@ Tinto, that ensemble is just about what the Scotia habituees are wearing this season so it might be a tricksy extracting a Laphroaig aff ye kid!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Thanks, Fred. Will default to my Darth Vader with Orc boots combo in that case.
It’s tough being a trend-setter.
Fred
6 years ago
@ Tinto, if you intend wearing that lot fae Kelvingrove U could end up in intensive. Just sayin like!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
*Muses thereon*
Good point, Fred. Will just go undercover in normal motley.
I was researching something on-line and I came across this instead.
Strangely, I don’t remember it being mentioned on the BBC at the time. The second film clip has been blocked by the corporation “for copyright reasons” although you can find the excerpt elsewhere on the interwebthingy if you make a little effort. It shows two of its journalists telling porkies on air while the said building is still clearly standing and the whole sordid shitfest was the basis of the English gent’s defence. He has made an interesting documentary which is to be found on YT.
So, just in case you had run out of reasons not to pay a TV licence or watch MSM ever again:
I know you read here and the other thread is now dead I wondered though if you remember meeting Robin who claims to have met you.
“Thepnr” asks why I called “K1” a “She”? That is simple numbnut,,it is because she is a female.
Well she was the last time I met her. She was with her girlfriend to be exact. But like Liz g, these two “Females” have become very aggressive and Butch for some reason.
I know for certain I’ve never met with Robin, what about anyone else? Wings night, march or rally? Of course maybe Robin knows K1 through nothing to do with Independence.
In an earlier post he had this to say in a response to Liz g which is just a tad weird.
I don’t want to get the jail for rolling about the street with some thug from Wings.
Thepnr @ 8.26
That’s no all that was weird,but I’ll tell ye better when I see ye.
…………..
Anyone
Is there a time to all meet up on Saturday?
Cactus
6 years ago
See y’all tomorrow marchers of freedom, bring yer families, pets and all, an ah’ll be looking out for you Jock Scot, see ye at the same bit as last time 🙂
26 hours remaining to go…
cearc
6 years ago
I hope you all have a great time tomorrow. Just don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, apart from dancing. Do lots of dancing to make up for me not being able to!
Grandchildren on the way from the airport will be here within the hour. First 3 incubator chicks just transferred to a cage for their benefit, a few more on the way.
See youse all soon.
Archie (not Erchie)
6 years ago
I have a big flag pole, room for a Wings flag if anybody has a spare one tomorrow.
Utter disgrace. Time the Express got onto this issue. Since the SNP came into power in 2007 about 670,000 people in Scotland have died. What is Nicola Sturgeon doing about this?
Shall be mentioning this disgrace on my radio slot tonight…..and the big march.
Fred
6 years ago
“Comin Down the Road!”
The Wasp
6 years ago
I stood in a queue in the Alloa RBS branch this morning for nearly 25 minutes. I stood in a queue in the same branch for over 20 minutes last week. The branch is shutting. There is no sense in that move, and the staff have been told not to speak about the situation. I despair.
Highland Wifie
6 years ago
Walking shoes- check.
Water bottle – check.
Saltire- check.
Bus ticket – check.
Happy face – check.
Looking forward to tomorrow and meeting some folks.
Archie (not Erchie)
6 years ago
@ cearc: oh Ive been lurking and taking it all in. Time to spread the word again 😉
Capella
6 years ago
Bus ticket booked for tomorrow. Planning to get there if it takes me all day – which it will. I don’t want to miss the big day. Hope to meet up with you at the Wings tent.
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Archie (not Erchie)
I have a Wings flag for you and very happy for you to have it if you’re going to be waving it all about 🙂
I doubt there is any chance of meeting you before the march starts so you will have to pick it up from Ronnie Anderson at the Wings stall in the Green.
I should be hanging about too but just in case ask Ronnie.
@Capella
Glad to hear you will make it after all, well done 🙂
Capella
6 years ago
@ Thepnr – thx – will get there about 11 so hope to catch up with the last bit of the march. Will look out for the Wings stall at the Green.
Thepnr
6 years ago
Something that I hope will put you in a good mood for the march in Glasgow tomorrow. Let’s have a good time, we’re still young as long as we think we are 🙂
Great to see you yesterday Pete – along with all the other wingers too many to mention, but I thought you’d like this wee video of the Yes bikers with Pete strolling along taking in the sights!
What a braw day – only wish I could have stayed over and partied on in the Clutha with all you lovely folks. Ach, well, next time!
Jock Scot
6 years ago
Hi Pete, hope you got home ok. Cheers Oatcakes for a place to crash and for a change not having to pelt up to the station from the Clutha. Shame aboot the early departure Cactus and cheers to Alex for confirming that I do indeed snore. Hats off to everyone else who gallantly helped to make lots of dosh for the next crack ‘n’ smack party.
Betty Boop
6 years ago
What a great day. Love working in the park amongst a’ these happy folk.
Apologies that JimT and moi, and Annie, Irene and Brian didn’t get much of a chat with a lot of the visitors to the stall. We were on “piece work” fur a hard gaffer ;-). Nae sittin’ doon for us, ye ken 😉
Sorry, didn’t get to The Clutha; visited son after the park and were a bit sair; auld legs LOL.
Seriously, a really inspiring day. See y’ll next time round.
Betty Boop
6 years ago
A word for Mr Ronnie Anderson. Ronnie is a national treasure. No, that disnae mean he should be in a museum! He’s really a big sweetie, but, ye’ve no’ tae tell onybody. Works his socks off for Scotland and Wings and will help wi’ any gazebo building or dismantling on the park – jist dae as yer telt! 🙂
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Jock Scot
Well what can I say?
No doubt I talked too much already due to the comapny I was in. Big thanks to Quine frae Angus for putting up and for putting up with me 🙂
Thanks to for Jock Scot and Ruglonian for the great “discussions” which were in no way “arguments” LOL.
Your meant to get wiser as you get older but I’ve found out that this is not true, I got a roll an sausage kindly made for me this morning by the Quine frae Angus.
Delicious and was just what I needed then she asks me “how did you enjoy the Vegan sausages and I’m like what? I’m a carnivore that was meat, please tell me that was meat.
It wasn’t so that’s a first and I’m all the better for it 🙂
pete the camera
6 years ago
Good one X_sticks I walked down the street with the bikers and could not believe how many there were as they just kept coming wonder if anyone knows how many rode past, and I should have thanked Jim T for the lift to the Clutha and Betty Boop for giving up her lift.
And we all must thank Ronnie as Betty has said for without his input over the weeks prior to the event the Wings stall would never have been so popular being so well stocked and run
Quinie frae Angus
6 years ago
Oh what an amazing day and night that was, marching along in such cheery cameraderie with so many Yessers and Wingers. Thanks for the company of Jock Scot, Donna Babington and Cactus as we ambled along the route, scooping up Ian Brotherhood and Alex Thepnr from the pub along the way. Then getting to Glasgow Green and spending the rest of the day hinging aboot the Wings stall, pauchling nips of the Old Pulteney raffle prize, courtesy of Big Ronnie Anderson (but don’t tell anybody this, it was supposed to be a secret and could be construed to be a secret cabal of dodgy Wingers misappropriating donated Wings funds).
The happy hubbub was punctuated by thrilling beats from the Sikhs for Yes drummers, and the exciting roar of the Yes Bikers as they thundered by. Even the packing up of the Wings stall at the end was a laugh, under Ronnie’s expert supervision. Who knew there was a set method and a cheeky hidden wee button to press to take down a gazebo correctly?
Topped off by a lovely evening drinking pints of cider in the sun outside the Clutha bar, and a long evening of “discussion” and more beers back at chez Quinie. Glad you enjoyed your veggie sausages, Alex, these will help ease your Sunday bowel movements – and an added bonus is that I’ve found your specs down the side of my couch. Heh heh.
New people I am delighted to have met in the flesh, at long last, included Smallaxe, K1, Lindsay Bruce, Macart, Blaze and Loach frae Skye and their Dad. Other old friends I glimpsed fleetingly but didn’t get a chance to speak to: Capella, Betty Boop and Irene King.
Feels so good, so comforting, and so motivating to feel the Yes movement stirring again in such a positive and determined fashion. A movement in which Wings and the Wingers are very much a key part, and have been since the very start.
Love you all and looking forward to the next event already.
Quinie frae Angus
6 years ago
I forgot to mention Gillian Ruglonian who did such a power of work at the Yes Rutherglen stall and who I think (if my hazy memory serves me correctly) purchased a bottle of whisky for the after-hours lock-in. Unfathomably this has remained unopened, so I intend to keep this and throw it in to the next Wings stall event as a “Raffle prize” (heh heh) along with a string of polystyrene cups….just to stiffen our resolves and Ronnie Anderson’s “reserves”…..
Back home after an incredible day yesterday. I met plenty of people whose names that I can now put a face to, like Macart, Capella, Quine frae Angus, Highland Wifie, Betty Boop and many old friends such as (in no particular order), Tinto Chiel whose indelible ‘Cerise Blush’ lipstick I’m still trying to remove from my shirt, Thepnr, Ian Brotherhood, Brian DTT, Hackalumpoff, XSticks, Cactus and my good friend K1.
My apologies if I have left anyone out but it was just such an overwhelmingly wonderful day full of smiles and hugs from everyone I met, I have no doubt that some of us will meet at the march in Dumfries on the 2nd of June, bring your smiles and hugs with you, I’ve got plenty more to give and receive when I next meet you all.
Lots of good speeches and music, tens of thousands of happy friendly people from all walks of life, tens of thousands more who were with us in spirit. Love and Peace was the order of the day for all of us who want Scotland to regain Her independence. I was proud to be amongst such good people.
Finally, the self-effacing Ronnie Anderson who says he is only a cog in a much larger wheel. A cog he may be, but that large wheel would be turning much more slowly without Ronnie’s indefatigable stamina and his ’soft smooth voice gently’ guiding all the generous volunteers who gave up so much of their own time to help out.
(Send my cut of the takings to the usual P.O.Box, Ronnie)
Namaste, my friends.
(The Spirit within me bows to the Spirit within you)
K1
6 years ago
I can only reiterate what we are all saying about yesterday, just a wonderful day, I didn’t do the march but arrived a bit later (caught up in the traffic, aye and ah wis wan o’ those drivers smiling and giving thumbs up as our paths criss crossed across the city 😉 )
So happy to have finally met some very familiar names on Wings…in no order whatsoever; Tinto (you suited the grunge ma dear, your sartorial pick was just right fir the weather 😉 ), Quinie, Highland Wifie, so glad you got home safe :-), the cool Cactus, Thpnr…loved your energy yesterday Alex, so upbeat and thank you for introducing me to Lizg…or as I call her ma fellow Cyberthug, wis like lookin’ in the mirror ;-). Macart, great pleasure to finally shake your hand. Capella :-), Ruglonian and XSticks. Lovely to see Crazycat, Bdtt and Pete the Camera again and of course Ronnie…who was very busy on this stall. But of course, the best to last to meet ma friend Smallaxe, that dapper gent wi the two tone shoes….’wottaguy’ right enough Tinto 😉
If I missed anyone out I’m sorry…great day, great people, we’re on our way.
Cactus
6 years ago
Heiding oot tae the West Endies for further entertainment…
Glasgow style.
Oh what a weekend! A cheers to all the groovy Wingers x.
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
What a great day that was.
After a couple of cans last night, thinking back on all the good pals I met and the new ones made, felt like this:
Sorry to have missed U at the stall Smallaxe, choking efter the march so started at the Braemar Bar! Tinto ditto!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Sorry I seem to have missed so many Wingers I had not met before but we really have to get a team foatie taken in future. Huge thanks to Big Ronnie, BDTT and “The Girls” for their efforts on the stall and generally.
@Smallaxe: FGS, it was Fuchsia Flush and acetone is your friend for that, mon vieux. Adding those two-tones of yours to my spring collection.
@K1: amen to all that. It was really great to meet yourself and Macart at last and have a natter, however short. I’ve been thinking about some of your wise comments and may communicate my thoughts to the Prince of Palermo.
Fred: don’t know how we managed to miss each other but we’ll discuss those place-names later, I hope.
I got quite emotional on the march at times seeing all the wee kids in the column and on the pavements and wondering what kind of Scotland they would see. I think that’s what keeps the oldsters like me going.
Glad in a way the SH has exposed itself as a Yoonsheet. That photo on the front page really shows it up. The change of editor has really worked from our point of view.
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
I see Nana is back on MT. PNR told me that Ronnie paid the ransom for her release with some of the takings from the stall.
Sadly, after the Clutha shenanigans there wasn’t enough to pay Rev Stu to release heedtracker.
Lookout for a scandal about Wings cash in the Sun next week.
@ Tinto, the Polis should have shoved the fascists 100 yards back from the march or collared the lot!
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
Just asked Jabberwocky to play Gil Scott-Heron and he did, within minutes!
First time I’ve ever had a song played on ‘radio’ and he’s playing some great stuff I’ve never ever heard. In a way it’s like the sessons we have here, but without all the bother of copying links etc.
Och, Fred, they were just ugly wee trogs and they contrasted beautifully with all the righteous on the march. I’ve seen a lot worse at the fitba’ when the SoW come to call.
Folk have to see the reality of these types and draw their own conclusions. The young shilpit ones down on Clyde Street looked a bit more dangerous IMO but they were well confined by the Poleis (for all Gaelic haters).
crazycat
6 years ago
Like everyone else, I had a great time renewing auld acquaintances and making new ones yesterday – and as ever missed a few people I’d have liked to meet. Good to see you all.
There’s always Dumfries:
Ian posted on the main thread about transport. Yes East Ayrshire very briefly discussed the possibility of hiring a minibus. If there were takers further afield, that would make it more viable.
We can be contacted via the shop at 31C Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock KA1 1QW, on Facebook and Twitter or YesEastAyrshire [at] gmail [dot] com.
K1.@ 7.34
It was so lovely to finally meet ye K1, us Cyberthugs must indeed co-ordinate,and I hope we meet again soon and often.
Cyberthuggery takes plannin!
…..
Thanks Alex for introducing me to K1, and for your efforts to help me find Smallaxe, although we didn’t manage it, (next time Smallaxe my friend)
I did get to meet your lovely better half and the pup,which was fantastic,as it’s always great to meet a fellow “dog lover”.
….. …….
As everyone was sayin a great day,met Gerry Parker before we even set off, Alex, Cactus, Quinie Fae Angus and Morag on the way…then at the Green too many to mention,and even then so many I missed.
Thanks to all the hard workers on the stalls, a long day for you guy’s, but you did the movement proud.
And a special thanks to a –Ronnie Sumbidy — for all his efforts… and,well,…
Cause he’s the wan wi money… apparently..
K1
6 years ago
Naebdy even commented oan ma alliteration…’criss crossed across the city’ wis (f)artful 🙂
Thepnr
6 years ago
@K1
I jist didnae get it 🙂 🙂 You need to give me a clue.
K1
6 years ago
Ah wis driving tae the Green, and as I realised I was behind the march, changed route, so as I attempted tae weave my way down I kept crossing paths wi the march itself ergo ‘our paths ‘criss crossed across the city’. 🙂
K1
6 years ago
Saying ‘criss crossed across the city’ is a moothful…say it oot loud. But it’s good alliteration on the page. ;-), oh I”ve just commented on ma alliteration…that’ll do me 🙂
Didn’t manage to make it to see you as planned on Saturday night. Sorry but I allowed myself to be waylaid by all those shiny happy people in the Clutha.
I was so shiny and happy myself that I just wanted it to keep going and it did for quite a bit 🙂
Not a problem, Alex. I had a large glass of Remy Martin and then collapsed into bed, tired but delighted at the thousands of people who marched on Saturday. We’ll meet again soon.
Hey sunny Scotland, it’s been a looooong weekend and still is, still in the West Endies, everything’s on topic right now, cause now is the time, burp!
Go Glasgow!
yesindyref2
6 years ago
So basically speaking while they all chow down to bully beef and baked beans because they’re not worth any more, and get their next thrilling lecture about tactics from Noddy with Big Ears doing the slide show, no offence to either of them, it’s interesting to see the latest focus of attack is on the Wings stall which underlines its importance in providing a focus, material, a meeting place and a social reinvigoration for YES, congrats to those who started it probably funding it out their own pockets.
Got to admit being a bit of a cynic at times well I have supported Indy for 46 years after all you need a thick skin, I’m gobsmacked by this march, the dedication of those who attended and organised it and the reactions “out there”.
Fred
6 years ago
Well said kid, a gobsmacking march. We are the people!
Well, I flaked out last night after I’d caught up with the WOS comments and never ate my kebab (from Corfu, the best kebab emporium in Dundee) so it’s on the menu for tonight. Thus I didn’t get to post a comment last night.
Saturday was phenomenal. As the front of the march came into the Green, I took a daunder up towards the Nelson monument for a better view. As I watched the sea of Saltires coming down the road in the park, I got the shiver down the back. “Phenomenal”, I said out loud to myself.
I reckon it took an hour and 20 minutes for the entire march to get into the Green. I was telling peeps to go to the road bhind the WOS stall and then look down the road – it was a sea of Saltires for ages.
Sorry to miss Ian B but did reacquaint with various Wingers, althought I couldn’t always put a name to the face.
Must mention Tartanpigsy – his crowdfunder in 2014 (10,000 flags for YES) was one of the major tools in the increase in the YES vote towards the vote in September.
Last year, at Glasgow Green, because he couldn’t get down himself, he got a pal to drop off a pile of YES car stickers at the WOS stall – much appreciated and dispersed.
A word about WOS stall finances.
EVERYONE who helped out on the stall was made aware of the takings and what was happening with them. If you want to know the figures, GET INVOLVED! Don’t sit sniping from the WINGS…
Hope to see y’all in Dumfries – and Inverness. (Don’t know about Bannockburn ‘at the merment”…
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Brian Doonthetoon
A word about WOS stall finances.
EVERYONE who helped out on the stall was made aware of the takings and what was happening with them. If you want to know the figures, GET INVOLVED! Don’t sit sniping from the WINGS…
Very well said Brian. Cheers from an adopted Dundonian 🙂
There’s a couple of posters in the H’ald I always hit the quote button because they change their original posting after a reply rather than admit they were wrong. Just added another to the list, and he even compounded his error by later saying he’d made the change to “clarify” it, whereas it was just plain wrong the first time, hence actually admitting he’d made the change. So he basically admitted he changed it without the usual decent thing of either putting at the end something like “edit: changed should to should not!” or whatever – plus maiking a quick posting in reply to whoever “sorry, changed above as it was wrong”. And kept going trying to pretend my reply was to the amended version! Another thing he said was I denied something which I didn’t even bother addressing, so another thing to do is make it clear I’m only commenting on the one bit I’m commenting on.
So there you go, you learn something new every day. Not important at the moment “now is not the time”, but techniques need honing for the big battle ahead! This poster by the way is a frequent one with lists of prepared stuff I haven’t bothered with normally, can’t be bothered doing the research, this was just his first sentence which implied something vital, whereas it was actually a bit interesting if the truth had been told to start with – not something some of the worst unionists do right enough. By the way cleaning caches (I use ccleaner) saves money I never paid in the first place, ‘cept for the odd couple of pro-Indy SH paper ones when it was pro-Indy quite a long time ago and over the hills and far away. Puck that for a game of soldiers.
Don’t worry if you didn’t read this, I’m just wittering on before finally hitting the pit after another all-nighter. Highlights for me though the old saying “And the Truth shall set you free” – an advantage unionists just don’t have over us independentistas. For many of then their only tool IS lies or at least misrepresentation. Which is why it’s vital we don’t do the same, even accidentally. And why at times Indy people get pissed off with me “correcting” them. Please, if I puck up do the same to me. Or tell me to puck opp.
Mmm, night night, sleep tight, don’t let SiU bite. They’re really not very good at this trolling stuff all the same, complete amateur dunderheids in fact. Good for a laugh!
Fred
6 years ago
The Glasgow Herald used to be an organ of some standing tae!
K1
6 years ago
The 2 guys constantly looking to the ‘Fat cunt’ shouting guy, how sad to ‘look up’ to that angry wee guy? Is that your role model in life, is that a man…standing on a street shouting about Fenians, fat cunts, poofs and faggots?
No. It’s a sad ignorant bigot wi very low educational input…fear is what I see in their faces, acting like ‘hard men’, but really just wee scared boys inside.
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
@BDTT –
Sorry to have missed you – that’s mibbe first time we’ve not crossed paths at one of these things.
Dumfries!
🙂
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Hi IanB.
I used to have a pair of dumfries but the @®$€ wore out and I had to get myself a new red jacket, to cover the gap.
crazycat
6 years ago
@ Ian B – if you’re still here:
apparently there is now a post up on Yes East Ayrshire’s Facebook page about the possibility of a bus to Dumfries. If you don’t have a Facebook account (I don’t), there are other ways of contacting us that I listed above.
ronnie anderson
6 years ago
I can’t commit to the Bannockburn March as I might not be available awaiting on a cataract op , but theres nothing stopping other Wingers from doing it Gizbos here as is the stock .
I’ll loan you that CND shirt if you like it so much, even although everybody knows that you’re too sexy for a shirt. Maybe you would look better in my old tie-dyed cheesecloth sarong that I used to wear while I blackleaded the grate.
Let me know what your preference is.
I prefer the green organic hemp, preferably Sativa as the Indica can make me a tad lazy.
How and soever, either strain will turn the heads of the Laydees, particularly those who had the good fortune to live through the 1960s and can’t remember much about it, or so they insist!
Unless you get caught by the polis? Then you may have to swear on the book that has this passage in it;
“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
WTF!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
The air’s getting a bit thick in here. Haven’t had as much fun since K1 outed my quiff:
You’ll be more familiar than most of us with Dumfries – do you reckon it can handle a major influx on June 2nd? Raised this with TC earlier – may have to get there early-doors to get parking…
It’s no big deal anyway – more important that we get a significant turnout. It won’t make the national ‘news’, aye, that’s a given, but it’ll be big for the local papers and who knows what knock-on that could have in the tea-shops, pubs and care-home social rooms in the folowing weeks?
Tina Turner: “Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu” (Peace Mantra); link to youtube.com
William Wallace
6 years ago
@ Sma
Do you no bide near Dumfries? I ken you’re in that region somewhere. I’m thinking aboot bringing the caravan up for the Dumfries gathering and taking a wee holiday with significant other and the wee man at the same time. I was wondering if you could recommend any really nice caravan sites nearby.
I’ve looked at a few toward the Solway coast area but, was wondering if there are any others nearer Dumfries that you know of (so I can be easily picked up after a few bevvies later that night 😉 ).
Sorry I missed you all at Glasgow gathering. I couldn’t pub it as I had to drive later in the day. I’m hoping third times the charm. 🙂
I live about 15mls outside Dumfries in Gretna, the Hoddom Castle site below has always been good and it is also licenced (I used to have a house on the estate) but if you want to be closer to Dumfries then have a look at the ones below.
You are welcome in my home at any time, remember.
I think I may have posted this info before but, what the help, It came into my head tonight, for some reason.
It was released as single around 1974. I thought it was a rather decent treatment of the song. Of course, because I liked it, and bought it, it was never a hit.
Michael McAbe, Smalaxe, BDTT, etc. If you can make the time listen to this compilation from John Prine, similar to Van the man but less sax etc.
Some good anti-war-age- etc stuff.
He must be a definite yesser.
Smallaxe@ 11:52 pm
Still here, That was the the song that got me back to Van the man after having had VM banished by the loons in their hearing !
I was working on a new build power station, around 2000, in NI and heard it on local radio, in the most greasy of greasy spoons site canteens waiting for a Bacon Bap (Monster Bacon Roll to us but just a wee fry on a roll to them) LOL
I think he wrote it for the Good Friday Agreement when Clinton came to visit Belfast.
Saw him about 10 times since and the b*gg^r never cracks a light to the audience. Except, one time in Dublin when a Canadian called him out to sing “Listen to The Lion” and he did it !
I’ve heard that he can come across as thrawn, to put it mildly, I first heard him when I was camping below the Cobbler up at loch long, Arrochar.
I was about 14 or 15 yrs old and sitting in a small tent in the pissing rain at 1 am with two mates when ‘Them’ came on the transistor radio with this; link to youtube.com
🙂
yesindyref2
6 years ago
@William Wallace
There’s a nice one at Sandyhills on the coast, about 12 miles south and a bit west round the coast road which is quite quiet apart from rush hour when it’s a wee bit busier. Sandy beach, small camp shop, bigger one at Colvend or New Abbey. Don’t know what facilities it has. Mmm
The mother-in-law (this isn’t a joke) is very highly strung at the best of times but she’s moving home soon and has been preparing for months so she’s ultra-stressed. My missus got her some hemp oil from the magic Police/phone box on Sauchiehall St, told her it was ‘natural’ stuff and made her take it. Her blood pressure dropped overnight (seriously), the flitting is imminent, but she’s totally chilled and just spends the entire time saying ‘what-ever’. Soo-perb!
🙂
On the general subject of which, I don’t think we’ve had this one before. BBC Scotland guy, isn’t he?
Regarding your esteemed MiL, Ian, very good news on all fronts: I didn’t know that wee booth offered such delights.
That clip reminded me of one of my barbecues. Think the trouble started when I attempted to grill halibut wrapped up in “banana leaves”.
Venison banger, anyone?
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
They’re awfie dear, btw.
😛
Geddit?
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
@TC –
🙂
The MT has been mercifully free of Own-Goals this evening, eh?
Another reason to be cheerful…
Have a braw weekend there mister, an aw ye other dear auld WOS faces…
🙂 😉 🙂
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Good morning Ian and all. And the very same to you. Derby day today at the fitba’ so brushing my Doc Martens and de-oosing my Crombie coat with vermilion linings.
Just heading to the M/T to monitor any O.G./bacon roll activity.
Is Slacker Cairns back? Is there honey still for tea? Was it for this the clay grew tall?
Lovely morning Where I Am. “The shy bud, bedewed yet pert/ shrinks from the frigid early air” (peotry).
Pleased to see that you’ve taken my advice re. plates, It’s a pity that we didn’t meet years ago or I would have passed on the secret knowledge of having breakfast in bed.
I got married on a Saturday, the following morning I made a beautifully cooked and presented breakfast and carried it up to the new Mrs SA, including a fragrant array of freshly cut flowers, of course.
Mrs SA was delighted by this loving gesture and exclaimed, “Oh darling (that’s me) thank you, I’ve never seen such a beautifully cooked and presented breakfast with fragrant freshly cut flowers before”
I said, “Well now that you’ve seen how it’s done I’ll be expecting you to treat me to the same joyful experience every morning from now on”
which appears to have escaped the cognescenti. Maybe it was $h!† and I didn’t recognise it as such. Onnyhoo, unusually for a Friday evening, there were only 4 comments before morning awoke. Wir yi a’ pi$$€d?
Ce la vie…
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
From Eurovision tonight, I think the UK has burned its boats.
I thought the UK entry from Surie was the most classic Eorovision song, the performance marred by the intervention, but it was a fine song, that, unusaully, I found myself singing along with.
It looks like Europe has decided that the UK is not ‘one of us’.
No, I AM off to Crete for a quickie (steady!) but Spanish ain’t much use there, unless I meet a Spanish waiter.
BTW, has Baroness Smith not spoken yet in the HoL? She seems to have racked up about £600K in expenses according to Wiki (I ken, I ken).
Made the mistake of watching the SP debate and first up was Neil “Pea Soup” Findlay who could barely read his own question. Tory plan seems to be to have as many silly interventions as poss.
Thanks, Michael. No.1 was the hoopoe, one of my favourite burds (apart from Paula R, obvs).
hackalumpoff: shouldn’t you be cooking a 5-courser for SWMBO?
Right about L___k, btw. What a silly sausage!
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
Serious question – has the phrase ‘Cobblers to the King (or Queen)’ ever been used for real, as-in by shoemakers ‘by Royal Appointment’ etc?
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
No, Ian , but the British Beef Industry has previously endorsed the motto “Bullocks to the Queen”, and why not, he BarryNormaned?
Thanks, cearc: I was amazed 😉
Look, I’m only going to perfect my tan-and-tartan mankini concept for the Dumfries march. Trying to give that style icon, Smallaxe, a run for his money. The lallies looking toned already, tbh.
Then I’m going to park my saltire on Fluffy’s lawn.
Ooh, matron…
Fred
6 years ago
“Cobblers to the Queen,” Ian, of all the ancient Scottish Trades Incorporations only the Hammermen & the Cordiners (cobblers) have the crown on their arms, which doesn’t answer your question!
@ Tinto, Findlay, lord Fauldhoose in Waiting!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@Fred: I have responded on the M/T, mon vieux.
Neil is a pair wee sowill.
He’s no wice, eh?
Fred
6 years ago
Failed brickie!
Fred
6 years ago
In fact, a touch of the Chick Murray tae!
William Wallace
6 years ago
@ Sma 10 May, 2018 at 1:24 pm
You are welcome in my home at any time, remember.
Totally appreciated and much love and respect but, I don’t want to put on you the now. I’d like to take the opportunity to get you a wee single malt in Dumfries though ;).
@YIR2 Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out. Hope ah the mad squad in aff topic are keeping well and hope to see yiz ah in Dumfries shortly.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Bored?
Listless?
Regular but constipated?
Need cobwebs removed? Press below for quick relief:
Fred: “It’s a small world but I wouldn’t like to paint it.”
(Chic. Murray)
crazycat
6 years ago
Transport to Dumfries (and back if you’re good)
Yes East Ayrshire are contemplating hiring a coach. We would need 42 people to commit (20-seater costs nearly as much, so would be considerably more per head).
I assume we would start in Kilmarnock, but I suppose that could be slightly flexible. At present I’m just asking arround, but if anyone would be interested, please post here so I can report back and we’ll decide if we’re going to do it.
Ta.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
I need intellectual help (behave, you lot!).
A while ago a sage Winger amongst us (Brian DTT?) posted a link to a series of recordings of allied POWs in Germany post-WW1 by German linguists.
I remember being particularly interested to hear voices from Hamilton in 1918. It will come as little surprise to the soffisticates on here that they sound amazingly like our denizens today, such is the power of Scots dialects and accents.
Problem is, my old PC died without warning with its Favourites, so does anyone have the link?
*Stares hard at BDTT*
Large malt of choice @Dumfries for the lucky winner.
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
Dinnae think it was me. I have no recollection of Hamilton or POWs.
I’ll still settle for a bottle of Malt as a salve to my ignorance…
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Thanks, BDTT.
A bottle, you say?
Howsaboot a 1/4 gill for your general fandabbydoziness?
So who’s the guilty party then?
Cactus
6 years ago
Ahm here, batter in dare main thread, ahm having a party.
It’s FUN!
Fred
6 years ago
@ Tinto U mean there were Cameronians who surrendered!
Speaking of cobblers, did U catch Cameron Macneish on the Cobbler tonight on 2. Scary Biscuits!
yesindyref2
6 years ago
@William Wallace
Yes, it’s a nice area. Brighouse Bay, same company, is a bigger one probably more leisure facilities, but a fair way west of that one. Both are sometimes customers of mine but no other interest.
17 Black, good luck and take care. Most of all enjoy yourself 🙂
Cactus
6 years ago
Cheers buddy, good to be here.
I may quote lines from the film, randomly…
Welcome Summer.
Cactus
6 years ago
Bor Gullet.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@Fred: I missed that ‘cos I don’t watch VichyVision no more. MacNeish must be one of the few Yessers to get a gig on the BBC. The scary bit at the top discombobulates one somewhat (code for “Hoorin’ ___k!”).
Yes, the Cameronians were a thrawn bunch and brave but I believe the Seaforths simply wiped out a bunch of MPs who were sent into their section of the line. Something I was reading recently and must chase up.
That’s the one, Smallaxe. Really appreciate that: large Remy M. will be awaiting in Dumfries, and a pickled gerkin/packet of Quavers si tu l’en veut. Link safely pouched in my faves again.
Fine day down here. Just seen a pair of bullfinches in a bush in my garden: really beautiful.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
“Gherkin”, obvs. Sometimes cried cornichon in bourgeois parts of Lanarkshire (if you can find them).
Daisy Walker
6 years ago
I had a rant the other day, about the missed opportunities Perthshire SNP officials keep missing, in relation to leaving no stone unturned for getting a positive message out to the public about Scotland, about the real threats of Brexit, and the health reasons behind the Baby Box.
I’m aware some did not like the tone – for which I apologise.
I’m aware others did not like or did not agree with the contents. Specifically with regards utilising the front windows of the SNP Offices – it was posted that there are strict rules and regulations preventing them from being used in such a manner, as a Constituency Office (quite rightly) has to serve all the constituents.
Being a thrawn wee bugger at times (my most endearing feature if I’m honest), I wanted to know if this was an example of ‘truthiness’, and specifically, exactly, definitively what are the rules and regs on this – and how can we legitimately get round them.
So I made 2 phone calls – it didn’t take long – I phoned IPSA – The Independent Political Standards Authority, and from them I phoned The Commission for MP’s Standards. (This might not be the exact name, but I’m committed to finishing this post so can’t go back to check, but you get the gist).
Both agencies confirmed, with regards the livery/posters on Constituency Office Windows
1/ As the office is funded through public money, it cannot be used as a campaign office – during elections, (when they are used as campaign officers) no office rent expenses are claimed, which keeps it legal.
2/ There should be no party logos, an unwritten rule being – the office serves all constituents.
Thereafter – there are no strict guidelines, no written rules and no legislation, no nothing.
Perth SNP Office on Glasgow Road, remains a poor, shabby looking thing, which tells passing motorist nothing, which tells those waiting at the bus stop – nothing, which tells the people walking into or from town – nothing.
I want to see, in that window, a big, beautiful poster of that magnificent Queensferry Bridge crossing the Forth – on time and under budget, with a great big thank you to all the contractors and businesses in the Perthshire area listed, along with the number of jobs, the number of apprenticeships completed.
That’s not party political – that’s self confident, eye catching and positive. And it should have been done quite a few yesterdays ago.
Yes we can, Now we must.
Capella
6 years ago
@ Daisy Walker – agree about the iconic bridge. It would make a brilliant poster as the image speaks for itself. Ditto the baby box.
I wasn’t aware that there should be no party logo. As I recall it, the offices I see have nothing but party logos. Swift replacement with bridge posters might be required!
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
For any Marvin Gaye fans…
Just found this on YT, a version of What’s Going On, never heard it before. Soo-perb!
Daisy Walker @ 10.53
Yes I agree Daisy, the office Windows should be classy,smart
and above all Scottish.
Nothing wrong in takin a wee bit o’ pride in there appearance,and promoting Scotland and the same time.
I’m all for anything that chip’s away at the cringe!
The Bridge is a perfect example,infact all three of them are!
@Daisy Walker – I agree too. No office should look scruffy, let alone an MPs. And why not advertise the achievements of the occupant – free prescriptions, baby boxes, Borders Railway, Qferry crossing etc etc etc?
Cactus
6 years ago
Aye am with the force and the force is with me 🙂
Cactus
6 years ago
And aye am one.
Evening Wingers.
William Wallace
6 years ago
Pit this on the MT but, eh’ll pit it here an ah. Ony help appreciated.
William Wallace says:
18 May, 2018 at 2:25 am
Eh’ve been writing some wee topical ditties recently that eh wiz gonna pit on twitter. Eh need a backdrop image that would mak space fir a wee bit o poetry (Eh ken you hate it Stu ya big jessie) but, eh am shite at art.
If anybody could mak a nice indy focused backdrop fir iz, wi a wee bit o space for the written word on it – eh would really appreciate it (thistles lions and saltire style). Eh’ve a few ideas aboot how eh want it to look and eh dinnae mind paying fir yir time.
If onybody could dae that fir iz, eh would be forever in yir debt. Giz a shout on aff topic if you have the skills iy.
Love and respect tae ah the wingers fir whaz like yiz? Eh nane iy. ? ?
That’s me booked for Dumfries. Managed to get a hotel room for £30 close to the centre of Dumfries. Sorted. See you all there. 🙂
William Wallace
6 years ago
Meant to say, if anyone is south of Dumfries and needs a lift up on the Saturday morning and/or a lift back on the Sunday morning/afternoon, please let me know.
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
@WW –
Hope to see you in Dumfries brither!
Here’s something special late at night. Blows my mind watching this, every time.
What a right sentimental bunch ye aw are, the minute theres a wedding.
Tae the tune oh ‘Dunbartons drums, they are sae bonny, and they remind me oh ma Johnny’, etc
Dunbartons Earls they are sae ginnger
I think we should, show them the fingger
And nae matter how they try tae skewit
I think his dad’s a bloody Hewitt
PS… turns out it really hard to spell ginnger, who knew.
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
Meant to say yesterday, commiserations to Motherwell. Now you know how it feels after your lot beat United 4-3 LOL
“All Along The Watchtower” Playing For Change-Song Around The World; link to youtube.com
(o)”(o) Watching!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@Thepnr: sitting in my tartan mankini in a bar in Sissi (no unseemly jokes, please) on Crete, musing upon our defeat by a better team. Never in it.
I am finding this ouzo stuff quite medicinal in the circs but am keeping up the mineral water and bending exercises for Dumfries, obvs.
Hope to see some of you soffisticates there. I’ll be day-tripping it with my handler but am finding a big enough flag pole hard to find. Didn’t think my room-the-shouthers look really worked at GG.
Fashion can be so fickle…..
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
With all the mentions of Murphy online today, I think it is appropriate to link, again, to this classic piece of Cinematography.
1 Emilia-Romagna, Italy
2 Cantabria, Spain
3 Friesland, the Netherlands
4 Kosovo
5 Provence, France 6 Dundee, Scotland 🙂
7 Small Cyclades, Greece
8 Vilnius, Lithuania
9 Vipava Valley, Slovenia
10 Tirana, Albania
Thepnr
6 years ago
I doubt that the UK would continue paying Scottish pensioners after Independence. I think from day 1 of Independence the Scottish government would take responsibility for that. Of course a deal would have to be worked out with the rUK based on what NI everyone in Scotland has already paid and not just current pensioners all future ones too for a certain time.
Who knows what that agreement might be, a reduction in our share of the debt or guaranteed payments direct to the SG every year for whatever period of time it took.
Pension liabilities are huge and that’s a debt owed by Westminster to all of Scotland’s workers that have paid in. The SG will decide what the appropriate pension is in this country, no one else. I’d expect that eventually to be a more generous payment than we currently have and hopefully all fully paid for in the brand Scottish currency.
To anybody who is listening to my show on Argyll Independent Radio(online)tonight I’ll be having a few words with Ken MacDonald of I-Scot magazine just after 7pm before he talks to the Forward Shop in Dunoon
Jim Davidson
6 years ago
What Davidson (no relation, at least I hope no) Murdo, Carlaw, och aw them fear the most, That when all this is history, there names will be, being kindly. Shite
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
This popped into my heid this afternoon and I have no idea why.
Ah was restauranting earlier on yesterday somewhere in Scotland. Ordered yer homemade Lasagne… turns out it they didnae come wae sides as standard east coast like.
Had to order side fries n coleslaw.
What the FUCK is that awe about like?!
Love Scotland.
Cake.
Cactus
6 years ago
Ra Blues Brothers.
ITV4+0.
Da da, da ra da ra, dar ah.
The time is…
Cactus
6 years ago
C’est bon soir.
Maintenant.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@Ian B: great choice. Was told at school I walked just like the PP.
Fred: hot hot hot here but a big thunderstorm early this morning. Nice breezes on the north coast. Going up into the hills today to see the eagles and vultures. Reading Beevor’s book on the Cretan campaign. Normally like his stuff but his English officer class background come through too much with characters like Binky this or Bongo that and their eccentric Boys’ Own Paper jolly japes. Will persevere, though. Only Scots so far are a nanny to an officer and a drunk Black Watch driver *grinds teeth*.
I’m going to scweam and scweam and scweam unless our new currency is called the Tinto, soanumurr.
As Thepnr said, let’s get free first, then all thing are possible.
@ Tinto, that ensemble is just about what the Scotia habituees are wearing this season so it might be a tricksy extracting a Laphroaig aff ye kid!
Thanks, Fred. Will default to my Darth Vader with Orc boots combo in that case.
It’s tough being a trend-setter.
@ Tinto, if you intend wearing that lot fae Kelvingrove U could end up in intensive. Just sayin like!
*Muses thereon*
Good point, Fred. Will just go undercover in normal motley.
I was researching something on-line and I came across this instead.
Strangely, I don’t remember it being mentioned on the BBC at the time. The second film clip has been blocked by the corporation “for copyright reasons” although you can find the excerpt elsewhere on the interwebthingy if you make a little effort. It shows two of its journalists telling porkies on air while the said building is still clearly standing and the whole sordid shitfest was the basis of the English gent’s defence. He has made an interesting documentary which is to be found on YT.
So, just in case you had run out of reasons not to pay a TV licence or watch MSM ever again:
link to geopolitics.co
Serendipity, ya bass.
@K1
I know you read here and the other thread is now dead I wondered though if you remember meeting Robin who claims to have met you.
“Thepnr” asks why I called “K1” a “She”? That is simple numbnut,,it is because she is a female.
Well she was the last time I met her. She was with her girlfriend to be exact. But like Liz g, these two “Females” have become very aggressive and Butch for some reason.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
I know for certain I’ve never met with Robin, what about anyone else? Wings night, march or rally? Of course maybe Robin knows K1 through nothing to do with Independence.
In an earlier post he had this to say in a response to Liz g which is just a tad weird.
I don’t want to get the jail for rolling about the street with some thug from Wings.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
I think ‘off-topic’ has being going long enough for this to be O/T.
I’ve just been watching the prog about elements on BBC4 and, just at the end, mt brainbockers started grinding.
When we talk about a year in any previous century, we tend to say seventeen o seven, or eighteen ninety three or nineteen fifty two.
WHY is it, for this century, the preferred media description seems to be two thousand and seven, rather than twenty o seven?
mt = my, obviously, an’ thah’…
@Brian Doonthetoon
Quite right because when we get to 2107 we’re not going to say the year “two thousand one hundred and seven” are we?
No we’ll obviously say Twenty One O’Seven
That is if the human race actually reaches 2107 still alive.
link to youtube.com
Relax, guys.
link to youtube.com
“And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
By the purification of the motive
In the ground of our beseeching.”
Donovan:”Turquoise”
link to youtube.com
See you all on Saturday.
😉
Thepnr @ 8.26
That’s no all that was weird,but I’ll tell ye better when I see ye.
…………..
Anyone
Is there a time to all meet up on Saturday?
See y’all tomorrow marchers of freedom, bring yer families, pets and all, an ah’ll be looking out for you Jock Scot, see ye at the same bit as last time 🙂
26 hours remaining to go…
I hope you all have a great time tomorrow. Just don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, apart from dancing. Do lots of dancing to make up for me not being able to!
Grandchildren on the way from the airport will be here within the hour. First 3 incubator chicks just transferred to a cage for their benefit, a few more on the way.
See youse all soon.
I have a big flag pole, room for a Wings flag if anybody has a spare one tomorrow.
We’re leaving now for Glasgow, see you all tomorrow.
“Hold On I’m Coming”
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe has left the building.
🙂
Hope plenty of folk manage to the march tomorrow. Hope to meet some wingers over there.
Archie (not Erchie),
Hey, long time no see on the threads. Glad you’re going, have fun.
Utter disgrace. Time the Express got onto this issue. Since the SNP came into power in 2007 about 670,000 people in Scotland have died. What is Nicola Sturgeon doing about this?
Shall be mentioning this disgrace on my radio slot tonight…..and the big march.
“Comin Down the Road!”
I stood in a queue in the Alloa RBS branch this morning for nearly 25 minutes. I stood in a queue in the same branch for over 20 minutes last week. The branch is shutting. There is no sense in that move, and the staff have been told not to speak about the situation. I despair.
Walking shoes- check.
Water bottle – check.
Saltire- check.
Bus ticket – check.
Happy face – check.
Looking forward to tomorrow and meeting some folks.
@ cearc: oh Ive been lurking and taking it all in. Time to spread the word again 😉
Bus ticket booked for tomorrow. Planning to get there if it takes me all day – which it will. I don’t want to miss the big day. Hope to meet up with you at the Wings tent.
@Archie (not Erchie)
I have a Wings flag for you and very happy for you to have it if you’re going to be waving it all about 🙂
I doubt there is any chance of meeting you before the march starts so you will have to pick it up from Ronnie Anderson at the Wings stall in the Green.
I should be hanging about too but just in case ask Ronnie.
@Capella
Glad to hear you will make it after all, well done 🙂
@ Thepnr – thx – will get there about 11 so hope to catch up with the last bit of the march. Will look out for the Wings stall at the Green.
Something that I hope will put you in a good mood for the march in Glasgow tomorrow. Let’s have a good time, we’re still young as long as we think we are 🙂
link to youtube.com
This is GREAT.
Hope your pulling up the laces on those hiking boots.
link to youtube.com
Gutted I cant be there on the March today. Hope you all have a great day though. link to youtube.com
This one is a special request for Liz g and her daughters dog Radar that I met today at the Green. Was a good day enjoy the tune 🙂
link to youtube.com
Thank you Thepnr, that was great,and very appropriate. LOL
What’s in a name eh!
Aren’t we being cryptic……..
Hi all that were at Glasgow green good to see you all, and thanks to Jock for making sure I caught a taxi from the Clutha to the train station
Still having a good night in Glasgow after a very good day. I thought or a song for a new friend I met today, that was K1.
Here’s your tune K1 🙂
link to youtube.com
@pete the camera
Great to see you yesterday Pete – along with all the other wingers too many to mention, but I thought you’d like this wee video of the Yes bikers with Pete strolling along taking in the sights!
link to twitter.com
What a braw day – only wish I could have stayed over and partied on in the Clutha with all you lovely folks. Ach, well, next time!
Hi Pete, hope you got home ok. Cheers Oatcakes for a place to crash and for a change not having to pelt up to the station from the Clutha. Shame aboot the early departure Cactus and cheers to Alex for confirming that I do indeed snore. Hats off to everyone else who gallantly helped to make lots of dosh for the next crack ‘n’ smack party.
What a great day. Love working in the park amongst a’ these happy folk.
Apologies that JimT and moi, and Annie, Irene and Brian didn’t get much of a chat with a lot of the visitors to the stall. We were on “piece work” fur a hard gaffer ;-). Nae sittin’ doon for us, ye ken 😉
Sorry, didn’t get to The Clutha; visited son after the park and were a bit sair; auld legs LOL.
Seriously, a really inspiring day. See y’ll next time round.
A word for Mr Ronnie Anderson. Ronnie is a national treasure. No, that disnae mean he should be in a museum! He’s really a big sweetie, but, ye’ve no’ tae tell onybody. Works his socks off for Scotland and Wings and will help wi’ any gazebo building or dismantling on the park – jist dae as yer telt! 🙂
@Jock Scot
Well what can I say?
No doubt I talked too much already due to the comapny I was in. Big thanks to Quine frae Angus for putting up and for putting up with me 🙂
Thanks to for Jock Scot and Ruglonian for the great “discussions” which were in no way “arguments” LOL.
Your meant to get wiser as you get older but I’ve found out that this is not true, I got a roll an sausage kindly made for me this morning by the Quine frae Angus.
Delicious and was just what I needed then she asks me “how did you enjoy the Vegan sausages and I’m like what? I’m a carnivore that was meat, please tell me that was meat.
It wasn’t so that’s a first and I’m all the better for it 🙂
Good one X_sticks I walked down the street with the bikers and could not believe how many there were as they just kept coming wonder if anyone knows how many rode past, and I should have thanked Jim T for the lift to the Clutha and Betty Boop for giving up her lift.
And we all must thank Ronnie as Betty has said for without his input over the weeks prior to the event the Wings stall would never have been so popular being so well stocked and run
Oh what an amazing day and night that was, marching along in such cheery cameraderie with so many Yessers and Wingers. Thanks for the company of Jock Scot, Donna Babington and Cactus as we ambled along the route, scooping up Ian Brotherhood and Alex Thepnr from the pub along the way. Then getting to Glasgow Green and spending the rest of the day hinging aboot the Wings stall, pauchling nips of the Old Pulteney raffle prize, courtesy of Big Ronnie Anderson (but don’t tell anybody this, it was supposed to be a secret and could be construed to be a secret cabal of dodgy Wingers misappropriating donated Wings funds).
The happy hubbub was punctuated by thrilling beats from the Sikhs for Yes drummers, and the exciting roar of the Yes Bikers as they thundered by. Even the packing up of the Wings stall at the end was a laugh, under Ronnie’s expert supervision. Who knew there was a set method and a cheeky hidden wee button to press to take down a gazebo correctly?
Topped off by a lovely evening drinking pints of cider in the sun outside the Clutha bar, and a long evening of “discussion” and more beers back at chez Quinie. Glad you enjoyed your veggie sausages, Alex, these will help ease your Sunday bowel movements – and an added bonus is that I’ve found your specs down the side of my couch. Heh heh.
New people I am delighted to have met in the flesh, at long last, included Smallaxe, K1, Lindsay Bruce, Macart, Blaze and Loach frae Skye and their Dad. Other old friends I glimpsed fleetingly but didn’t get a chance to speak to: Capella, Betty Boop and Irene King.
Feels so good, so comforting, and so motivating to feel the Yes movement stirring again in such a positive and determined fashion. A movement in which Wings and the Wingers are very much a key part, and have been since the very start.
Love you all and looking forward to the next event already.
I forgot to mention Gillian Ruglonian who did such a power of work at the Yes Rutherglen stall and who I think (if my hazy memory serves me correctly) purchased a bottle of whisky for the after-hours lock-in. Unfathomably this has remained unopened, so I intend to keep this and throw it in to the next Wings stall event as a “Raffle prize” (heh heh) along with a string of polystyrene cups….just to stiffen our resolves and Ronnie Anderson’s “reserves”…..
Smallaxe Says:
What a day.
🙂
Back home after an incredible day yesterday. I met plenty of people whose names that I can now put a face to, like Macart, Capella, Quine frae Angus, Highland Wifie, Betty Boop and many old friends such as (in no particular order), Tinto Chiel whose indelible ‘Cerise Blush’ lipstick I’m still trying to remove from my shirt, Thepnr, Ian Brotherhood, Brian DTT, Hackalumpoff, XSticks, Cactus and my good friend K1.
My apologies if I have left anyone out but it was just such an overwhelmingly wonderful day full of smiles and hugs from everyone I met, I have no doubt that some of us will meet at the march in Dumfries on the 2nd of June, bring your smiles and hugs with you, I’ve got plenty more to give and receive when I next meet you all.
Lots of good speeches and music, tens of thousands of happy friendly people from all walks of life, tens of thousands more who were with us in spirit. Love and Peace was the order of the day for all of us who want Scotland to regain Her independence. I was proud to be amongst such good people.
Finally, the self-effacing Ronnie Anderson who says he is only a cog in a much larger wheel. A cog he may be, but that large wheel would be turning much more slowly without Ronnie’s indefatigable stamina and his ’soft smooth voice gently’ guiding all the generous volunteers who gave up so much of their own time to help out.
(Send my cut of the takings to the usual P.O.Box, Ronnie)
Namaste, my friends.
(The Spirit within me bows to the Spirit within you)
I can only reiterate what we are all saying about yesterday, just a wonderful day, I didn’t do the march but arrived a bit later (caught up in the traffic, aye and ah wis wan o’ those drivers smiling and giving thumbs up as our paths criss crossed across the city 😉 )
So happy to have finally met some very familiar names on Wings…in no order whatsoever; Tinto (you suited the grunge ma dear, your sartorial pick was just right fir the weather 😉 ), Quinie, Highland Wifie, so glad you got home safe :-), the cool Cactus, Thpnr…loved your energy yesterday Alex, so upbeat and thank you for introducing me to Lizg…or as I call her ma fellow Cyberthug, wis like lookin’ in the mirror ;-). Macart, great pleasure to finally shake your hand. Capella :-), Ruglonian and XSticks. Lovely to see Crazycat, Bdtt and Pete the Camera again and of course Ronnie…who was very busy on this stall. But of course, the best to last to meet ma friend Smallaxe, that dapper gent wi the two tone shoes….’wottaguy’ right enough Tinto 😉
If I missed anyone out I’m sorry…great day, great people, we’re on our way.
Heiding oot tae the West Endies for further entertainment…
Glasgow style.
Oh what a weekend! A cheers to all the groovy Wingers x.
What a great day that was.
After a couple of cans last night, thinking back on all the good pals I met and the new ones made, felt like this:
Al Green, ‘Love & Happiness’ –
link to youtube.com
Sorry to have missed U at the stall Smallaxe, choking efter the march so started at the Braemar Bar! Tinto ditto!
Sorry I seem to have missed so many Wingers I had not met before but we really have to get a team foatie taken in future. Huge thanks to Big Ronnie, BDTT and “The Girls” for their efforts on the stall and generally.
@Smallaxe: FGS, it was Fuchsia Flush and acetone is your friend for that, mon vieux. Adding those two-tones of yours to my spring collection.
@K1: amen to all that. It was really great to meet yourself and Macart at last and have a natter, however short. I’ve been thinking about some of your wise comments and may communicate my thoughts to the Prince of Palermo.
Fred: don’t know how we managed to miss each other but we’ll discuss those place-names later, I hope.
I got quite emotional on the march at times seeing all the wee kids in the column and on the pavements and wondering what kind of Scotland they would see. I think that’s what keeps the oldsters like me going.
Glad in a way the SH has exposed itself as a Yoonsheet. That photo on the front page really shows it up. The change of editor has really worked from our point of view.
I see Nana is back on MT. PNR told me that Ronnie paid the ransom for her release with some of the takings from the stall.
Sadly, after the Clutha shenanigans there wasn’t enough to pay Rev Stu to release heedtracker.
Lookout for a scandal about Wings cash in the Sun next week.
As the PNR says follow the money!
link to youtube.com
@ Tinto, the Polis should have shoved the fascists 100 yards back from the march or collared the lot!
Just asked Jabberwocky to play Gil Scott-Heron and he did, within minutes!
First time I’ve ever had a song played on ‘radio’ and he’s playing some great stuff I’ve never ever heard. In a way it’s like the sessons we have here, but without all the bother of copying links etc.
link to webcomradio.co.uk
Och, Fred, they were just ugly wee trogs and they contrasted beautifully with all the righteous on the march. I’ve seen a lot worse at the fitba’ when the SoW come to call.
Folk have to see the reality of these types and draw their own conclusions. The young shilpit ones down on Clyde Street looked a bit more dangerous IMO but they were well confined by the Poleis (for all Gaelic haters).
Like everyone else, I had a great time renewing auld acquaintances and making new ones yesterday – and as ever missed a few people I’d have liked to meet. Good to see you all.
There’s always Dumfries:
Ian posted on the main thread about transport. Yes East Ayrshire very briefly discussed the possibility of hiring a minibus. If there were takers further afield, that would make it more viable.
We can be contacted via the shop at 31C Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock KA1 1QW, on Facebook and Twitter or YesEastAyrshire [at] gmail [dot] com.
Then we can assess the idea.
K1.@ 7.34
It was so lovely to finally meet ye K1, us Cyberthugs must indeed co-ordinate,and I hope we meet again soon and often.
Cyberthuggery takes plannin!
…..
Thanks Alex for introducing me to K1, and for your efforts to help me find Smallaxe, although we didn’t manage it, (next time Smallaxe my friend)
I did get to meet your lovely better half and the pup,which was fantastic,as it’s always great to meet a fellow “dog lover”.
….. …….
As everyone was sayin a great day,met Gerry Parker before we even set off, Alex, Cactus, Quinie Fae Angus and Morag on the way…then at the Green too many to mention,and even then so many I missed.
Thanks to all the hard workers on the stalls, a long day for you guy’s, but you did the movement proud.
And a special thanks to a –Ronnie Sumbidy — for all his efforts… and,well,…
Cause he’s the wan wi money… apparently..
Naebdy even commented oan ma alliteration…’criss crossed across the city’ wis (f)artful 🙂
@K1
I jist didnae get it 🙂 🙂 You need to give me a clue.
Ah wis driving tae the Green, and as I realised I was behind the march, changed route, so as I attempted tae weave my way down I kept crossing paths wi the march itself ergo ‘our paths ‘criss crossed across the city’. 🙂
Saying ‘criss crossed across the city’ is a moothful…say it oot loud. But it’s good alliteration on the page. ;-), oh I”ve just commented on ma alliteration…that’ll do me 🙂
K1
Were ye discombobulated at all?
Dinnie flash ye were amongst freens the hale time..
But remember.. The pedal that work’s the metal is no as in control as the sweetie that’s in the seattie?
Cyberthug central out!!
Ah know ye meant fash…though the temptation is strong tae flash. 😉
The seed that is in the pumpkin is no as comfy as the pad that is in the cushion?
Read…and understood.
K1…oot…
R.E.M. “Shiny Happy People” (Live, 1991)
link to youtube.com
AUOB, Shiny Happy People (Live, 5/5/2018)
😉
@Smallaxe
Didn’t manage to make it to see you as planned on Saturday night. Sorry but I allowed myself to be waylaid by all those shiny happy people in the Clutha.
I was so shiny and happy myself that I just wanted it to keep going and it did for quite a bit 🙂
Thepnr,
Not a problem, Alex. I had a large glass of Remy Martin and then collapsed into bed, tired but delighted at the thousands of people who marched on Saturday. We’ll meet again soon.
The Moody Blues:”Lovely To See You Again My Friend”;
link to youtube.com
🙂
Hey sunny Scotland, it’s been a looooong weekend and still is, still in the West Endies, everything’s on topic right now, cause now is the time, burp!
Go Glasgow!
So basically speaking while they all chow down to bully beef and baked beans because they’re not worth any more, and get their next thrilling lecture about tactics from Noddy with Big Ears doing the slide show, no offence to either of them, it’s interesting to see the latest focus of attack is on the Wings stall which underlines its importance in providing a focus, material, a meeting place and a social reinvigoration for YES, congrats to those who started it probably funding it out their own pockets.
Got to admit being a bit of a cynic at times well I have supported Indy for 46 years after all you need a thick skin, I’m gobsmacked by this march, the dedication of those who attended and organised it and the reactions “out there”.
Well said kid, a gobsmacking march. We are the people!
Train:”Hey, Soul Sister”
link to youtube.com
Keane:”Somewhere Only We Know”
link to youtube.com
The Script:”Superheroes”
link to youtube.com
Well, I flaked out last night after I’d caught up with the WOS comments and never ate my kebab (from Corfu, the best kebab emporium in Dundee) so it’s on the menu for tonight. Thus I didn’t get to post a comment last night.
Saturday was phenomenal. As the front of the march came into the Green, I took a daunder up towards the Nelson monument for a better view. As I watched the sea of Saltires coming down the road in the park, I got the shiver down the back. “Phenomenal”, I said out loud to myself.
I reckon it took an hour and 20 minutes for the entire march to get into the Green. I was telling peeps to go to the road bhind the WOS stall and then look down the road – it was a sea of Saltires for ages.
Sorry to miss Ian B but did reacquaint with various Wingers, althought I couldn’t always put a name to the face.
Must mention Tartanpigsy – his crowdfunder in 2014 (10,000 flags for YES) was one of the major tools in the increase in the YES vote towards the vote in September.
Last year, at Glasgow Green, because he couldn’t get down himself, he got a pal to drop off a pile of YES car stickers at the WOS stall – much appreciated and dispersed.
A word about WOS stall finances.
EVERYONE who helped out on the stall was made aware of the takings and what was happening with them. If you want to know the figures, GET INVOLVED! Don’t sit sniping from the WINGS…
Hope to see y’all in Dumfries – and Inverness. (Don’t know about Bannockburn ‘at the merment”…
@Brian Doonthetoon
A word about WOS stall finances.
EVERYONE who helped out on the stall was made aware of the takings and what was happening with them. If you want to know the figures, GET INVOLVED! Don’t sit sniping from the WINGS…
Very well said Brian. Cheers from an adopted Dundonian 🙂
Hi Alex.
You typed,
“Cheers from an adopted Dundonian”
So’s Lorraine Kelly, so you’re in good company!
See you in Dumfries, Brian.
Four Tops:”It’s The Same Old Song”
link to youtube.com
@K1
Likewise. 🙂
Had a ball. Just wished I could’ve stayed on for the bash.
In my comment last night, I forgot to type…
A big hello to the lurkers I met on Saturday! Come in – the water’s fine!
8=)
“Fighting for strangers” Steeleye Span;
link to youtube.com
There’s a couple of posters in the H’ald I always hit the quote button because they change their original posting after a reply rather than admit they were wrong. Just added another to the list, and he even compounded his error by later saying he’d made the change to “clarify” it, whereas it was just plain wrong the first time, hence actually admitting he’d made the change. So he basically admitted he changed it without the usual decent thing of either putting at the end something like “edit: changed should to should not!” or whatever – plus maiking a quick posting in reply to whoever “sorry, changed above as it was wrong”. And kept going trying to pretend my reply was to the amended version! Another thing he said was I denied something which I didn’t even bother addressing, so another thing to do is make it clear I’m only commenting on the one bit I’m commenting on.
So there you go, you learn something new every day. Not important at the moment “now is not the time”, but techniques need honing for the big battle ahead! This poster by the way is a frequent one with lists of prepared stuff I haven’t bothered with normally, can’t be bothered doing the research, this was just his first sentence which implied something vital, whereas it was actually a bit interesting if the truth had been told to start with – not something some of the worst unionists do right enough. By the way cleaning caches (I use ccleaner) saves money I never paid in the first place, ‘cept for the odd couple of pro-Indy SH paper ones when it was pro-Indy quite a long time ago and over the hills and far away. Puck that for a game of soldiers.
Don’t worry if you didn’t read this, I’m just wittering on before finally hitting the pit after another all-nighter. Highlights for me though the old saying “And the Truth shall set you free” – an advantage unionists just don’t have over us independentistas. For many of then their only tool IS lies or at least misrepresentation. Which is why it’s vital we don’t do the same, even accidentally. And why at times Indy people get pissed off with me “correcting” them. Please, if I puck up do the same to me. Or tell me to puck opp.
Mmm, night night, sleep tight, don’t let SiU bite. They’re really not very good at this trolling stuff all the same, complete amateur dunderheids in fact. Good for a laugh!
The Glasgow Herald used to be an organ of some standing tae!
The 2 guys constantly looking to the ‘Fat cunt’ shouting guy, how sad to ‘look up’ to that angry wee guy? Is that your role model in life, is that a man…standing on a street shouting about Fenians, fat cunts, poofs and faggots?
No. It’s a sad ignorant bigot wi very low educational input…fear is what I see in their faces, acting like ‘hard men’, but really just wee scared boys inside.
@BDTT –
Sorry to have missed you – that’s mibbe first time we’ve not crossed paths at one of these things.
Dumfries!
🙂
Hi IanB.
I used to have a pair of dumfries but the @®$€ wore out and I had to get myself a new red jacket, to cover the gap.
@ Ian B – if you’re still here:
apparently there is now a post up on Yes East Ayrshire’s Facebook page about the possibility of a bus to Dumfries. If you don’t have a Facebook account (I don’t), there are other ways of contacting us that I listed above.
I can’t commit to the Bannockburn March as I might not be available awaiting on a cataract op , but theres nothing stopping other Wingers from doing it Gizbos here as is the stock .
For AUOB Saturday 5/5/2018;
link to youtube.com
“For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s coming yet for a’ that”
Rab the Ranter
WOTS is that the Wings stall is undergoing a rebranding for Dumfries after the success of Saturday:
link to youtube.com
Love the CND shirt at the start.
Tinto,
I’ll loan you that CND shirt if you like it so much, even although everybody knows that you’re too sexy for a shirt. Maybe you would look better in my old tie-dyed cheesecloth sarong that I used to wear while I blackleaded the grate.
Let me know what your preference is.
“Fashion”
link to youtube.com
You, can’t go wrong with a sarong, Smallaxe, imo, although the fashion conscious in my neck of the woods often cry it a lungi.
Combined with organic hemp espadrilles and a heliotrope Glengarry it gets the heads turning, particularly amongst The Laydees d’un certain age.
BTw, got that itching powder for Mundell’s breeks in Tam Shepherd’s last Sats. Will drone down/be in touch.
I prefer the green organic hemp, preferably Sativa as the Indica can make me a tad lazy.
How and soever, either strain will turn the heads of the Laydees, particularly those who had the good fortune to live through the 1960s and can’t remember much about it, or so they insist!
“Jamaican Rhapsody”
link to youtube.com
😉
Chust sublime, sublime.
I’m warming to your theme, Smallaxe old fruit.
link to youtube.com
By Jove, you’ve got it!
Herb… is a plant;
link to youtube.com
Unless you get caught by the polis? Then you may have to swear on the book that has this passage in it;
“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
WTF!
The air’s getting a bit thick in here. Haven’t had as much fun since K1 outed my quiff:
link to youtube.com
(signed) Vlad The Inhaler.
Oh, look, pixies!
An actors life for me;
link to youtube.com
Bloody cheek!
I was just going to say, “It’s like looking in a mirror!”
link to youtube.com
@Crazycat –
Very kind of you, thanks. Will probably make a day of it and take the family, so we’ll drive. See you there I hope!
😉
Hi Michael,
link to youtube.com
Who else?
Hi Ian,
Driving down the Highway?
link to youtube.com
See you there.
🙂
Hi Smallaxe. That Aly bain turns up everywhere so he does link to youtube.com
In my house there’s a picture on my wall;
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe there is a picture on my wall too. link to youtube.com
Smallaxe there is a Picture on my wall as well. link to youtube.com
Now you’ve put pictures in my head, Michael;
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe we’re they selfies link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe –
You’ll be more familiar than most of us with Dumfries – do you reckon it can handle a major influx on June 2nd? Raised this with TC earlier – may have to get there early-doors to get parking…
It’s no big deal anyway – more important that we get a significant turnout. It won’t make the national ‘news’, aye, that’s a given, but it’ll be big for the local papers and who knows what knock-on that could have in the tea-shops, pubs and care-home social rooms in the folowing weeks?
We’ll have to be on our very bestest behaviour!
😉 🙂 😉
Not selfies, Michael, pictures of her;
link to youtube.com
Ian,
Dumfries has got more than wee tea rooms, I hope this helps.
😉
link to en.parkopedia.co.uk
link to globeinndumfries.co.uk
link to tripadvisor.co.uk
link to tripadvisor.co.uk
link to youtube.com
Ian,
I put some links in for you but I think maybe I overdid it a bit, it’s in moderation and I’m waiting on hammers.
🙁
@Smallaxe –
It’s alright brother, ahm not that hungry anyway…had a cocaine pizza earlier.
😉
Smallaxe that is her from the valleys right. link to youtube.com
Wrong, Michael, it’s this one;
link to youtube.com
😉
Ian,
Have some more cocaine;
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe Lily and Rose well I will add in mary and raise you the jack of Hearts. link to youtube.com Goodnight my friend catch you later on today.
Goodnight Michael, it’s after midnight;
link to youtube.com
Diaraby: Playing For Change;
link to youtube.com
Tina Turner: “Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu” (Peace Mantra);
link to youtube.com
@ Sma
Do you no bide near Dumfries? I ken you’re in that region somewhere. I’m thinking aboot bringing the caravan up for the Dumfries gathering and taking a wee holiday with significant other and the wee man at the same time. I was wondering if you could recommend any really nice caravan sites nearby.
I’ve looked at a few toward the Solway coast area but, was wondering if there are any others nearer Dumfries that you know of (so I can be easily picked up after a few bevvies later that night 😉 ).
Sorry I missed you all at Glasgow gathering. I couldn’t pub it as I had to drive later in the day. I’m hoping third times the charm. 🙂
Hi William,
I live about 15mls outside Dumfries in Gretna, the Hoddom Castle site below has always been good and it is also licenced (I used to have a house on the estate) but if you want to be closer to Dumfries then have a look at the ones below.
You are welcome in my home at any time, remember.
link to tripadvisor.co.uk
link to google.co.uk
Can (GOX) Göksun:”Wrong Side Of The Road”
link to youtube.com
I think I may have posted this info before but, what the help, It came into my head tonight, for some reason.
It was released as single around 1974. I thought it was a rather decent treatment of the song. Of course, because I liked it, and bought it, it was never a hit.
link to youtube.com
Here’s his background…
link to en.wikipedia.org
Evening Smallaxe the bright side of the road link to youtube.com Van the man.
Hi Brian,
That’s a new one on me, first time I’ve heard it sung like that but I can see why you bought it.
Hi Michael,
Here’s some Meatloaf for the road;
link to youtube.com
Michael McAbe, Smalaxe, BDTT, etc. If you can make the time listen to this compilation from John Prine, similar to Van the man but less sax etc.
Some good anti-war-age- etc stuff.
He must be a definite yesser.
link to youtube.com
Thanks, Hackalumpof: I deducted an F because you left me short of an L up there^,
That’s going on to my playlist for later.
🙂
Meanwhile, On the Road Again;
link to youtube.com
@smallaxe
Humble apologies for the missing L – a wee tester; try and spot the missing “L”ink in the morning from her indoors, as Arfur said.
ps wish I could do emojii pix on this text box might make more sense.
I AM – link to youtube.com
time fur bed.
Goodnight, Hackalumpoff,
I’m not surprised at how you feel, in Days Like This;
link to youtube.com
😉
Arrested for Driving while Blind;
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe@ 11:52 pm
Still here, That was the the song that got me back to Van the man after having had VM banished by the loons in their hearing !
I was working on a new build power station, around 2000, in NI and heard it on local radio, in the most greasy of greasy spoons site canteens waiting for a Bacon Bap (Monster Bacon Roll to us but just a wee fry on a roll to them) LOL
I think he wrote it for the Good Friday Agreement when Clinton came to visit Belfast.
Saw him about 10 times since and the b*gg^r never cracks a light to the audience. Except, one time in Dublin when a Canadian called him out to sing “Listen to The Lion” and he did it !
THRAWN, JUST LIKE US.
I’ve heard that he can come across as thrawn, to put it mildly, I first heard him when I was camping below the Cobbler up at loch long, Arrochar.
I was about 14 or 15 yrs old and sitting in a small tent in the pissing rain at 1 am with two mates when ‘Them’ came on the transistor radio with this;
link to youtube.com
🙂
@William Wallace
There’s a nice one at Sandyhills on the coast, about 12 miles south and a bit west round the coast road which is quite quiet apart from rush hour when it’s a wee bit busier. Sandy beach, small camp shop, bigger one at Colvend or New Abbey. Don’t know what facilities it has. Mmm
link to pitchup.com
A Morrisons in Dumfries.
“Good Morning Star Shine” HAIR;
link to youtube.com
Guys, very sad outcome to the missing musician from “Frightened Rabbit!”
“Woke Up Hurting”
link to youtube.com
Namaste, Scott
Very sad news this morning. RIP Scott
A double-barrelled comment from me tonight, to keep yooz goin’.
Saw this retweet on the WOS Twitter page,
and, funnily enough, it reminded me of this…
link to youtube.com
Other barrel…
Another single from 1974 that I liked, bought and caused it to fail.
link to youtube.com
He did have a hell of a voice though. This is, probably, the single that he is most known for:-
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe/TC et al –
The mother-in-law (this isn’t a joke) is very highly strung at the best of times but she’s moving home soon and has been preparing for months so she’s ultra-stressed. My missus got her some hemp oil from the magic Police/phone box on Sauchiehall St, told her it was ‘natural’ stuff and made her take it. Her blood pressure dropped overnight (seriously), the flitting is imminent, but she’s totally chilled and just spends the entire time saying ‘what-ever’. Soo-perb!
🙂
On the general subject of which, I don’t think we’ve had this one before. BBC Scotland guy, isn’t he?
‘BBC News Reporter Inhales Burning Drugs And Can’t Finish Report’ –
link to youtube.com
Regarding your esteemed MiL, Ian, very good news on all fronts: I didn’t know that wee booth offered such delights.
That clip reminded me of one of my barbecues. Think the trouble started when I attempted to grill halibut wrapped up in “banana leaves”.
Venison banger, anyone?
They’re awfie dear, btw.
😛
Geddit?
@TC –
🙂
The MT has been mercifully free of Own-Goals this evening, eh?
Another reason to be cheerful…
Have a braw weekend there mister, an aw ye other dear auld WOS faces…
🙂 😉 🙂
Good morning Ian and all. And the very same to you. Derby day today at the fitba’ so brushing my Doc Martens and de-oosing my Crombie coat with vermilion linings.
Just heading to the M/T to monitor any O.G./bacon roll activity.
Is Slacker Cairns back? Is there honey still for tea? Was it for this the clay grew tall?
Lovely morning Where I Am. “The shy bud, bedewed yet pert/ shrinks from the frigid early air” (peotry).
Where the bee sucks, there suck I, ya bass.
“Here Comes The Sun”***
link to youtube.com)
🙂
It’s the big shiny thing up in the sky! Remember?
Tinto,
Trust you to be the first cuckoo this year, pull in your plumage in case your feathers get ruffled at the fitba’.
The Cuckoo;
link to youtube.com
Ra Tara Tara
link to youtube.com
Ya gotta love those lyrics.
🙂
Morning, Smallaxe. My spirit bends to yours, etc.
Jeezo, that Stevie Nicks has let herself go, eh? Gwoosome my dear, simply gwoosome.
No Cairnstoon yet and my anti-virus software is blocking my link to the livestream of the Indy march in The Hague. The Union never sleeps indeed.
Just off to give Mrs TC her breakfast in bed, although I believe plates are more usually employed.
Laters, haters.
Tin toe,
Pleased to see that you’ve taken my advice re. plates, It’s a pity that we didn’t meet years ago or I would have passed on the secret knowledge of having breakfast in bed.
I got married on a Saturday, the following morning I made a beautifully cooked and presented breakfast and carried it up to the new Mrs SA, including a fragrant array of freshly cut flowers, of course.
Mrs SA was delighted by this loving gesture and exclaimed, “Oh darling (that’s me) thank you, I’ve never seen such a beautifully cooked and presented breakfast with fragrant freshly cut flowers before”
I said, “Well now that you’ve seen how it’s done I’ll be expecting you to treat me to the same joyful experience every morning from now on”
Did I mention that I’ve been married twice?
😉
UB40 & Chrissie Hynde:”Breakfast in Bed”
link to youtube.com
Don’t know how you could ever be loved again after all that, Smallaxe my old mucker:
link to youtube.com
Apologies for lame, contrived cue but it’s all I’ve got at the mo (or ever).
Besides, love the guitar intro especially.
But!
“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”?
link to youtube.com
Always, my dear.
😛
She sounds like she smoked 20 Camels and drank a half bot. of Jack Daniels a day but this has a certain 80s charm:
link to youtube.com
I wish you all a happy Saturday evening.
A Hundred Miles-I’m with Her link to youtube.com
RE: “Here Comes The Sun”.
Gonna remind yooz of this:-
link to youtube.com
It was an unusual evening last night. I did a comment at
link to wingsoverscotland.com
which appears to have escaped the cognescenti. Maybe it was $h!† and I didn’t recognise it as such. Onnyhoo, unusually for a Friday evening, there were only 4 comments before morning awoke. Wir yi a’ pi$$€d?
Ce la vie…
From Eurovision tonight, I think the UK has burned its boats.
I thought the UK entry from Surie was the most classic Eorovision song, the performance marred by the intervention, but it was a fine song, that, unusaully, I found myself singing along with.
It looks like Europe has decided that the UK is not ‘one of us’.
Just ignore the typos…
Stevie Nicks at her best live with Buddy Holly’s most enduring present to the world
link to youtube.com
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbndfXPU6AU&index=0&list=RDUbndfXPU6AU
The world looks away while 55 unarmed Palestinians are shot dead and many, many more injured.
link to youtube.com
And Iraq, Libya and Syria bombed back to the Stone Age by the lunatic, rapacious West and its queer-bed-fellow allies.
And not one factual, coherent and truthful documentary ever on British television to tell it as it is.
Another reason to deplore the general standard of “journalists” in the UK.
Ye man well said Tinto
Pink Floyd:”A Song for Palestine
link to youtube.com
link to palestinecampaign.org
Morning Smallaxe 😀
Good morning, gentlemen.
link to youtube.com
Wotaballsup!
That should be: good afternoon, gentlemen.
And I prefer this version anyhoo:
link to youtube.com
Braw Tinto!
Good afternoon, gentlepeople. I’m having an enforced break for a while, I’ll pop in now and again.
Renèe Fleming:”Mad World”
link to youtube.com
I prefer that one.
😉
Take it easy Smallaxe!
Easy is being taken, Fred.
Eagles:”Take It Easy”
link to youtube.com
🙂
Amazing, Smallaxe. Thought she just sang classical.
I’m playing this ‘cos I’m going to Crete for a few days soon.
link to youtube.com
Don’t ask.
PS : yer braw yersel, Fred 😛 .
Crete clue too cryptic Tinto!
No, I AM off to Crete for a quickie (steady!) but Spanish ain’t much use there, unless I meet a Spanish waiter.
BTW, has Baroness Smith not spoken yet in the HoL? She seems to have racked up about £600K in expenses according to Wiki (I ken, I ken).
Made the mistake of watching the SP debate and first up was Neil “Pea Soup” Findlay who could barely read his own question. Tory plan seems to be to have as many silly interventions as poss.
It’s a bit like parliamentary Whackamole.
Penguin Café Orchestra-Bean Fields {the birds} link to youtube.com
On Mr Leask, this one seems to reflect his opinion of himself.
link to youtube.com
For your holiday
link to youtube.com
Thanks, Michael. No.1 was the hoopoe, one of my favourite burds (apart from Paula R, obvs).
hackalumpoff: shouldn’t you be cooking a 5-courser for SWMBO?
Right about L___k, btw. What a silly sausage!
Serious question – has the phrase ‘Cobblers to the King (or Queen)’ ever been used for real, as-in by shoemakers ‘by Royal Appointment’ etc?
No, Ian , but the British Beef Industry has previously endorsed the motto “Bullocks to the Queen”, and why not, he BarryNormaned?
Thanks, cearc: I was amazed 😉
Look, I’m only going to perfect my tan-and-tartan mankini concept for the Dumfries march. Trying to give that style icon, Smallaxe, a run for his money. The lallies looking toned already, tbh.
Then I’m going to park my saltire on Fluffy’s lawn.
Ooh, matron…
“Cobblers to the Queen,” Ian, of all the ancient Scottish Trades Incorporations only the Hammermen & the Cordiners (cobblers) have the crown on their arms, which doesn’t answer your question!
@ Tinto, Findlay, lord Fauldhoose in Waiting!
@Fred: I have responded on the M/T, mon vieux.
Neil is a pair wee sowill.
He’s no wice, eh?
Failed brickie!
In fact, a touch of the Chick Murray tae!
@ Sma 10 May, 2018 at 1:24 pm
You are welcome in my home at any time, remember.
Totally appreciated and much love and respect but, I don’t want to put on you the now. I’d like to take the opportunity to get you a wee single malt in Dumfries though ;).
@YIR2 Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out. Hope ah the mad squad in aff topic are keeping well and hope to see yiz ah in Dumfries shortly.
Bored?
Listless?
Regular but constipated?
Need cobwebs removed? Press below for quick relief:
link to youtube.com
Fred: “It’s a small world but I wouldn’t like to paint it.”
(Chic. Murray)
Transport to Dumfries (and back if you’re good)
Yes East Ayrshire are contemplating hiring a coach. We would need 42 people to commit (20-seater costs nearly as much, so would be considerably more per head).
I assume we would start in Kilmarnock, but I suppose that could be slightly flexible. At present I’m just asking arround, but if anyone would be interested, please post here so I can report back and we’ll decide if we’re going to do it.
Ta.
I need intellectual help (behave, you lot!).
A while ago a sage Winger amongst us (Brian DTT?) posted a link to a series of recordings of allied POWs in Germany post-WW1 by German linguists.
I remember being particularly interested to hear voices from Hamilton in 1918. It will come as little surprise to the soffisticates on here that they sound amazingly like our denizens today, such is the power of Scots dialects and accents.
Problem is, my old PC died without warning with its Favourites, so does anyone have the link?
*Stares hard at BDTT*
Large malt of choice @Dumfries for the lucky winner.
Dinnae think it was me. I have no recollection of Hamilton or POWs.
I’ll still settle for a bottle of Malt as a salve to my ignorance…
Thanks, BDTT.
A bottle, you say?
Howsaboot a 1/4 gill for your general fandabbydoziness?
So who’s the guilty party then?
Ahm here, batter in dare main thread, ahm having a party.
It’s FUN!
@ Tinto U mean there were Cameronians who surrendered!
Speaking of cobblers, did U catch Cameron Macneish on the Cobbler tonight on 2. Scary Biscuits!
@William Wallace
Yes, it’s a nice area. Brighouse Bay, same company, is a bigger one probably more leisure facilities, but a fair way west of that one. Both are sometimes customers of mine but no other interest.
Tinto,
link to sounds.bl.uk
Make that a very large one.
😉
Settling down to Rouge One.
Night night.
Have fun.
@Cactus
17 Black, good luck and take care. Most of all enjoy yourself 🙂
Cheers buddy, good to be here.
I may quote lines from the film, randomly…
Welcome Summer.
Bor Gullet.
@Fred: I missed that ‘cos I don’t watch VichyVision no more. MacNeish must be one of the few Yessers to get a gig on the BBC. The scary bit at the top discombobulates one somewhat (code for “Hoorin’ ___k!”).
Yes, the Cameronians were a thrawn bunch and brave but I believe the Seaforths simply wiped out a bunch of MPs who were sent into their section of the line. Something I was reading recently and must chase up.
That’s the one, Smallaxe. Really appreciate that: large Remy M. will be awaiting in Dumfries, and a pickled gerkin/packet of Quavers si tu l’en veut. Link safely pouched in my faves again.
Fine day down here. Just seen a pair of bullfinches in a bush in my garden: really beautiful.
“Gherkin”, obvs. Sometimes cried cornichon in bourgeois parts of Lanarkshire (if you can find them).
I had a rant the other day, about the missed opportunities Perthshire SNP officials keep missing, in relation to leaving no stone unturned for getting a positive message out to the public about Scotland, about the real threats of Brexit, and the health reasons behind the Baby Box.
I’m aware some did not like the tone – for which I apologise.
I’m aware others did not like or did not agree with the contents. Specifically with regards utilising the front windows of the SNP Offices – it was posted that there are strict rules and regulations preventing them from being used in such a manner, as a Constituency Office (quite rightly) has to serve all the constituents.
Being a thrawn wee bugger at times (my most endearing feature if I’m honest), I wanted to know if this was an example of ‘truthiness’, and specifically, exactly, definitively what are the rules and regs on this – and how can we legitimately get round them.
So I made 2 phone calls – it didn’t take long – I phoned IPSA – The Independent Political Standards Authority, and from them I phoned The Commission for MP’s Standards. (This might not be the exact name, but I’m committed to finishing this post so can’t go back to check, but you get the gist).
Both agencies confirmed, with regards the livery/posters on Constituency Office Windows
1/ As the office is funded through public money, it cannot be used as a campaign office – during elections, (when they are used as campaign officers) no office rent expenses are claimed, which keeps it legal.
2/ There should be no party logos, an unwritten rule being – the office serves all constituents.
Thereafter – there are no strict guidelines, no written rules and no legislation, no nothing.
Perth SNP Office on Glasgow Road, remains a poor, shabby looking thing, which tells passing motorist nothing, which tells those waiting at the bus stop – nothing, which tells the people walking into or from town – nothing.
I want to see, in that window, a big, beautiful poster of that magnificent Queensferry Bridge crossing the Forth – on time and under budget, with a great big thank you to all the contractors and businesses in the Perthshire area listed, along with the number of jobs, the number of apprenticeships completed.
That’s not party political – that’s self confident, eye catching and positive. And it should have been done quite a few yesterdays ago.
Yes we can, Now we must.
@ Daisy Walker – agree about the iconic bridge. It would make a brilliant poster as the image speaks for itself. Ditto the baby box.
I wasn’t aware that there should be no party logo. As I recall it, the offices I see have nothing but party logos. Swift replacement with bridge posters might be required!
For any Marvin Gaye fans…
Just found this on YT, a version of What’s Going On, never heard it before. Soo-perb!
link to youtube.com
Great stuff, Ian. Makes me think of this, another favourite:
link to youtube.com
BTW, the MPs the Seaforths were supposed to have shot were military policemen, not members of parliament.
Although some of you might be disappointed, of course……
Daisy Walker @ 10.53
Yes I agree Daisy, the office Windows should be classy,smart
and above all Scottish.
Nothing wrong in takin a wee bit o’ pride in there appearance,and promoting Scotland and the same time.
I’m all for anything that chip’s away at the cringe!
The Bridge is a perfect example,infact all three of them are!
This has a four-minute intro:
link to youtube.com
Nice way to relax after a hectic day.
Or a calm day.
@Daisy Walker – I agree too. No office should look scruffy, let alone an MPs. And why not advertise the achievements of the occupant – free prescriptions, baby boxes, Borders Railway, Qferry crossing etc etc etc?
Aye am with the force and the force is with me 🙂
And aye am one.
Evening Wingers.
Pit this on the MT but, eh’ll pit it here an ah. Ony help appreciated.
William Wallace says:
18 May, 2018 at 2:25 am
Eh’ve been writing some wee topical ditties recently that eh wiz gonna pit on twitter. Eh need a backdrop image that would mak space fir a wee bit o poetry (Eh ken you hate it Stu ya big jessie) but, eh am shite at art.
If anybody could mak a nice indy focused backdrop fir iz, wi a wee bit o space for the written word on it – eh would really appreciate it (thistles lions and saltire style). Eh’ve a few ideas aboot how eh want it to look and eh dinnae mind paying fir yir time.
If onybody could dae that fir iz, eh would be forever in yir debt. Giz a shout on aff topic if you have the skills iy.
Love and respect tae ah the wingers fir whaz like yiz? Eh nane iy. ? ?
A song for Mr. Leask:
link to youtube.com
That’s me booked for Dumfries. Managed to get a hotel room for £30 close to the centre of Dumfries. Sorted. See you all there. 🙂
Meant to say, if anyone is south of Dumfries and needs a lift up on the Saturday morning and/or a lift back on the Sunday morning/afternoon, please let me know.
@WW –
Hope to see you in Dumfries brither!
Here’s something special late at night. Blows my mind watching this, every time.
Preston Reed, ‘The Last Viking’ –
link to youtube.com
Ian:just taking time out from knitting another unisex matinee jacket for Harry and Meghan’s first nappy-filler to ask…
Is that clip the origin of the term “spank your plank”?
An extraordinary performance.
And when can we expect the piccaninnies?
“I Went To Your Wedding”
link to youtube.com
link to dailyspectacle.co.uk
Hoots all.
Jabberwocky’s show should be starting about now…
link to radio.zannie.co.uk
What a right sentimental bunch ye aw are, the minute theres a wedding.
Tae the tune oh ‘Dunbartons drums, they are sae bonny, and they remind me oh ma Johnny’, etc
Dunbartons Earls they are sae ginnger
I think we should, show them the fingger
And nae matter how they try tae skewit
I think his dad’s a bloody Hewitt
PS… turns out it really hard to spell ginnger, who knew.
@Tinto Chiel
Meant to say yesterday, commiserations to Motherwell. Now you know how it feels after your lot beat United 4-3 LOL
“All Along The Watchtower” Playing For Change-Song Around The World;
link to youtube.com
(o)”(o) Watching!
@Thepnr: sitting in my tartan mankini in a bar in Sissi (no unseemly jokes, please) on Crete, musing upon our defeat by a better team. Never in it.
I am finding this ouzo stuff quite medicinal in the circs but am keeping up the mineral water and bending exercises for Dumfries, obvs.
Hope to see some of you soffisticates there. I’ll be day-tripping it with my handler but am finding a big enough flag pole hard to find. Didn’t think my room-the-shouthers look really worked at GG.
Fashion can be so fickle…..
With all the mentions of Murphy online today, I think it is appropriate to link, again, to this classic piece of Cinematography.
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
Mind give your wee Greek neighbour a wave 🙂
link to youtube.com
@Brian Doonthetoon
Just watched all that again, brilliant “the repeller of eggs”.
Thanks, Alex.
Gave me semmit tae dae.
@Brian Doonthetoon
Things are looking up for Dundee!
‘Dynamic’ Dundee picked as must-see destination
Dundee has been named one of the 10 best European destinations to visit this year by publisher Lonely Planet.
link to archive.li
Lonely Planet’s Best in Europe 2018:
1 Emilia-Romagna, Italy
2 Cantabria, Spain
3 Friesland, the Netherlands
4 Kosovo
5 Provence, France
6 Dundee, Scotland 🙂
7 Small Cyclades, Greece
8 Vilnius, Lithuania
9 Vipava Valley, Slovenia
10 Tirana, Albania
I doubt that the UK would continue paying Scottish pensioners after Independence. I think from day 1 of Independence the Scottish government would take responsibility for that. Of course a deal would have to be worked out with the rUK based on what NI everyone in Scotland has already paid and not just current pensioners all future ones too for a certain time.
Who knows what that agreement might be, a reduction in our share of the debt or guaranteed payments direct to the SG every year for whatever period of time it took.
Pension liabilities are huge and that’s a debt owed by Westminster to all of Scotland’s workers that have paid in. The SG will decide what the appropriate pension is in this country, no one else. I’d expect that eventually to be a more generous payment than we currently have and hopefully all fully paid for in the brand Scottish currency.
Oops! wrong thread LOL
Nina Simone:”I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free”
link to youtube.com
Rachael Price: “What I’m Doing Here”
link to youtube.com
LoLa & Hauser:”Moonlight Sonata”
link to youtube.com
Excellent main thread… ahm nae touching it.
How are you?
Lovin’ your talk Liz g on it mwah x.
Long live rock n roll… Dio.
Ahm on a guest wifi.
Mornin’s begun.
Scotland.
No touching what Cactus? 😉 The Boaby? Only yir ain iy. 🙂
@ Sma
I’ll see your LoLa & Hauser and raise you a Valentina Lisitsa 🙂 😉
The Moonlight “Movement” 😉
link to youtube.com
Aye aye touched it William and it was good 🙂
Cannae help masel.
Good thread.
Like.
You going to Dumfries Cactus?
Aye aye ahm William 🙂
zero seven seven six five six seven zero two
link to youtube.com
Nice number 99 hunner balloons bro.
Aye am eating a big cake.
See yer Man vs Food…
Let’s do ah Man vs Cake!
Ah could be a winner.
Wingers 🙂
The cake hath gone.
T-shirt time.
+taps aff.
Text iz so eh can contact ya when eh get there. 😉
Will do bro.
Ahm trying tae tune intae the shoot-out for Bully’s prize.
Tis awe scrambled, damn.
Moo!
@ Ian
Likewise brother. 😉
Incidentally, my Challenge is still challenging.
But me ITV2+1 is good.
Family Time.
Yes!
Joni Mitchell-Coyote link to youtube.com
@W.W.,Cactus et Al (whoever he is) –
We shall find each other on the day, nae doots.
😉
Aye we’ll all be there… big Al too bro, whomever she/he is 🙂
Heidin oot for the last horderves.
En vacance.
En Ecosse.
Voila.
A wee favour fellow Wingers – please help this petition get the numbers up. Cheers
link to change.org
@ Tinto, just back from Ben Oovi, missed the waddin completely, hope Crete is as warm! Just catchin up, a bit dis-oriented!
Bests to Smallaxe
To anybody who is listening to my show on Argyll Independent Radio(online)tonight I’ll be having a few words with Ken MacDonald of I-Scot magazine just after 7pm before he talks to the Forward Shop in Dunoon
What Davidson (no relation, at least I hope no) Murdo, Carlaw, och aw them fear the most, That when all this is history, there names will be, being kindly. Shite
This popped into my heid this afternoon and I have no idea why.
Have a braw pre-Dumfries weekend abody!
😉
Disco Tex And The Sexolettes, ‘Get Dancin!’ –
link to youtube.com
And this is the appropriate soundtrack for Smallaxe appearing at Glasgow Green, Dumfries, wherever…
Henry Mancini, ‘Pink Panther Theme’ –
link to youtube.com
Checkin’ in Wingers…
Whit’s gaun on..
Oor William.
Onesies.
Ah was restauranting earlier on yesterday somewhere in Scotland. Ordered yer homemade Lasagne… turns out it they didnae come wae sides as standard east coast like.
Had to order side fries n coleslaw.
What the FUCK is that awe about like?!
Love Scotland.
Cake.
Ra Blues Brothers.
ITV4+0.
Da da, da ra da ra, dar ah.
The time is…
C’est bon soir.
Maintenant.
@Ian B: great choice. Was told at school I walked just like the PP.
Fred: hot hot hot here but a big thunderstorm early this morning. Nice breezes on the north coast. Going up into the hills today to see the eagles and vultures. Reading Beevor’s book on the Cretan campaign. Normally like his stuff but his English officer class background come through too much with characters like Binky this or Bongo that and their eccentric Boys’ Own Paper jolly japes. Will persevere, though. Only Scots so far are a nanny to an officer and a drunk Black Watch driver *grinds teeth*.
I’m going to scweam and scweam and scweam unless our new currency is called the Tinto, soanumurr.
As Thepnr said, let’s get free first, then all thing are possible.