type in the above link.
RE: “archive.org” (see at my above link) – I’ve just stuck “http://wingsoverscotland.com” into the search box at:-
http://web.archive.org
and it returned a calendar of all the captures of the Wings site it has done. The first was on 4th January, 2013. You can explore each year at the top of the page, and it gives you a calendar, showing all the captures circled in blue, in that year. Just click on the blue circle and you will see the main WOS page that was captured.
You can click on the links on the page. It seems to have been further on in 2013 when the archive got the links sorted out so you see a topic’s page, with all the comments btl.
I suggest you read my first link above (to the comment I posted) then explore.
Well big part of Wings is comments, they too have a lot of information in them which would be lost just saving as PDF, so personally ah favour the archive.is option, as it retains all comments…forever…and ever…and ever…
I attempted from an archived copy of a wings article to ‘download zip’ from the archived page itself, duly went into my files on computer, but had to strip out miscellaneous files that came with it, logos etc, and the ‘index’ page has the article but no images and sidebar links all gone too. So not too sure on the zipping of stuff, think you’re more advanced than me on that one Stoker.
If you can zip file, then zip the archived version not the pdf. That way, yes you will have them where you want to store them rather than on the browser bookmarks folders, but I would keep the bookmark folders too, just for ease of dissemination when online. That’s aw av goat 🙂
Thanks BDTT, will check out too… 🙂
BTW: if you click on a link on a Wings main page at”archive.org”, you may get an error message saying that it doesn’t have that page archived. It then gives you the option to click to have the page archived.
Handy stuff!
Brian & K1
So much to do and so little time to do it. Muchas gracias amigos!
BTW2: the other handy thing about “archive.org” is when you go to a page you have bookmarked and find that it’s no longer there (usually ‘Error 404’).
If you paste the web address into “archive.org” for a search, you may find the page archived. This happened a few months ago with a page that Rev Stu had sought. I was able to give him the “archive.org” link.
BDTT 7:36
Event noted, transport and hotel booked so I can have a few shandies without rushing home with a skinful.
Smallaxe, nae bother, your very welcome. I’ve been busy “squaring up the hoose” efter a’ the family went hame. It’s brilliant tae see them a’ the gither at this time o’ year especially.
I’m very pleased I’m no a celebrity or I’d be getting worried. I see poor Carrie Fisher has died now. Only a few days left of 2016. I’ll be pleased to see the back of it.
@ Tinto, Burns of course supported his hero Thomas Muir but had a family to feed & had eventually to keep his heid doon due to his job in the excise. When bevvied Burns was apt to show his true colours, which he regretted greatly when sober as Botany Bay could have been the upshot. One of his Dumfries buddies with republican sympathies was a radical doctor called James Mundel, I wonder if?………
Marie Clark:
I think that there are a lot of us will be glad to see the back of this year, Marie.I worry about some young and not so young people who want to be “Famous”, for too many, fame becomes a curse if they can’t handle it.I’m happy to be just a dad and a grandfather, that is fame enough for me.
Peace Always to You and Yours Marie
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
I’m so happy to see you have been posting. I must try and catch up with comments, that’s if I can prise myself away from the kitchen!
Stay well Billy and tell Mrs Smallaxe to take a rest.
Morning Smallaxe
Yay Nana’s back….2016 is almost over…. There’s nae turkey left….Things can only get better!!!!
Stay well my friend.X
Nana:
It’s great to have you back again, your links are the Gift that I have been looking forward to, sorry I missed you on the main thread this morning but I had to take my daughter to work and leave my wife to look after the two grandchildren.I wonder how many of us grandparents have to do this, there must be thousands of us.
I hope you saw my post to Marie Clark on this thread at 4:38pm, for you and all our other ladies.I bet you had a great Christmas, running about feeding people, as I’m sure you were.
Kettle’s on and links to read, a hug in a mug, Smashing!
Peace, Love and Happiness to You and Your Family
Billy
@Liz g
Hope you had a lovely Christmas. No turkey left you say, I’m hoping to finish mine today. Making a turkey and ham pie, my own favourite.
I’m back for a couple of days Liz. We will be visiting with friends and family on the 30th until around the 4th or 5th so no links on those days. Blimey I’ll need a holiday after this holiday lol!
@Smallaxe
Sadly I have no grandchildren, both my sons are too career minded and I doubt that will change anytime soon. They like their freedom to do as they please, go where they please and have to please no one. I get told ‘plenty time Mam] when I hint about family ties, they laugh at me for being ‘old fashioned’
But they are young and when the right person comes along….
Hug in a mug, I like that. I just read your post to Marie, beautiful sentiment Billy.
Calls are being made to speed up work on the upgrade of Berriedale Braes in Caithness.
The notorious section of the A9 has been the scene of several tragedies over the years.
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant has written to Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, following reports that work has now started on the design for the project after the publication of the findings of a local public inquiry
Hypocrisy from Ms Grant as she and her party did nothing about this in all the years they were in power,see below.
Rhoda has represented the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 to 2003 and then from 2007 to the present day.
Hi Nana
Enjoy your well deserved break Nana.
We do miss you but our moaning is very much tounge in cheek.
The main problem is that I come across as totally well informed about current affairs… Because I am reading your links. So when there’s no links I am a bit lost.
So wish I had you a million years ago at school.
As a cheat sheet you are second to none…. LOL
Anyhoo all the best,and, have a good one when it comes. X
liz g:
The band is back together for a wee while, it’s made my day. 🙂
Peace Always
Scott:
What you say does not surprise me, these people will always try to denigrate or take credit for things that they had played no part in.Rev Stu has it at the top of every page: “There’s no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
This woman will either complain or try to weasel herself in to take some credit but you have outed her and her Party’s inaction over the years, so she will probably stick to complaining.
Peace Always
Hi Nana, we missed you, hope you had a good time.We’re into the turkey soup and a curry to finish the blooming thing off.
I’ve been commenting on the main thread about the new BBC heid bummer’s article in the National. Disnae inspire any confidence at all.
Sometimes I despair for Scotland, and what sort of country that my three lovely grandaughters will inherit from us. Hopefully a free and thriving country, but while’s the buggers dae get you doon.
Onwards and upwards folks, only way to go.
Fred: yes, Burns had to watch his back. There was little justice for the common man in those days, and none in Dundas’s police state, although I seem to remember Robert refused to stand for the “Loyal Toast” in Dumfries. How any Burns Club has this as a part of their evenings, I’ll never understand. I love sitting them out and making the diners feel uncomfortable.
Probably the masonic influence, aka the Punty-Up of the Scots Bourgeoisie.
@ Tinto, brace yersel,
Who will not sing “God save the King!”
Shall hang as high as the steeple;
But while we sing “God save the king!”
We’ll ne’er forget the people!
R.Burns.
He had joined the Volunteers & was sookin-in with the powers that be, looking for promotion at the time!
No doubt Dr James Mundel was aghast?
Yes, Fred, he was walking a dangerous tight-rope. It’s common for Unionists to present Burns as a Good Brit but Scots Wha Hae can be read as a reaction to Muir’s treatment and not just a patriotic Scottish song.
I was even told by one Britnat frother in 2014 that Burns would have voted No.
Weasels rip my flesh!
@Liz g
I hope 2017 is the year Scotland has the courage to tell Westminster to go to hell and we take our independence. That’s what I asked Santa for.
@Marie Clark
Had a lovely time Marie, tried not to think of all the problems we are facing, main one being the bloody bbc. Having done some links for inform Scotland I was quite depressed re reading some of the rubbish they trotted out before Sept14 and as for the burd, don’t get me started and I don’t mean turkey although she has a neck like one.
I’m glad to see the back of the turkey but curry does sound good.
Does anybody know Denis Dunn of Prestonpans or Edinburgh? On Facebook he put up a post about election rigging and pouring scorn on those who wonder if the Referendum was in anyway rigged.
I replied in a respectable manner that postal voting had been rigged resulting in several successful prosecutions in England,the EU had described the UK postal voting system as a recipe for fraud(which it is) and that 97% turnouts of postal votes in five constituencies in Scotland were in practical fact impossible but apparently achieved and he has removed my post and closed my access to his page.
The truth hurts and they are shitting themselves.
Just popped into off topic and this wee post somehow sums up the wonderful personalities of all the folk who frequent this corner of Wings
Smallaxe says:
27 December, 2016 at 4:55 pm
K1:
Sorry aboot the typo,that should read fuck! ?
Peace Always
@John Young
Hey! Welcome, your one of us now and we never let you go.
This is Wings very own Hotel California 🙂
Checkin’ in Seasoned Wingers..
It’s almost midnight.
SO what happens at midnight..?
Cactus says:
“SO what happens at midnight..?”
Well Cactus, it’s simple.Yesterday turns into tomorrow!
🙂
Peace Always
John Young:
I see you have met Brother Thepnr, please allow me to introduce myself
link to youtube.com
It’s always nice to meet another inmate 🙂
Peace Always
Hi Smallaxe.
Surely yesterday turns into today?
———————————————————
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Your mention of the “weasels”. You could like this:-
link to youtube.com
Back in the 70s, Zeek and Giz used to mime this when I was DJ at the Bowlin’ Alley in Dundee (Dundee College of Technology Students’ Union; now Uni of Abertay) before they emigrated to The Netherlands.
The video was done at one of their pal’s 50th birthday party in Dundee.
BDTT:
Your forgetting Brian that I live down in the border (Fluffys domain) it’s a different time zone down here.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always my Friend
@Smallaxe
Good morning. Having problems posting this morning making me late checking in with you. Just read your poem on the main thread, liked it very much.
It’s good to see you posting again.
Nana:
Thanks, it’s even better to see your links again 🙂
Peace Always
BDTT: so that’s what a quiet night out in Dundee looks like.
Heeheeheehee…
(And they’re not groupies, btw).
Hey, Smallaxe, just saw your peom (as Molesworth used to call them) on the Other Place.
When’s the Collected Works coming oot?
Tinto Chiel:
Hi Tinto, I wouldn’t call them poems, more like rhyming doggerel. As for the Collected Works, it would be cruel to inflict that on people.Now that I think about it, ASAP. 🙂
I hope you enjoyed the holiday, my Friend.
Peace Always
Great to see you back commenting, Smallaxe. You had me worried for a few days.
Now crack on with Them There Cantos.
😛
Tinto:
I did not want to tell
I had me worried as well
I thought I heard the bell
Summoning me to Hell
Turned out it was just the door bell.
🙂
Peace Always
You’re an awfy man.
Glad you had such a good Crimbo with the grandkids.
Have a small Babycham at The Bells.
Cheersmedears.
I’m glad you did not go
To that place deep down below
We’d aw be very sad, If indeed ye really had
So now that you are back
We smile with gentle ease
For the man that keeps Wings full of love
By sending aw that Peace
We wish you well sweet Smallaxe
Or Billy to your friends
We hope you’ll aye be flying high
Wi the Wingers love we send
🙂
Tinto:
Would it be ok if I have a large Bells instead of the small Babycham?
I’ll ask Esmeralda, The Bells, The Bells, Sanctuary Sanctuary! I’m so ugly
Peace Always
Well hell Smallaxe…Have one of each.x
K1:
My friend I send you Peace and Love
From this old 69r
The kindness that you send to me
Could not make a “King” feel finer
I appreciate your every word
That to me you did impart
They now are deep inside of me
Engraved upon my heart
I wish you every happiness
But please do not feel silly
When I tell you I’m not Smallaxe
I’m just your good friend Billy
Peace and Love Always to You and Yours my Friend
liz g:
That’s a much better idea liz, Thanks xx
🙂
Peace Always
@Smallaxe & K1
You two have made my day so much better. Thank you
Nana:
Nana please dont thank us
Our thanks belong with you
Without your morning links
I dont know what we’d do
My coffee on those linkless days
Was like a cart without a horse
The milk was sour and awful
My coffee beans were coarse
Your lacking links made Christmas
A real case of Bah Humbug
But now your back once more I have
A hug back in my mug
Thank you, Nana.
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Oh Billy that’s so nice, a poem all for me. I have printed it and when we meet I will expect you to autograph it.
Been baking and just saw your post. Don’t be telling Tinto Chiel as I’ve yet to ‘drop’ some scones off for him. But perhaps he’s made his own, sure I gave him the recipe so there’s no excuse.
Off to make a cuppa Billy, thanks again for my poem.
Your more than welcome Nana, to write for you was My pleasure
don’t work too hard, just have your break, enjoy it at your leisure
But haste ye back, I need my links, to me there written treasure 🙂
Peace and Love to You Nana and to Those that You Love xx
A Bells at The Bells is permitted, Smallaxe, and a large one at that.
Broadsword calling Nana Girl:
Severe buttermilk shortage here stop plz. drop scones Tinto Towers, Auld Cadzow, Darkest Lanarkshire stop X marks the spot stop
and oblige T. Chiel.
Fanx stop
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I’ll let you know that, contrary to what you may have heard in the steamie, Robert Planet never laid a hand on me!
BDTT: you’re an awfy man an’ a.
“Robert Planet” indeed!
Looking forward to meeting you and the gang at the Beeb Thing.
Proud Cybernat’s stickies are getting stuck big style down here in DL, btw.
Meant to say, while waiting for Mrs TC, who was shopping in Fraser’s, this came on over the speakers and I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw:
link to youtube.com
Had to leave because the perfume girls were becoming too attracted to my strange, unnatural beauty.
It’s a curse, ah tell ye’ a blinkin’ curse….
Awe Tinto, I havnae heard that in a long while. Love that song. When my auldest grandaughter (she’s 17 now, curses) wiz a wee wean about 18 months auld, that was the song I’d play for her. Nowadays I’d get reported tae the bad granny polis fur no singing her a proper lullabye. Man she loved it, when the mighty Slash stated playing that rift, she was up on her wee feet, and when the bass kicked in she would dance for all her worth. God love the wee soul. I’m surprised that she’s grown up quite normal, I dinnae ken how wae a granny like me.
Oh Nana, did you say your going away tomorrow? In that case, a guid New Year to you and yours, all th best when it comes.
That was a great story, Marie. I actually find a bass line often hits the spot as much as a big guitar riff. I regret not learning some kind of guitar but Music was strictly non-practical when I was at school and all I can remember was singing dirty words to sea shanties.
Nana: waresmascones?
@Tinto Chiel
Message received and I think understood. Unnatural beauty, absolutely!
Ah sweet child of mine, my oldest has a Les Paul so this is played regularly. My own favourite is November rain. Sadly for me the softer tunes don’t get played so much, Metallica at full blast with effects pedals is their thing. Gings no wonder I’m going deaf.
@Marie Clark
Aye Marie, we will be leaving sometime tomorrow. I will post links in the morning. May I wish you and your family a good and healthy 2017.
@Tinto Chiel
Did I hear you calling [told you I was going deaf]
Sorry Tinto scones have all disappeared, honestly they don’t last a minute round here.
Great news, Nana: let the Relief of Auld Cadzow begin!
Wherever you’re off to, have a safe journey and looking forward to your links in 2017.
For just now, relax and take plenty of water with it, as you often tell me!
Crossed comments, Nana.
Wot? Nae scones?
Whitahmagointaedae?
It’s a hard life, right enough.
*shambles off mumbling*
@Smallaxe
Read on another thread that you are a product of a Barlanark. My mother and father both came from there and when they got married and I was born we moved to Easterhouse.
I spent much time at my Grannies and Uncles houses in Barlanark, Pendeen Crescent was where the Granny lived but can’t remember my Uncles street but it was just up the road from the train station.
Funny that you moved from Govan because I moved to Govan LOL.
It’s a small world.
Thepnr: Memories, some of the film is not great on 2nd/3rd
link to youtube.com Barlanark
link to youtube.com Pendeen Crescent
link to youtube.com Burnmouth Road: my road
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
Thanks for that but they are now nothing like the places I remember. If you don’t mind me asking when were you living in Barlanark?
Thepnr:
I dont mind you asking at all, I moved to Barlanark about 1954ish and left home at age 15 1966ish. My parents were still there for a few years before moving to their own house in Mt Vernon. I sort of drifted back and forward between wherever I was at the time and Barlanark.
I was a wanderer between England and Scotland for a good part of my life before I finally settled down. I said on here quite a while ago that when I tell people where I’ve been, sometimes it sounds as if I am in two places at the same time but that is because of my habit of travelling on the “milk trains” or getting a £5 ticket from Buchanan st to London and back again.Being a Hippy was a hard life. 🙂
Peace Always
Tis time for tongue twisters, purely for fun:
I’m not the pheasant plucker I’m the pheasant plucker’s son, I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.
And advert’s ye recall from childhood:
Chef’s square shaped soups show how a good soup should be.
@Smallaxe
I was just a wean then in the 60’s, remember being at my Uncle Franks house one New Year drinking “cordial” that my granny made. New Year was a big deal back then and families gathered in whoever’s house was having the party. The Beatles or Cilla Black would be on the record player or we made our own music and songs.
Uncle Frank was no bad on the spoons back then. Not as good as this guy though 🙂
link to youtube.com
Thepnr: Some more old memories
link to youtube.com old Glasgow
link to youtube.com Govan..Old and New
I remember this City when it used to have Pride
When ships that were Great Ships were built on the Clyde
(part of a poem I wrote long ago)
Peace Always my Friend
This is probably old news to many.
I just read it myself this week in the Irish Times.
Westminster has given their approval for N.Ireland to lower its’ Corporation tax to 12 1/2% to go into effect 2018.
To be on par with the Republic of Ireland.
@Masslass
Nope, not to me at least I never knew that. Westminster are losing control and thrashing about wildly trying to keep a grip.
This is just another sign that they are losing their grip. Who would ever have thought that it would have been an English and Welsh vote on Brexit that finally done for the Union?
A guid New Year to all of us and 2017 looks interesting. Just getting geared up fro my radio programmes tonight/ Not much talk on my Roundabout at 7pm but an amazing piece by Mike Ogletree and my Roc’n’Roll show as at 8pm
tunein.com/radio/Argyll-Independent-Radio-s198410/
Since it’s well and truly the silly season (e.g. Iain Gray trying to count), I thought I’d go the whole Coburn:
link to youtube.com
And this ‘cos it brings back a lot of happy memories. Almost fifty years? Seriously?
link to youtube.com
The beginning is nigh
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Thepnr,
I like that scenario…… Westminster losing it’s grip ! It seems that way, but they are masters of the black arts, I am always very wary of them. they have been at it for 1000 years. they scare me but truth will out !!
Masslass
Just wanted to say hi, never seen your username before. Have you ever heard of a Will Podmore or am i barking up the wrong tree?
Just noticed Norovirus is at a 5year high in England-shire,
Shortbread/Yoons will demand an answer from the SNP.
Hi Stoker,
No i don’t know of Will Podmore. I googled him and am none the wiser what he is about. Mabey you can tell me why you mentioned his name to me.
I have been a reader of Wings for years. i don’t post much,but sometimes you just have to.
Especially about this Corporation Tax deal for N.Ireland. What is that all about I want to know
Just had “Still Game” on.
In the very last scene before the credits (in the 70s), Isa is sitting on the settee wrapped in a duvet. I still have the blue version of that duvet cover folded up in my bedroom cupboard.
My daily hair-drier is a Moulinex from the 70s. Put on a new, much longer, mains cable years ago. Other than that, still original and working fine.
Bit of a shock to see an identical model in the museum when the McManus reopened…
Here it is. Mike Ogletree and reggae Robert Burns
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
A wee coak Sparra
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@Chic McGregor
That was certainly different. Wouldn’t have expected less though from you good self and I was soon tapping my feet and shaking my booty!
Cheers.
@Smallaxe
The wee coak Sparra was absolutely brilliant. Had heard it before but forgot. Smiled all the way watching it again. Ta.
Just had to share this link to youtube.com
Let’s help get her hits up.
Thepnr:
It reminds me of New Year during my childhood.Glad you enjoyed it.
Peace Always my Friend
Shinty:
A beautiful version of one of my favourite Burns songs.Thank you.
Peace Always
The War. link to youtube.com If you click on show more and scroll down you will find the Lyrics.
Michael McCabe:
Good to see you back on Michael
link to youtube.com
Just in case I dont hear from you before it
Peace Love and Happiness in the coming year, to You and to Those You Love my Friend
Hey, Smallaxe, thanks for the Duncan MacRae. It was my father in law’s party piece.
Mrs TC much touched.
Great stuff.
Tinto Chiel:
Hi Tinto, I can emphasise with Mrs TC, that song brings back memories for myself also.Black bun, Madiera cake and Raspberry cordial.Men had to save to buy a bottle of whisky and a few cans of McEwans Pale ale, neighbours First Footing and calls of “One Singer One song” as people took turns to give a rendition of their Party Piece.
I wish You and Mrs TC, a Happy, Prosperous and Peacefull New Year for Yourselves and for those You Love
Peace Always my Friend
Masslass (10:54pm)
Podmore was a disruptive regular on here constantly waffling tripe until the Rev got tired of his tediousness and punted him.
There was a regular contributor to WOS btl comments who was Podmore’s nemesis and a very active Winger, all she had to do was appear on the btl comments and he’d run for cover.
She would repeatedly hound him for the answer to a question related to something he said and he never could or would give her the answer.
Regrettably she doesn’t post on here anymore, at least not under her known username that most of us know her by.
Her religion of choice, if i remember correctly, was Catholicism and i quickly put 2 and 2 together with your username and briefly wondered to myself, hence me asking you what i did.
🙂
BTW, try contributing on a more regular basis, it’s good to have as wide an input to WOS and Scottish independence as is possible.
All the very best for 2017 when it comes to all believers in Scottish independence. Have a good one folks!
Dougie MacLean – The Gael
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe, thanks for the wee coak sparra, that brings back many happy memories. I can mind being a wee lassie and the Ne’erday programme when Duncan Macrae first sang this song. I thought my Dad would die laughing. Sad these times have gone, it used to be great fun and everybody had to do their party piece.
Shinty, thank you for that version of Ae Fond Kiss, by Robyn Stapleton. Beautiful. She’s a lovely singer, and fae doon here In Dumfries & Galloway, aboot Stranraer I believe.
I’ve been busy a’ day cooking and making sure the steak pie is ready. All I have to do now is wait for other folk coming round.
If I don’t get back later, a guid New Year tae all of you when it comes. Let’s hope it’s a better one than the year jist away.
Smallaxe, keep well my friend, there’s a sair fecht in front o’ us, and your needed in it anaw. Peace and love.
Smallaxe, your Ne’erday memories are amazingly like mine. My mother’s ginger wine and black bun were memorable.
To soothe family tensions, we had to consume a steak pie for lunch at Granny No.1 and then go to Granny No.2 for a steak pie tea!
My most significant memory was my annual meeting with my father’s aunties, two tiny women whose feet didn’t touch the floor as they sat on the settee. They both wore black (both their husbands had died at the Battle of Loos in 1915) and they stayed that way until they died in the late 70s. How sad but how typical of the disproportionate effects of WW1 on Scottish soldiers, and the dreadful consequences for their wives and families.
You gave us a big scare, Smallaxe, so much love to you and your family and all the best in 2017.
And to all of 77 Brigade, Aldo/Waldo/Insensate Dave/Angostura Bittaz: I don’t think you come on here much behind the Green Door but thanks for all the laughs you brought us with your havers.
And to all Wingers, as Stoker and Thepnr have said elsewhere, 2017 is the year we have to hit the doorsteps all genned up and get out the vote.
Orrabestorratime!
Marie Clark:
I’m glad the song gave you happy memories Marie, now all we have to do is make sure that ourselves and our children and grandchildren are left with happy memories of our Independence Day celebrations.
I send you my best wishes
For this the coming year
And I know that we shall face it
With more hope and no more fear
Our destiny awaits us
We ask for only what is ours
Our Kingdom Nations freedom
Returning Alba’s Sovereign powers
Peace, Love and Happiness to You and Those to whom You give Your Love
I hope you have a Peacefull and Prosperous New Year
Podmore haunts the Guardian threads. A metropolitan, cardboard, communist Brexiteer tosser!
All the best to Smallaxe & the troops.
To folk who think 2017 will be boring…..pish! expect the un-expected.
Tinto Chiel:
The disproportionate effect on our Servicemen and Women will only be stopped when we stop fighting W/Minsters wars/invasions for them. Hopefully, that time is getting closer by the hour.
And to all of 77 Brigade, Aldo/Waldo/Insensate Dave/Angostura Bittaz: Awa and ask yer faithers aboot me, ah hope they’ve still goat ther scars, ave still goat mine, but mine were earned in honest pursuit of civil rights, whits ther excuse!
Have a good one Tinto my Friend
Peace Always
Fred,
Aye, according to Cadogan Enright (sp?) Plodmore was haunting the comments of some Irish title not that long ago. He gets around, eh!
________
This is a very powerful message, wish there was a Brit version:
Five Finger Death Punch – Wrong Side Of Heaven
link to youtube.com
Stoker:
Sorry, I was AWOL for a while, Boss, I’ll try and make sure it disnae happen again.The border is securely under control again so dont worry.
Thanks for all you have done re archives it’s invaluable to me.
I wish You and Yours a Peacefull, Happy and Prosperous New Year
Dick Gaughan’s “Blaws the Wind!” would be good fur the Bells but Youtube’s problematic fur me.
All the best also to Dick himself, hope he makes a full recovery.
Away tae polish the brasses!
Fred:
All the best to You and Yours for the coming year, I hope it’s a good year for you all.Thanks for your support and Friendship, it’s much appreciated.
Peace Always my Friend
Aye, same tae you and yours, Smallaxe. Stay safe mucker!
________
Here’s 2 crackers from the man who told them to keep their gong:
Paul Weller – Broken Stones
link to youtube.com
Paul Weller – You Do Something To Me
link to youtube.com
As Doon and the product of my loins are toddling off out shortly, I’ll leave you with the sentiments of this song, to all the Wings family, and wish you all an early
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!
link to youtube.com
BDTT:
Enjoy yourself, Happy New Year to You and Yours Brian
Peace Always my Friend
Right, troops!
I’ll leave you all with this brilliant motivational speech.
Sit back, relax, close your eyes and ignore the video content.
Lets make 2017 the year we rise above our foundations.
Think Different
link to youtube.com
@Fred
Is this the Dick Gaughan you were looking for?
link to youtube.com
Just before I forget, have a good one all you that frequent Off Topic, I wish that for all Wingers but those that frequent this den of inequity have a special place in my heart.
True rebels 🙂 🙂
Big cheers to all of youse.
Love and Peace an aw that jazz!
XXXX
Where’s Paula?
*Calling Paula…Calling Paula…*
Ian Dury & The Blockheads, ‘Yes & No (Paula)’
link to youtube.com
Guys,
My heartfelt thanks, you made a bad year, well not good but understandable.
Thanks from the bottom of my being!
X
And no I am driving so having a sober one!
In honour of the parting year, not a bad one for me, business starting to recover!
link to youtube.com
Happy New Year to all on off topic when the bells come. First Aid Kit – Heaven Knows. link to youtube.com
As I’ve not posted any surf for a while, I thought this an appropriate vehicle for BLiS___d to transport their British nationalism out of Scottish politics.
@BLiS___d
Away back to London where you belong.
Aal Casey – The Hearse
link to youtube.com
On a mellower note, all the best for a productive and better New Year.
Al Casey – Body and soul
link to youtube.com
Happy New Year to all Wingers, old and new. Special shout out to Thepnr, Paula, BDTT & Pete the Camera.
Looking forward to many meet-ups in 2017.
This one is for all the People we wish we still had with us. link to youtube.com
Ye know I have tae play it…happy new year to ye’s aw…ma pals…
link to youtube.com
@Quentin Quale
Thanks very much Graham, wish Fiona a Happy New Year from me too!
@Michael McCabe
I can’t believe what you have just did there! Here’s me searching all over for a song for you and Lynn to bring in the New Year and you have just gone and made it that much more difficult due to that excellent find. I’ll still be trying and there’s time yet.
@K1
You just made my search a whole lot harder! Damn you Wingers Damn you ALL 🙂
Happy & Healthy New Year Everyone,all the best when it comes.X
This song is about friends. I wish all my friends a happy New Year.
It’s coming for aw that.
link to youtube.com
Ah The Bells. link to youtube.com
Happy New Year to all you wonderful People
link to youtube.com
Somebody had to play it!
Peace, Love and Happiness to ALL XXX
Caravan Palace. Lone Digger. link to youtube.com
A different Caravan
link to youtube.com
Peace Always 🙂
Once ye pop.. ye canny stop..
1 down, 1 across..
Caledonia.
X.
Thepnr, that Gaughan song was first class but “Freedom Come All Ye” was what I was thinkin o!
Hope there are no too many sair heids in the OT this morning, a Good Ne’erday everybody!
Haud that Thepnr, Smallaxe has just kindly got it up on the main thread!
“Never heed what the hoodie’s croak for doom!”
I’m pleased that you got my post on the main thread, I felt bad when I realised that my post on here had not gone through.
Peace Always my Friend
First day of the New Year and the sun is shining down here in Gretna, not a cloud in the sky, I’ll take it as a good omen.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@ Smallaxe
Hi, sun is shining here on Ayrshire coast too! Would love to take it as a good omen and ignore all the “buts” 🙂
@ all Wingy folks: Hope this year is a better one! Good wishes to you all. Haven’t been around much recently, but, pop in every now and again to make sure y’all are behavin’, but, nae chance o’ that really. 😉
Betty Boop:
Glad to hear that the weather is good, I have half of my family living there (My father’s side).
Auld Ayr where n’er a toon surpasses for honest men, and bonny lassies.
Hope you have a Peacefull Happy and Prosperous 2017
Peace Always
Beautiful day in Glesga, a fish supper oot the Merchant Chippie in the High Street would be just what the doctor ordered but ah doot they’ll be shut!
Fred:
The chip shop shut Fred? It’s that SNPs fault!
Peace Always 🙂
I’ve never heard of this lot before, pretty good stuff if you like that kind of thing. Sounds a wee bitty Iron Maiden(ish) to me. They’re a German heavy metal group who support Scottish Indy.
Grave Digger – Tunes of War
link to en.wikipedia.org
Grave Digger – The Brave/Scotland United
link to youtube.com
Today’s top 10 news stories at 6 in Scotland according to the BBC:
1 – Murder investigation after house fire
2 – Major success of Edinburgh Hogmanay
3 – Scotland welcomes first 2017 babies
4 – Hotel evacuated in early-morning fire
5 – Loony Dookers’ chilly start to new year
6 – Man critical after street attack
7 – Increase in new year ambulance calls
8 – Mental health problems hit 1 in 4 Scots
9 – Baby box pilot scheme launched
10- Papers reveal blood payout unease
No10:
“Ministers considered fighting early compensation claims by victims of contaminated blood in the courts, historic Cabinet documents have shown. The newly-declassified papers from 2001 show the then Scottish Executive feared paying out up to £20m to people affected by the scandal. Last year an inquiry concluded about 3000 Scots had contracted hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated NHS blood. The Scottish government has agreed financial support for those affected.”
Message to Donalda ‘McDaffy’ Duck:
Any chance you could let us all know who that Scottish Executive consisted of and which political party’ government is it that helps take care of those affected by offering financial support?
All replies to wingsoverscotland please. Thank you!
@ Smallaxe – actually, my favourite Beefheart is ” Big Eyed Beans from Venus”. It’s a tonic but has to be played LOUD!
link to youtube.com
Definitely off topic
Capella:
Thank you, for your O/T on Topic.”Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.And we’re down to the dozens.”
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Love is a rare commodity in these times, sometimes I despair at “Mans inhumanity to Man”.Friends like you alleviate the only too real, dark places that my mind can wander into.
Thank you, my Friend.
Peace Always
My brother used to tell a joke. It went like this:
“If Peter Cushing and Whoopi Goldberg had a bairn. Would they call her Whoopi Cushing?”
I’ll get ma coat!
Thepnr
Jist leave yer coat wer it is, ye managed to pit a smile oan ma face
Peace Always my Friend
Hi peeps!
A very happy new year ti wiz a’! Spent an evening in Frews last night, saw the new year in and left a “Misreporting Scotland” sticker between the mirrors in the gents’ bog. For Jim Spence, who tends to have a cocktail in Frew’s before he goes to Dens or his natural home, Tannadice, on match days.
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Hi Stoker.
I did an extensive post sometime last year, in which I mentioned “Tuttie Tatie”, “La Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” and “Grave Digger”. Can’t remember which page it was on and neither a Google ‘site specific’ search or Wings’ own search box can find it.
I did find a subsequent mention through the ‘site specific’ search from April 2016, however.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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If I’d been in the hoose at 11.50pm or thereaboots last night, I would have offered you this; a track I always used at that time of Hogmanay, just before “Auld Lang Syne” and the bells, when I did Hogmanay gigs. That was the traditional order of events – “Auld Lang Syne” was sung in the minutes leading up to midnight, then Jimmy Shand played “A Guid New Year” immediately after the bells.
link to youtube.com
As we’re in to ’17, I’ll offer these two – don’t think they’ve featured in ‘off-topic’ previously. Tenuous, eh ken…
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Lastly, from that original post (that I can’t find) I give you this piece of ‘shiver up the back when the bagpipes come in’ music from France.
link to youtube.com
Slainté!
@ Smallaxe – Backatcha ! 🙂
I did a post at a couple of minutes after midnight which has not appeared. Looks like wordpress has rejected it, as Capella’s post at 12.17 is appearing.
So, what I’ll do is remove the fourth YouTube link (which probably caused the post’s disappearance), stick in a few words about how to find it, and try again.
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Hi peeps!
A very happy new year ti wiz a’! Spent an evening in Frews last night, saw the new year in and left a “Misreporting Scotland” sticker between the mirrors in the gents’ bog. For Jim Spence, who tends to have a cocktail in Frew’s before he goes to Dens or his natural home, Tannadice, on match days.
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Hi Stoker.
I did an extensive post sometime last year, in which I mentioned “Tuttie Tatie”, “La Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce” and “Grave Digger”. Can’t remember which page it was on and neither a Google ‘site specific’ search or Wings’ own search box can find it.
I did find a subsequent mention through the ‘site specific’ search from April 2016, however.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
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If I’d been in the hoose at 11.50pm or thereaboots last night, I would have offered you this; a track I always used at that time of Hogmanay, just before “Auld Lang Syne” and the bells, when I did Hogmanay gigs. That was the traditional order of events – “Auld Lang Syne” was sung in the minutes leading up to midnight, then Jimmy Shand played “A Guid New Year” immediately after the bells.
link to youtube.com
As we’re in to ’17, I’ll offer these two – don’t think they’ve featured in ‘off-topic’ previously. Tenuous, eh ken…
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Lastly, from that original post (that I can’t find) I give you this piece of ‘shiver up the back when the bagpipes come in’ music from France.
[link removed] Just paste
“Marche des soldats de Robert Bruce”
into YouTube’s search box and you should get it.
Slainté!
@BDTT –
🙂
Brilliant. Total memory-lane material.
Hope you’ve had a good few days, and wish ye many ever better ones ahead.
Hoots!
BDTT:
I can only echo Ian on that selection of music but did you notice the name of the guy that uploaded the Regents 7 Teen?
Pleased that you’ve had a good one so far Brian, long may it last.
Peace Always to You and Yours my Friend
Never noticed that, Smallaxe. Spooky, iye, considering the song.
Before I turn in, as the stairs to Bedfordshire beckon, another couple that would probably be banned by the BBC these days.
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Oh to be a teenager again!
BDTT:
Dont blame me, you started it
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
Why does nobody warn us that your body ages but the brain cant seem to get past 18/25yrs 🙂
Peace Always
Here’s one for Stoker and all the metal fans. 🙂
Ever wondered what the world would have turned out like if Ozzy Osbourne had decided to be a jazz singer?
Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Jazz Version)
link to youtube.com
Looking good Scotland.
Here be a song by Fleetwood Mac..
link to youtube.com
🙂
Stevie’s.. Seventeen.
X.
nineteen
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
7 seconds
link to m.youtube.com
Happy New Year wings posse.
🙂
Andrew McLean:
Hope you have enjoyed the holiday Andrew.
Peace, Love and prosperity to You and Yours Brother
link to youtube.com
🙂
Inspired by CBB’s ‘Paranoid’, here’s Pat Boone, ‘in a metal mood’.
link to youtube.com
Lounge metal…
Smallaxe, I used tae get sent for rolls to Hillkirk Street age aboot 7. I think the bakery was called Torrance’s & the night-shift must have just started so 11 on a Saturday night & dodging the drunks. 🙂
Fred:
Drunks were not the only thing we had to avoid, were you there when James Griffiths went on the rampage in 1969.The cops got him cornered in Kay st and shot him dead.Apart from that, it was a beautiful summers day that day.I happened to be in the company of a young lady that day and with the heat and excitement she fainted, I carried her to the nearest off-licence the proprietor of which gave her a glass of water (I was hoping for something stronger) for my heroic rescue under fire. 🙂
Peace Always
Brian Doonthetoon
Lounge metal, is it? This is getting serious. 😉
Rammstein – Du Hast (Bossa Nova Version)
link to youtube.com
BDTT: is this the one you were talking about? Kept it in me Faves after you posted it once, I think.
link to youtube.com
Each time I watch it I wonder where they got the pipers from.
And I wish all you Caledonian Brains-Trusters a Guid New Year.
You keep me sane, well, as sane as I can manage.
By the way, Brian: ever thought of writing a book about the Dundee music scene? Or have you already and I’m just ignorant?
Cheersmedears.
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Aye, that’s the one!
Picked up this page from somewhere today. Interesting stuff…
link to buzzfeed.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
RE: Dundee Music Scene.
Exclusively Dundee area, you can get “Take it to the Bridge: Dundee’s Rock & Pop History Paperback – Illustrated, 22 Sep 2011”.
link to amazon.co.uk
There’s a fair amount of Dundee stuff in “All That Ever Mattered: The History of Scottish Rock and Pop Paperback – 1 Sep 1993”.
link to amazon.co.uk
Smallaxe, left Springburn in 1953 but remember the Kay Street Steamie. There was the case of the lunatic who escaped from an asylum in Kirkintilloch & walked to Springburn where he raped three women in the steamie & escaped, pursued by the biler-man. The Evening Times headline that night was,
“NUT SCREWS WASHERS & BOLTS!” 🙂
Great links, Brian, thanks.
Mrs TC is enforcing a strict “one in, one out” policy on my bookshelves but that’s ok ‘cos I’ve got a couple of candidates for the out tray already.
As you know, it’s tough being a Scottish intellectual.
😛
Lounge metal and Scottish intellectuals? Like, do-be-do-bap-di-she-wah, BLiS__d are BritNat dobbers? Or perhaps, do-be-do-bap-di-she-wah, the BBC kiss BLiS’s necrotic arse??
No, man. You’re thinking of “bee-boo-boo-bop, boo-boo-bop”, Scotland doesn’t deserve this insanity.
Spongebob – Electric Zoo Trap Remix (Bee Boo Boo Bop)
link to youtube.com
P.S. I least I make more sense than the BUM, though that’s not difficult.
Brian Doonthetoon on 2 January, 2017 at 12:26 am:
When i posted the links to Grave Digger, Brian, i did have a wee niggling among my grey matter somewhere, their name was ringing a very distant bell. Your response is ringing a closer bell so maybe i seen your original post sometime last year. Too busy to go looking for it though and if you can’t find it i’m definitely not going to attempt looking for it. 🙂
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Cameron (3:17am)
Jeez, mucker, whit ye tryin’ tae dae tae me?
Never seen that before but it gave me a giggle.
That heed banging thing just isn’t working for them is it?
Some of you might have noticed tonight on the Wings twitter feed, the reaction to the Historywoman tweet:
“Enjoyed hosting a dinner party for neighbours & friends on Hogmanay. All of them scathing about the SNP Executive & its lies.”
He’s my video contribution and as an added bonus we get mention of Banana boats too! Watch the Zoomers enjoy Hogmanay 🙂
link to youtube.com
Alex
If Christopher Lee and Ginger Rogers had a baby would it be born Ginger Lee?
In which case a whoopi cushion might be better than nothing.
BDTT
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Noticed in BBC Radio Jocklandshire, Northern England today a prog. on John Peel’s Sessions – the Scottish connection, that there was no Gerry Rafferty. Shocking. But then again, he was a Yes supporter.
Can I have My Money Back?
PS
link to youtube.com
2nd track I suspect more than a few indy supporters can identify with.
@Chic McGregor
Cheers! and a happy New Year to you Chic. You’ve had me sniggering for the last five minutes. It’s good to laugh though.
Thepnr
Aye, happy New year tae a’bdy.
@Chic McG –
Hoots tae you too brother. Orraverybestest.
Dig-in for the long-haul mister…
🙂
Tam Weir actually had a wee fling with Fanny Craddock when they were both filming in Glasgow. She was going to leave Johnnie for Tam but it would have made her Fanny Weir.
Smallaxe, my posts to you on the steamie keep vanishing, I was furth of Springburn by the 60’s.
Peel apparently didn’t like Jock Rock!
Fred:
Dont worry about it Fred, my Springburn address was basically just one of my retreats.I also had a room and kitchen in Crail st. Parkhead at the same time. I’ve always been an anti- social socialist. 🙂
Peace Always
Flitting yer time away Smallaxe?
Fred:
By moonlight Fred, by moonlight, I wasn’t called the “Midnight Man” for nothing. 🙂
Peace Always
Fred:
From 1969
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Springburn’s Carl Denver, shite name ah know! MacKenzie wisnae good enough! Carl Barrowfield, Carl Rutherglen?
Fred:
Carl Denver:Voices of the Highlands.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
K K K K KARL, Ah swopped ma brains fur a pun o’ mince.A bargain
Peace Always
I note the teenage sexual nostalgia mentioned further up the page and wonder if this sad tale of frustration rings any bells?
link to youtube.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
I always ensured that the seatbelts in my A60 were fast release!
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Hi Chic.
That link turned up in my searching but I’m sure I did a post that mentioned Bannockburn, ‘Tuttie Tatie’, Joan of Arc’s Scots Guard and the album “Tunes Of War”. That’s what I can’t find. (Thinks… maybe I did it on Facebook…).
BDTT: I had heard rumours of a Dundee Britax Boy but didn’t want to ask…
Three-in-One or WD40?
Shouldn’t pry, really…
Fred,
Gerry Rafferty came out of the Scottish folk circuit, like Rab Noakes, Barbara Dixon and others.
He was a favourite of John Peel who I remember playing every track off ‘Can I have My Money Back’ several times.
BTW Rab Noakes contributed to that classic album on guitar and backing vocals.
JP was particularly fond of Stuck in the Middle by Stealer’s Wheel, Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan (and Rab Noakes early on).
Later, his music did sway more towards pop and folk although he still pumped out folky stuff.
But yes I think it was the earlier more folky stuff Peel liked best because it was new (then) and different.
The news about vinyl sales today has reminded me that my wife chucked out my old vinyl collection, without asking, some years back and my two most prized possessions were an original release of ‘Can I have My Money Back’ and a signed copy no less of Rab Noakes first album ‘Do You see The Lights’ another cult classic.
Just had a quick swatch and found this YT of Rab Noakes. A nice mellow track from ‘Do You See The Lights.’
link to youtube.com
Hi Tinto Chiel.
Just regular checking and maintenance with dual-purpose Vaseline as required…
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Hi Chick.
You managed to provide a very concise history of the Paisley chappie without mentioning The Humblebums or Connolly!
link to youtube.com
“Chick”.
DOH!
Tinto Chiel:
I’m trying to catch up,I got unexpected visitors and then got my knitting in a fankle, just when I was casting off.
Sorry but I dont know much about the Redan apart from the fact that it was a Russian fortress during the Crimean war but I think you know that already, as far as I can remember it was, for a time, a place that a lot of freemasons used to frequent. I may be wrong but I think it has been demolished now.
Peace Always my Friend
I think I prefer ‘Chick’. Think I will use that from now on, at least I won’t keep getting confused with the Rangers for Indy fans guy then.
Chic 10.25
“The news about vinyl sales today has reminded me that my wife chucked out my old vinyl collection, without asking, some years back”
And you stayed married!
Well, cheer yourself up with this!
twitter.com/90thMin/status/814974733221588992?lang=en
Still not sure if its real though.
Almost seems like a Marcel Marceau audition!
Mike
Well, they were up in the loft right enough and we were CD player only by then.
Well that’s three posts I’ve done as Chick McGregor and none have got through.
Strange, since I’ve used Chicmac and my Sunday name Charles McGregor before no problem???
Tonight, I am..
Who’s pouring aff topic?.
X.
Love ye all, soon..
Ok this weird thing has never happened to me before.
Tried to open comments on main article and :
FORBIDDEN : You do not have permission to access ‘Here we go again’ from this server.
Anyone know that’s about?
Morning all. Up sneezing with this infernal cold.
BDTT: the mind boggles! 😛
Thanks, Smallaxe. Didn’t know about the magic circle connection. Last time I passed a long time ago it didn’t look the type of joint to take a young lady for a gimlet.
Talking of lost collections. My mother chucked out my bro’s Eagle annuals. Think he had up to No.22.
Gulp.
Knit me a new head, Smallaxe. Time for the Vick.
Ditto Ghillie, it’s a passing thing.. we’re back.
RT HD on a guest tv just there:
Keiser Report:
Info: Keiser report is a no holds barred look at the shocking scandals behind the global financial headlines..
Groovy 🙂
Cheers us, not long till daylight..
Mark the day.
X.
Wishing ye very well Tinto Chiel.
🙂
Thanks Cactus, glad it’s not just me! What an alarming statement though. Got through eventualy = )
Have a lovely day!
Tinto Chiel:
I hope you feel better soon my Friend. I’ve sent you this in case you are not doing it properly.www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvZ3rHxr4Mc
Peace Always
@Smallaxe
I’m back! One leg in the door, the other reluctant to stay. You know how it is after a holiday having to empty bags and tidy up.
How are you these days Billy, well I hope.
Tinto:
Second try:
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
Nana:
Great to see you back again, take your time with any links, get your bags unpacked and have a rest. I’m doing ok, just this bloody fatigue.For the first time in my adult life I slept through the Bells, I cant plan anything because I dont know how I’m going to be from one day to the next.
I’m supposed to be going to London for a few days soon, I hope I can stay awake long enough because it’s important. Other than the fatigue though I’m fine, painkillers and other medication are minimising the symptoms so I’ll just have to dour it oot. 🙂
Peace Always and a Happy New Year to You and Yours
Billyxx
@Smallaxe
Yes fatigue can really get you down. Getting up in the morning, a quick spray with the wd40 to get the joints moving and limbered up only to find 10 minutes later you are too tired to put the cap back on the tin!
Seriously though fatigue really is a terrible thing. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy your tip doon the road.
May 2017 bring you and your family good health and much happiness.
PS Hands nae too bad right now, I thoroughly recommend 3in1 oil haha
Nana:
I’ve just looked at the main thread and already you have posted links. your an awfy Wumman. How are your hands, ok I hope, please dont overdo it.
Peace Always
Kettle’s on
Thanks, Cactus. Happy New Year. Hope to see you in March for The Outing.
Smallaxe: have been practising all night long.
I feel better now.
And Nana’s back, you know the SCONE lady.
@Tinto Chiel
Having trouble with the drone Tinto, damn thing just won’t get off the ground and take instruction. I’m trying to ‘take back control’ but it’s not looking good right now.
In my best Jean Brodie accent
You’ll just have to visit for tea and a wee scone.
Tinto:
I’m pleased that you are feeling better, we need all our warriors as healthy as possible, unless they have something contagious and nasty that they can pass on at Yoon HQ.Once they have infected PQ I’m sure we could crowd- fund the best private medicine for them as a thank you for their heroism.
I’ts just a pity we that we cant inject them with a truth serum. 🙂
Peace Always
Thanks, guys. This Vick is powerful stuff: I can see colours, man.
Don’t worry about the drone, Nana. Would love to pop in but don’t want to infect you all. Plus there is now a buttermilk lake in Auld Cadzow and it’ll soon be scones à gogo at The Towers.
Might try my experimental seasonal version: mango chutney and cranberry.
TRIAL
link to heraldscotland.com
TRIAL 2
link to heraldscotland.com
Hi, guys.
Just finished a batch of my black pudding and sultana buttermilk scones, Nana. Pure kwality, btw.
I offer you all a bracing shanty. Bev Bevan goes mental.
link to youtube.com
Sun-dried tomato and Lorne sausage?
Hello?
Hello…..
Right, get oot ma conveyance!
link to youtube.com
Looking for new recipes.
Open to suggestion…..
link to youtube.com
@ Smallaxe, Voices from the Highlands, thanks for that, just back from the Highlands myself, good weather n too many hoose-haufs, passed the Redan manys a time, aye wondered!
Good grief Smallaxe!!
Never mind helping the enemy to pull in advertising revenue, Paula will have a fit at the mess you’re making of the place.
You’re supposed to be guarding the border, not letting them in via the back door.
Fred:
Your welcome, my friend.
Peace Always
Stoker:
My apologies boss, I was trying to find out how to do it properly.I failed
it seems.
I have booked myself in for Reindoctrination and corrective thinking, I can assure you it won’t happen again.
link to youtube.com
Peace Always
@Tinto Chiel
Black pudding and sultana/ sun dried tomato and lorne sausage, scones????????
Could I ask “what exactly have you been imbibing Tinto”?
Vick vapours may be causing these strange taste sensations Tinto, Mrs Tinto should wean you off that stuff.
Hope you are feeling better soon!
@Tinto Chiel I had blue cheese & grilled pears on sourdough bread at New Year. I wonder if Roquefort & pear would make a good scone filling?
Off for a calming cuppa after that National article.
It’s the Herald Stoker, it’s not allowing any archiving anymore, don’t understand how they’ve done it. I can’t read any Herald articles from ordinary browsers so took up Thpnr’s suggestion and use private browser mode to view links that people are posting to Herald articles. But ye can’t archive from that either. They are sneaky bastards preventing archiving…unfortunately that leaves us wi links tae their pish and increasing their click rate. 🙁
Morning, Nana. I’m all sconed out this morning, tbh. That last batch of mango and venison did for me. And I’m on the sparkling mineral water, honest.
Seriously, blue cheese and pears on sourdough sounds pretty good, QQ. Not surprised you need a cuppa: Mrs TC has just read Fry’s article and is raging too. I can’t be bothered reading it but the Home Secretary tells me it’s most annoying.
Fry’s revisionism re the Clearances has always annoyed me and I have doubted his judgment ever since. Tens of thousands of empty highland acres are proof of his deeply misguided position. And I’m sure he quite recently had a book extolling The Union, so I’m confused.com
“Hoose-hauf”: delightful expression, Fred. Definition: “a non-standard, generous measure dispensed in a domestic situation”.
*sips mineral water guiltily*
K1:
Thanks for having my back, I owe you one my Friend.
🙂
Peace Always
Best black pudding hmmmmmmm Ramsay’s of Carluke!
Smallaxe (1:07am)
😀
K1 (10:22am)
There’s a simple way around that, don’t use their links.
😉
Calder Millerfield does a good black pudding!
link to caldermillerfieldltd.co.uk
Peace Always (with black pudding)
PS Dugdale & Davidson are Puddings (see Union Puddings.urg)
@Brian Doonthetoon
Brian-am I right in thinking you are pretty knowledgable about pc’s? I seem to remember some lengthy posts in times gone by & I’m in need of info from someone with more IT knowledge than me.
Basically, the onboard graphics on my pc has died. The only graphics cards that we know works on a Dell 521 is ATI Radeon x1300 or ATI Radeon R7 250-the latter requires an additional power supply so is not a good choice. I’ve managed to get hold of an ATI X1300 graphics card BUT it has a Vesa DMS 59 connector & an old style black circular connector. My 22inch monitor only has VGA or DVI 24+1 connector. I can’t find any way of joining the two so that my pc will boot. My life is on that machine & I’d hate to lose everything on it.
Do you know if it’s possible to get a cable/adapter to convert DMS 59 to DVi 24+1. I don’t want to run two monitors via a dual link. I’m not a gamer:) I just want to be able to get into my pc to copy all my emails ,family photos etc to an external hard drive. PC won’t even boot up as it goes into a loop trying to load XP & stops when it can’t load graphics.
Any ideas? Computer shops are a bit thin on the ground in the Borders 🙂
Smallaxe, there’s also an excellent black pudding from Tailford, Broxburn which is on sale at The Barras for £3 a whole stick.
Och ah know Stoker but every now and then a link is posted and curiosity depending on the context is piqued an ah jist cannae help masel’ 😉
Fred:
Thanks for that Fred, Haggis may be “Chieftan o’the Puddin-race” but Black Pudding is the Heir Apparent. 🙂 Peace Always
Hi Lollysmum.
I’m a Mac man – I know next to nothing about pc’s. I will type though – all the stuff that you have on your pc is actually on the internal hard drive. You don’t lose that because the pc is playing up. You’d only use that if the internal hard drive failed.
I wouldn’t worry too much about losing stuff; as long as the hard drive is ok, all your stuff should be able to be recovered.
There are peeps on here who probably understand better the rest of your post and can advise hardware-wise. You did mention “an old style black circular connector”. Is that not an S-Video connector? I wouldn’t necessarily describe that as “old style”. This page may help you:-
link to en.wikipedia.org
You could try a search on eBay for a connecting cable. I just tried searching for
DMS59 DVi24+1 cable
and got this page of results. Maybe you’ll find what you need?
link to tinyurl.com
CORRECTION!
In the first paragraph, “You’d only use that” should read “You’d only lose that”.
Stoker & K1:
Please, my Friends, it was All my fault for posting the link, I put Trial at the top thinking that no one would use it.My Bad.
Let’s now get back to fighting the Unionists. Peace to All
Hi Lollysmum. (Continued…)
As I had no knowledge of the “DMS59” connection, I read this:-
link to en.wikipedia.org
It would appear that DMS-59 is designed to feed two monitors. I don’t know if it will feed only one. At less than £4 for a cable, it may be worth trying with one monitor.
I should point out that in Dundee, you can get a 4:3 flat screen monitor for up to £20, at the likes of Cash Generator or Cash Converters. I use a 4:3 monitor attached to my iMac at work, on which I have either the Sky or BBC News Channel showing in a Firefox window with the sound muted.
Happy New Year everyone!!
To all the Wingers that I’ve personally met – you know who you are! – (and the Boss if he’s reading) I am extending an invitation to a wee get-together next weekend (14th) at my home in Rutherglen.
Email me if you can make it, and we can discuss further details – gillian.mair80@gmail.com
xx
Small axe,
Black pudding is not on my diet, given that I am now officially a F B,
Can you post a link to a vegetarian option?
Almost done from my sabbatical, so expect more inappropriate drivel in 2017!
Peace love and fraternal greetings comrades from a very cold Glenmore!
X
Hi Andrew Mclean.
A vegetarian option to black pudding? I’ll bet you’re the guy in Tesco looking for the low-fat lard…
8=)
Or the guy in PC World, looking for a phoneless cord…
8=)