Poor Smallaxe: I doubt we’ll see him again if he’s had the full Garden Centre Experience. He was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Or his shoes, ftm.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Oh, you’re back! Please disregard my last elegant and elegiac remarks.
“That’s song is all about an Italian importuning a young woman, Smallaxe. Quite shocking but I’m broadminded.”
I thought it was a Frenchman ordering a special fish with chips!
‘Broadminded’, it’s not just your mind, Tinto, bus and back-end of, springs to mind.
“Won’t waste my time feeling sorry for him
I’ve seen the other side to being thin
Roll us both down a mountain and I’m sure the fat man would win” link to youtube.com
The choice of song in this comment is purely coincidental, all characters are fictitious, except for those that aren’t.
😉
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
But, Smallaxe, you said I filled out those taupe crushed velvet culottes beautifully…..
Now don’t go saying that I played that song to make you melancholy because you started with a head like a melon and a face like a collie.
🙂
only jesting, honest guv!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Forgiven and forgotten already, Smallaxe *stares nervously at profile in mirror*.
Life is but a melancholy flower, indeed. Or a melon-cauliflower, I forget which.
Well, incredible events and most of the rest of the UK just carries on up the swannee. Nurse! But yeah, IanB joining the SNP is a real stunner, hope he restarts SSP after a YES – not that I’m a supporter but I like the diversity, same as Tommy getting elected way back when, no matter what baggage he carried.
So it makes it a bit difficult because I like being non-aligned, feel I can actually help Indy and the SNP better being outside, posting in alien media, and even in real life. As for the diversity though, that is a strength not a weakness of the Indy movement, and it seems to me we should fall out at times, as long as we get back together behind YES.
Nice to see claymores being extracted fae the thatch for sharpening all over the shop & congrats to Ian Brotherhood & Co for coming aboard!
I would say that Mundell is mair o a wee toly than a wee shite! What does the panel think.
A bit of Skerryvore to celebrate the days events wid be nice!
Thepnr
6 years ago
@yesindyref2
Yes, Ian B’s decision to join the SNP had me blinking a bit as well. I salute that decision because it showsthat “Independence First” is all that matters.
I admire and respect ian B very much and it’s only through this site that I know of him. Like me he absolutely has the best interests of the Scottish people in mind and especially the poorest of us.
Good on you Ian, you’ve got me seriously thinking about doing the same. It’s no more than supporting Scotland and I’m sure the SNP could find room for a few more left wingers with Scotland and her peoples interests at heart.
William Wallace
6 years ago
@ Nana 08:07 12/06
Again, thank you. I have written to the SP for further information.
@Thepnr: hee hee. Closest I got was a Viking hogsback gravestone at St Blane’s. Just as well ‘cos I hear yon Ronnie Wood has wandering hands.
Welcome Ian B. I only joined on September 21 2014 but have voted that way since 1974 and I consider myself well to the Left *adjusts John Maclean silk lounging pyjamas*. “A braid kirk is appin tae aa” as my pipe-smoking granny (father’s side) used to say before downing her pint of Guinness for breakfast.
Blackford’s stance has added to the membership already and is a big morale booster for the Bannockburn march. Hope there’s lots of Hands off our Parliament banners to ram home the message.
Cheers chums,
Sorry didn’t reply sooner, it’s been mental, eh?
Next up, FMQs for some Ruth&Richard-skelping, then, hopefully, Mundell The Boneless stuttering out his resignation at 1-ish in the HOC.
😉
Marie Clark
6 years ago
Well it’s been an interesting few days, eh! Not before time the gloves came off. Boy did that ruffle a few feathers. I was expecting FMQ to be a bit lively, but what did we get? Thon Labour nonentity on about hummingbird beaks. Whit!
We are right into a constitutional crisis and that’s what we get, hummingbirds beaks. Nicola must resign now, or should it be Humza.Whit about the colonel and wee willie winkie, they seem tae be awfie quiet. Wonder why. SNP membership on the rise, former no voters saying it’s outrageous what is happening and will now vote yes. It’s a’ kickin off.
Here’s a wee song that I would like to apply to Munnell, Secretary of State for naewhere.
Thanks Smallaxe, one night in the old Clutha the star turn was a team of Morris Dancers. With blacked up faces & swords they reminded one of a night in the Caravelle.
Please use my words as you see fit, Winifred, I would be honoured.
Thank you.
🙂
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Morning, Smallaxe.
Your MD clip was a teaker, as we used to say in the punishment wing of my old school (the whole school, actually). Imagine a band of lute-playing morris dancers. They’d probs go down a bomb in post-Brexit England.
Could make Mickie Most a fortune.
Clapper57
6 years ago
Just signed ‘David Mundell must resign ‘ petition on change.org ……. initiated by Ian Brotherhood. ( Partner signed it too ).
Brian Doonthetoon
6 years ago
From Twitter (Paula Rose)…
“Graeme Turner
@gturner1969
16 minutes ago
#GlasgowArtSchool Q. Does this photograph from last night suggest O2 was in fire before the Art School. The Academy roof is fully ablaze whilst the west and east ends of the Art School don’t look as if they are in fire! O2 Was apparently up for sale!”
Oh, yes and possibly the most powerful header ever from a man/salmon seemingly just hanging in the air, waiting for the ball to come to him.
For all that, the effortless passing, overlapping and sheer power of the final shot for the fourth goal just summed up Brazil for me.
*wipes away a silent tear*
Macart
6 years ago
@Tinto Chiel
Heh! 🙂
Y’know, my old dad gave me a special birthday gift a couple of years back. It was an old worn envelope and within it was his most cherished possession. It was a ticket to a football match.
1967 England v Scotland
Made a point of acquiring a DVD of the match to go with the ticket. Still can’t find paw in the crowd. 😀
Proper football.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@Macart: just can’t go on, my friend, with all those memories…..
Evening, aye ye were right the 1st time Tinto Chiel, let’s go fly a Britite, I do rather like Poppinson too smallaxe 🙂
Here’s a question for a Scottish poll, to get em thinking:
Q. “Should Scotland vote to return to being an independent country, which of the following parties would you vote for to form the first new government…”
– Scottish National Party
– Scottish Green Party
– Scottish Liberal Democrats
– Scottish Labour (abstentioning) Party
– Undecided / don’t know
– Other
– Won’t vote
– Scottish Conservative Party
Paint a picture.
(There was a fair bit of lovin’ last night on here, it mustve been all the FUN and excitement of the football or summin)
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Don’t know where you get them from, Smallaxe old bean.
Mad, moi? I think Harvey would have something to say about that.
Well, he would but I don’t speak rabbit.
Though I can rabbit on, obvs.
Oh, look! A carrot…
Fairy Nuff, Cactus: Stetson or Fedora on Sats? Don’t want to clash. Can’t pluck up the courage to wear my Homburg.
Just catching up with events and see that Westminster appears to believe itself the bastion of liberal democracy and reflective cultural competence. Apart from when it comes to dealing with Scotland, obviously, where Westminster appears to favour authoritarian despotism. Such is the political morphology of British nationalism.
A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency link to ndpr.nd.edu
@ Stravaiger says:
12 June, 2018 at 9:39 am
@Daisy Walker
Will you be at AOUB at Bannockburn or Inverness? Any chance of meeting up? There’s something I’d like to chat about.
I will be at Bannockburn, I will loiter at the Wings stall… look for the big blond dog with one ear pointing forward… either that or get Ronnie to point me out.
I don’t do illegal by the way, just to be clear.
O/T Folks I saw a tweet on the Revs account a few days ago, which seemed to claim that oil exports amounted to 30% of all UK exports in 2015 – I’d like to verify same, but can’t find it anymore, can anyone shed light on this.
Best wishes to all.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Three, Cactus?
Will have to consult my tailors, Grabbit and Runne for my new chapeau marron 😉
Stravaiger
6 years ago
@ Daisy Walker,
Cool. Nothing illegal, just some stuff that of necessity can’t be talked about on an open forum.
cearc
6 years ago
TC,
So you’re going dressed as a chestnut? See, I told you the hat should be brown.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@ cearc: damn you, you’re good!
Can’t really argue with a woman *rubs plaster casts on arm and leg ruefully*
Daughter No.2 tells me there was a five-minute Scottish news so we can all gather round the one-bar electric fire with our Bovrils to watch the England game. Huzzah!
Never has obscure place-name research appeared so appealing. You know who I mean, Lickprivick…..
Archie (not Erchie)
6 years ago
Just to announce that the snow drifts have been cleared on the Auchenshoogle bypass and it seems that this man will appear on the fields, highways, and byeways of Stirling. I am so looking forward to this or
Archie (not Erchie)
6 years ago
Just to announce that the snow drifts have been cleared on the Auchenshoogle bypass and it seems that this man will appear on the fields, highways, and byeways of Stirling. I am so looking forward to renewing previous meetings. See you all there.
I was watching some of the auld Glasgow Trams black n white footage again… mesmerising… back then, EVERYBUDDY wore a hat.
Have you been to Glasgow’s World Famous Transport Museum…
It’s worth a walk and The Tall Ship is there on oor Clyde.
Scotland rising.
Cactus
6 years ago
Checklist for Bannockburn:
– Arrive in the morning, make a day of it
– Wear suitable footwear and bring water
– Admire the glorious turnout
– March
– Smile and wave at any unlearn’ed ones who may turn up
– Sing, chant, dance and have fun
– To destination
Cactus
6 years ago
This is OUR march FOR independence.
All Under One Banner.
cearc
6 years ago
Cactus,
The fashion or habit of going hatless is a very modern phenomenon, it only started about 50yrs. ago.
Strange really. I guess people have come to like getting sunstroke (largely undiagnosed) in summer and bloody cold in winter.
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Ian Brotherhood
Read your suggestion the other day on the MT about rebuilding the GSA in a “better” location that is more accessible.
I think that’s a very good idea and if they intend to demolish totally the existing structure then it becomes a great idea.
In other words it should not be demolished if it can be saved, they could take it down brick by brick and rebuild it in a more suitable spot where it might stand for another 200 years at least.
Somebody will have to pay out for the damage caused by this fire and that will be the underwriters of the insurance companies of whoever is found responsible.
Whatever I would definitely rebuild it, maybe 20 years ago a historic school in Dundee burnt down, Morgan Academy. The entire thing was rebuilt and from the outside was identical to the original. It can be done, where there’s a will…
Here’s the old Morgan on fire and why it happened.
The evening of the Morgan fire, Pete the camera was up The Law and saw the plume of smoke. He took a photo from Law Road (the road that winds its way up The Law) then headed over to Stobbie.
I uploaded his series of pics to my original “Doon The Toon” web site, which was captured by the Internet Archive.
Due to the way the Internet Archive worked in those days, sometimes a pic wasn’t captured. Other times, when you click the “Next” button, the pic doesn’t appear until you reload the page. If a pic just appears as its text title, eg “morgan01.JPG”, try reloading the page as well. I saw his first pic from Law Road after a reload/refresh page.
BTW: the reason the pics appear so small nowadays is because, in 2001, they were fine on an 800×600 monitor!
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Brian Doonthetoon
Man,they were brilliant pictures, so thanks for that and especially to Pete. I remember the fire well but seeing the gutted shell back then I was totally amazed that just a few years later a brand new Morgan looking exactly the same was in it’s place.
So now this year we have a school celebrating it’s 150th birthday when in fact it’s less than 15 years old which reminds me of this which is total class 🙂
What is happening to our plants. Last year I had so many apples the branches were almost breaking. Looks like the same is happening again though apple trees are usually one year on/one year low harvest. But it’s my rasps . The stems are usually about five feet tallest. I have never seen so many raspberries and the stems are up to over seven feet and bending over. Are the plants telling us about another Siberian episode coming up this winter?
Fred
6 years ago
Dave, rasp canes shot up without a check last year in the wet Summer, flowers fertilised well by bees in that good spell this Spring, hence the promised crop. Can U get European labour to pick them though, that is the question?
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Fred: haven’t heard of the Willox the Warlock you mentioned on a M/T, though I see there is a book available on him on A____n.
We once lived in a holiday house in Mellon Udrigle (opp. Anthrax Island) near Loch na Beiste but survived. Mind you, I didn’t go up there at midnight slathered in anchovy paste.
Think the kelpie was supposed to have disposed of a schoolmaster or summink, so it can’t have been all bad 😉
Bill Hume
6 years ago
I have been posting a quote of the day on my facebook page for some time now. Thought some of you would like to see this one.
Quote of the day, from Ian Hamilton in his book STONE of DESTINY
“I did not go to London all these years ago to fetch back a hunk of stone. I went to do something for my country. I wanted to see if it was still alive because at that time it seemed dead. Nobody cared. I was not then, nor am I now, greatly concerned with how Scotland is governed. Independence will come when the people want it.”
Might I ask that anyone who does not wish to see Scotland once more reduced to simply a region of the UK, whether or not you wish independence, to come along to Bannockburn on Saturday (23rd June 2018). It’s rather important.
I shall be there, so if you see a rather short, overweight OAP being towed about (usually to places I don’t want to go) by a big Bernese Mountain Dog………….it’s probably me.
Do say hello.
Fred
6 years ago
@ Tinto, Willox apparently took a charm to present to the duke of Gordon who was raising sojers to fight Napoleon. The duke thought Willox was joining-up so was not too happy. The charm guaranteed the wearer against musket-balls so his grace made Willox wear it while ordering a party of new recruits to load-up. The Warlock took to his heels while the sojers fired after him!
Anchovy-paste like orange brassieres would require a “Safe” word methinks!
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Fred, I thought salesmen had to believe in their wares, as in the power of positive thinking?
Did a reccy of the Bannockburn course yesterday and we have been shunted on to streets through housing for the most part. I really hope we get the bods out to sicken the Britnats.
I do hope that you will forgive my impertinence, Tinto, old bean, but I will play your choice of song again, this time it may make a certain Ms Lucia Daines swoon.
Wingers, I have three spare seats in my car going from Glasgow Gorbals to Bannockburn on Saturday, will be leaving around 11AM get parked and and flegged up. Reply on here if you need a lift.
Ah, Smallaxe, remember Miss Daines? Charming young lady, if a bit scatty. And the pert and feisty Paula Rose, the wonderful parties at her gaff: the potted “palms”, the chankie lock on the bog door, the lava lamp lost in the lady’s lavvy, the Ian Brotherhood memorial upturned plant pot with attendant little hostage, the unorthodox smoke-house…
Ou sont les neiges d’antan? Eh, Poindexters?
Hackalumpoff: glad you can make B’burn and take a break from your Herculean labours. Mrs TC says I’ve never even thought of a Wonderful Remark, let alone articulated one.
The Laydees, eh? Can’t live with, can’t live with them…..
*Starts feather-dusting early to avoid unseemly domestic strife*
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
@ Smallaxe, thanks for that, new to me.
If you ffwd to 13:27 it seems the Norn Irish had the same educational experience as most Scots, Anglification, or whatever our Cameron Brodie might call it.
Here’s another great Irishman, approriate for the times, oi tink. link to youtube.com
You’re welcome, I listened to that one before I played it and agree with you about the education similarities.
Christy Moore, is, as you say another of the greats. This track may sound a bit morbid but I like to listen to it through headphones.
Christy Moore:”Danny Boy” [Spoken Poem] link to youtube.com
Goodnight, I’m heading to Stirling tomorrow, see you there.
🙂
That The Band Played Waltzing Matilda gets you every time, doesn’t it?
Excellent choices last night gentlemen.
Cactus: strike the Homburg. In view of the meteorological prognostications, I’ll be sporting my classic straw fedora (NOT Panama) with my wee string vest and navy PE shorts (circa 1968).
cearc
6 years ago
I’m so sorry I can’t join youse tomorrow. I’m sure it will be a great day and am feeling a bit sad about missing it.
I’m completely birdy-bound at the moment and it would be totally unreasonable to ask my neighbour to shut them up when the runner ducks don’t come home until about 10,30 and the a couple of muscovies even later.
Definitely will do Inverness as I can do it as a day trip.
dramfineday
6 years ago
Tomorrows March, Top Tip: For those of you travelling from the Edinburgh area remember that the roads around the Airport will be congested due to the Highland Show. Noticed yesterday that the City bypass (west bound) was backed up as far as the M8 turn off, Also M8 backed up to Junction 1 Livingston (Edinburgh Bound)from the turn off to the Airport. Leave yourself more time or seek an alternative routes.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@cearc: can’t believe you’re ducking this one out 😛
What eggsactly is the problem? It’s not good to be cooped up all day you know.
Will give my saltire an extra twirl for you (new poles too).
cearc
6 years ago
Yep, I’ve chickened out. Or rather I’m all chickened out at the moment. With the added excitement of random, daytime visits from a vixen.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
“With the added excitement of random, daytime visits from a vixen.”
Me too, in a way!
😛
Must get the dusting, polishing, dysoning und so weiter done by 1 0’clock.
cearc
6 years ago
Ah, but I have the advantage of being able to set a hunter on to mine (when he gets back from his fishing jaunt).
You mentioned on the MT about feeling “jaded”. I’m not surprised, it’s not like we’re pounding the streets but evn just keeping up with and reading all that news is a hard slog.
Sometimes I’m like my brain is frying with information overload. I guess that is nothing though to those whose kids are hungry tonight and whose parents believe there is no future for them.
My only goal is no hungry children, no homeless and no individual believing in no future. I can manage a march tomorrow in support of that. We do the best we can and keep doing it then we will eventually get where we want to go.
this song is for everyone going to Bannockburn today. And for all those who are not going but wish they could. but it is mostly for Me. link to youtube.com Bannockburn here I come.
Cactus
6 years ago
One has arrived in Stirling, lookin’ our for ye straw fedora TC, we’ll fly em high cearc, in the sunny beer garden oot back xx
Cactus
6 years ago
We’ve just seen a circular rainbow through the sun, photies taken, look up with sunglasses and wear sunscreen xx
cearc
6 years ago
Aye, rub it in, Cactus, wontcha – It’s grey and drizzling here (probably in sympathy with me for not being there)!
Have a great day everyone. Hugs all around.
K1
6 years ago
On the livestream…police estimating 10,000, probably a lot more given they usually underestimate by the thousands….hoping to see familiar faces on the stream, huv a braw day you lot 🙂
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@K1: do you have a sick note?
Cactus: too windy for my fed. when I got out the Bentley Con. so went for the classic George Clooney Grecian 2000 look with added smoulder.
Spotted you in your estimable hat on the field after the march. Enjoy your evening 😉
K1
6 years ago
Ma only excuse is that I didn’t get organised in time…too busy wi other stuff of late…twas ever thus 😉
Looks like it was a great day for everyone involved…sorry to have missed yer sartorial display Tinto…how was the dapper Smallaxe turned oot? No doubt he outshined wi his usual debonair elegance 🙂
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
You were missed by us soffisticates, K1. Sorry you couldn’t make it.
Smallaxe was extremely dapper as per in fine suit and designer shoes. I was as a black hole before the Gretna sartorial supernova (peotry) wot he represents. Went for the James Cameron crumpled linen-jacket-in-Saigon-tropical-look but don’t think it came off and the ivory hempen espadrilles with fuchsia tassles were defo ill-considered.
Still, there’s always Inverness.
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
Well done abody on today.
Sorry I disappeared so abruptly, mrs & lass were dog-tired (as was I, truth be told) and I hate long goodbyes.
Another important day done & dusted – we’re that toty bit closer to The Big One.
😉 🙂
cearc
6 years ago
TC,
All of Inverness is buzzing as they await the sartorial splendours to be revealed. The whole city is awash with …uhhm, what’s the word I’m looking for?..
Ahh, that’s it, indyference.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
“indyference”: love it, you word-smith, you. Any wardrobe pointers?
Is Leakey’s bookshop still there? Almost got lost in there once.
Ian B: Glasgow Intellectuals’ Symposium?
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
@ Tinto, your sartorial exquisitness was once again eclipsed by Mr Slick – the dapper Mr Smallaxe.
You Sir, will have to up your gemme for Inversneckie.
I hear this years trendsetters oop North are taking the Mankini/Kilt combos to extremes.
Rumours have it that Lidl have an exclusive offer on Mankini/Kilt in various tartans in their Inverness and northern stores next Thursday. I could join the queue at one of them on Thursday, if you can afford the £4.99.
Great to meet all the Wingers today, now lets see the central belt invade Inverness, NO EXCUSES !
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
hackalumpoff: that Mankini Look is so ’17, mon vieux. Nana, Queen of Links, alerted me a few months ago to the possibilities suggested by the lungi (q.v.) for the discerning Man about Town.
So, it will probs be Kilmarnock bunnet, Jacobite linen shirt open to the pecs (for The Laydees), said sarong and Doc Martens to finish the combo.
Still working on the socks…
hackalumpoff
6 years ago
@ Tinto, glad to say Primark Inverness has the very outfit for you, they also do a fine range of Bobban socks, naturally midge repellant. Nana, Queen of Links also does a darn good line of them.
I do believe the young Donald J Trump bought several pairs of hers on his last visit so you better be quick as he is due back soon and he is a leader not follower.
A’m knackered, great day, great people from all walks of life, Tinto was sober, the sun shone down on us and a’m still knackered and listening to this.
Just had a kip, I was knackered. Great to see all the usual faces today. Ken what? I think we might be winning 🙂
Ian Brotherhood
6 years ago
@Thepnr –
Ah think ye’re right brother.
😉
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@hackalumpoff: “DARN good line of them”.
Saw what you did there: to’al respek.
“Tinto was sober”: an outrageous suggestion. My seconds will be around to demand satisfaction, sirrah.
That first beautiful day was a bit weird Smallaxe and the one with girl with no eyes will give me nightmares. I’m very sensitive, you know.
Still beelin’ at the ridiculous route but, as Paula Rose said, winding through the schemes might have encouraged a lot of people to come out (both senses).
Great to meet new faces who were just names, including the Hairy String.
Quinie frae Angus
6 years ago
What a grand day it was yesterday, such a sunny and inspiring afternoon with my Wingy family and the wider Yes movement.
Started off with that lovely “witchy-woo” moment in the Kilted Kangaroo beer garden, when Cactus, Thepnr and I spotted this most unusual and beautiful circular rainbow around the sun. Just as we were discussing its intrinsic wonder, Thepnr suddenly reminded us of the legendary Saltire cross seen in the sky by the Scots and the Picts……and the fact that The Battle of Bannockburn took place on this very day 704 years ago……
This was the “Wingy Witchy-woo” experience. Still getting goosebumps now, just thinking about it!
We were then joined by X-Sticks for another pint (and a half) before setting off on the march. What a heart-lifting experience, winding our way through the posh hooses and the scheme, waving and smiling to the passers-by and onlookers. The minute we reached the park I had to ran into the trees to find a “wee” spot, with X-Sticks doing the gentlemanly thing and providing cover for my lady modesties with his fulsome Saltire flag.
Later highlights: standing chatting on the top of the hill with Craig Murray, who polished off the last of my wee whisky supply; the woman in the 1314 pub who took about twenty photies of Jock Scot and me underneath the “1314” sign, saying we made “such a beautiful couple”; and then Cactus and me as the last folk standing, grooving along to a live blues band in another pub before running for the last train back to Glasgow at 11 pm.
What a wonderful day. Thanks, a’body!
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Quinie frae Angus
Yes another good day and I’m always happy that I got off my arse and went along.
Here you go, the rainbow around the sun, colours not obvious in the pictures but they were to the naked eye.
Thanks for the link, looking through all the pictures gave me goosebumps. Independence is normal and it shows!
Gary45%
6 years ago
Regarding the Mexican border situation in America.
Zionist Israel now controls Zionist America.( Israel has been doing this, and worse to innocent Palestinians for decades)
SIMPLES.
World wake up.
Cactus
6 years ago
Postcard frae Bannockburn:
Good to be there with ye all on Saturday, fun times. Also noticed a marked non-presence of those of the opposing view… an unchallenged Yes march, let’s do that like that again…
Even the one corner house that had a big uk flag in their window, as we neared the fields (whom we could see in their garden as we walked up the hill) appeared rather stunned by our march. No nervous smiles, they seemed in just a kind of mesmerised daydream. Ah said, halo there how ye doin’ in passing… but they didn’t even flinch, there was an eerie silence all around them.
Aye we did good Quinie, good fun on the local live scene!
It’s fun to march
It’s fun to sing
It’s fun to dance
It’s fun to win
Be back soon Bannockburn.
Thanks AUOB et al.
Best Wishes,
Archie (not Erchie)
6 years ago
@ hackalumpoff – just in case you miss it theres a photo of the 3 of us on the march. Use Ronnie’s link above and the photo is fairly near the begining.
CameronB Brodie
6 years ago
I see that opposition to immigration isn’t confined to non-practicing Anglicans living in England. Given that Scotland has a comparatively tiny ‘ethnic’ population, certain folk posting on this site must really have a problem respecting difference. Makes you wonder why they support independence, frankly.
Scotland and England share a culture that was created largely through methodological nationalism, but have there own unique cultures and identities. British nationalism is insensitive to these differences (see Brexit, for example). That’s what makes Westminster’s position re. Scotland and the EU, culturally chauvinistic. Racist, rational paternalism, such as Westminster is currently displaying towards Scotland, is a totally Victorian, imperialist mindset.
Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction
Michael Murphy takes on the challenge of providing a concise critical introduction to multiculturalism — a subject whose terrain and terminologies remain analytically confused, culturally entangled, and deeply contested (Hall, Ponzanesi). Indeed, the proliferation of diverse and contradictory uses of the concept in academic, policy, and mass media discourses, especially since 9/11, confirm what postcolonial, literary, and critical race theorists have argued about “multiculturalism” for fifteen years: that it has become a “conceptual grab bag” with “elastic boundaries” and “a corresponding dilution of content” (Mills 2007, p. 89), a “floating” or “empty signifier” onto which “a range of groups project their fears and hopes” (Bhabha, p. 31; Gunew, p. 19), “an incoherent concept, which cannot be meaningfully either affirmed or rejected” (Fish, p. 78; quoted in Murphy, p. 12).
“Multiculturalism” refers to anything from the cultural and political discourses and practices of foreign nationals and immigrants, to those of racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, and subnational minorities; from the social characteristics and problems of governance posed by any society composed of different cultural communities, to issues of tertiary education and curriculum reform; from the strategies and policies adopted to govern or manage the problems of diversity and multiplicity that multicultural societies engender, to the normative justifications of those strategies and policies (Bhabha, Hall, Sharma). Not only do the descriptive, normative, and legal senses of multiculturalism frequently get conflated — a problem that leads Murphy to spend nearly a quarter of the book engaging in what he calls “philosophical brush-clearing” (p. 28). It’s also the case that the literature on multiculturalism is vast, multidisciplinary, theoretically fragmented, and (as one might expect) developed and focused in disparate ways in different countries….
The question of multiculturalism as it is currently understood is the result of the major migrations of populations, as well as of the emergence of civil rights movements, liberation struggles, and feminist movements in Western nations and worldwide. Therefore as the two leading terms on minority rights, feminism and multiculturalism should be comrades in arms. However, as Shigehisa Kuriyama writes, the term multiculturalism is notoriously vague as ‘it sweeps under its blanket generality a tangle of confusion and uncertainties about how cultures can or should relate to each other, and how their worldviews relate to the world’ (Kuriyama, 1994: 337). Conversely feminism is marked by the unstable equilibrium between the universalizing common ground and the recognition of difference between women. Given the internal tensions within the two discourses it is only too obvious that questions of multiculturalism have been connected to feminist issues in many contradictory ways, though the relation between the two begins to have a genealogy of its own.
According to Stuart Hall the ‘multicultural question’ addresses ‘how we are to envisage the futures of those many different societies now composed of peoples from very different backgrounds, cultures, contexts, experiences
and positions in the ranking order of the world; societies where difference refuses to disappear’ (Hall, 2000: 209). Multiculturalism as a concept always intersects with the politics of inclusion and exclusion of multiple cultural forms within nation-states. Stuart Hall distinguishes the concept of ‘the multicultural’ as expressed by the adjective ‘multicultural’ from that of ‘multiculturalism’ as a noun. The term multicultural as adjective addresses problems of society and of governance which stem from different cultural communities coexisting within the same nation-state while at the same time retaining and protecting something of their ‘original’ culture and identities. In contrast, ‘multiculturalism’, as a noun, refers to ‘strategies and policies adopted to govern or manage the problems of diversity and multiplicity which multi-cultural societies throw up’ (Hall, 2000: 209). Thus, ‘the multicultural’ is a theoretical and contested discourse whereas ‘multiculturalism’ is a governing policy of specific nation-states….
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy: Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice.
Abstract
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and culturalism, including discussion of the full range of issues, debates and controversies that are emerging in the field of multicultural psychotherapy. Beginning with a general critique of race, culture and ethnicity, the book explores issues such as the notion of interiority and exteriority in psychotherapy, racism in the clinical room, race and countertransference conflicts, spirituality and traditional healing issues. Contributors from the United States, Britain and Canada draw on their professional experience to provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of the following subjects: critical perspectives in race and culture in psychotherapy; governing race in the transference; racism, ethnicity and countertransference; intersecting gender, race, class and sexuality; spirituality, cultural healing and psychotherapy; and future directions. This book will be of interest not only to practising psychotherapists, but also to students and researchers in the field of mental health and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of psychotherapy in a multicultural society. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
As Smallaxe was saying recently, I think Paula Rose would have liked it, or that kookie, strange little girl (cue The Stranglers) Lucia Daines who flits noiselessly around the PRMG doing the domestic needfuls but is never seen.
I think that strange little girl has been somewhat disillusioned by certain people or maybe just a person; link to youtube.com
Quite sad really, intit?
I’m gone for the day, I leave this for all who take the time to watch and understand; link to youtube.com
With all it’s sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world, strive to be happy.
Namaste, my friends.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Quite so, Smallaxe. Take care.
Some find this a trifle bleak but the poet suffered a mental breakdown following the Enclosure Acts and the destruction of his traditional rural world, where familiar landmarks of common land and woods, with their sentimental significance, were swept away in the name of progress and the enrichment of the Tories who acquired land formerly held by the community.
Being able to mastering the joy of living, really does boil down to how you learn to view the world. A patriarchal, colonial education (epistemology) leads to colonial aphasia and the perpetuation of colonial practice and inequality (see Brexit, ffs).
WHY TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE?
FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS, SUCCESSES AND LIMITATIONS
THE POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE
CONCLUSION: FEMINISM, POSTCOLONIAL LEGAL THEORY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Inspired by feminist legal theory and postcolonial literal studies this article interrogates the ‘transitional justice discourse’ and coins critiques which re-examine the discipline’s key tenets; namely, democracy, liberalism, rule of law and human rights. It argues that while transitional justice can be seen as one of the masculine human rights strategies that are reminiscent of imperial intervention in the lives of postcolonial subjects, it is open to seizure by the same. This is possible in transitional contexts since these situations create opportunities for stakeholders to rethink the inadequacies of the accepted discourse, and to subscribe to new ways of seeking justice.
Keywords
transitional justice, postcolonial and feminist legal theory, democracy, liberalism, power, human rights, justice
Again and again I keep forgetting. How do you do a specific search for a commenter’s history of comments on Wings? I keep doing the ‘wings over Scotland ‘so and so says’ in the goggle search bar and sure enough thousands of hits. But it’s just the threads that come up and sure there may be a comment from said poster within that thread, but not gonnae search through every thread to find a commenters particular comments?
But I recall doing something a little more advanced before that bdtt put up years ago and it gave all the comments from that particular commenter, I know cause I put my name in and up they all came.
Ronnie Anderson
My Yes Group are interested in ordering some Rolls of the Tape you gave me samples of on Saturday.
Can you post the details on here please….
Or if anyone else knows how to order some…that’d be great
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
K1: I’m sure BDTT will be your man.
Michael McCabe
6 years ago
Hi Tinto was great to put face to the name at Bannockburn. Great crowd Great day.
It was our pleasure entirely, Michael. We’ll meet again soon, hopefully. link to youtube.com
🙂
cearc
6 years ago
Freedom day for wee birdies here. The evil monster has been slain.
Sunshine and the scent of elderflowers. Wee birdies pecking amongst the flowers and futilely attempting to catch wee moths that dance tantalising above their heads. Dust baths galore. All is well in the world again for them.
Me? Well there’s a garage and two poultry sheds full of shite to tackle.
Daisy Walker @ 11.06
Hi Daisy
Thanks for replying so quickly.
My mobile doesn’t get a signal in this house.
(That’s why one of the kids gave me it …. lol)
Anyhoo….. If you mean to message me then yes I can give you it!
But if you want to speak to me directly then it will need to be the land line,
Which is best for you?
Oh and there’s also an Email address
Whatever suits you best.
If you are looking for a specific word or words associated with that user’s input, you can type them in the “all these words:” or “any of these words:” boxes.
When you hit enter/return, you should get a list of Wings’ pages containing the username.
You may have an idea of when something was posted, in which case, as the hits are dated, you can ignore those which don’t fit chronologically, saving a bit of time.
When you click on a likely page, wait for it to finish loading then hold down the “FIND” key combination – COMMAND-F (Mac) or CONTROL-F (Win) – and paste the username you seek into the wee text box.
The first example found should be highlighted so you can read around the occurrence to see if it’s what you’re looking for. If not, click the DOWN arrow in the FIND box to jump to the next occurrence. Rinse and repeat…
You can do the same for a specific page, like “off-topic”, by pasting the page’s url into the “site or domain:” box.
Please bear with me, although this is the BBC. I’m only claiming my 15 seconds [sic] of Fame.
It’s aimed at those of you who don’t know me, may be have an interest in some of my posts on the main site, but might be wondering to yourselves how to say my first name. (You wouldn’t be alone nor the first.)
What gets me is the increasingly common mispronunciation of AvieMORE, which becomes AVIEmore, even from some Scottish announcers now.
Worse still, Pravdasound4 has discovered a new range of mountains in Scotland called the CAINgoms, apparently.
And while rustling up Mrs TC’s dinner (viande hachee en facon “Cadzow”), I heard a BBC wummin rubbing it into some poor German journo about his team’s defeat by South Korea. Quite gobsmacked after all that when she asked him who he would be supporting in the England V Belgium game? Bizarre.
Is it a deep-seated insecurity or something?
Any way, I proffer a topical platter for your retro-enjoyment:
What I like even less is the mispronouncing of names as practised by snobs and Tories.
Like Norman LA mont,when in fact is of norse origin and is Lamont or David MUNdell when in fact it actually properly pronounced as Mundle.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
@DMH: yes, they get on my nazzums too.
You may recall in the 60s, football-types Willie WADDell and Jimmy FRIZZell (just an alternative old form of Fraser) had their names pronounced by English announcers with the stress on the second syllable.
Indeed, Fred, although in darkest Lanarkshire your last becomes cadger’s wap.
Other insults are available….
Braw day furrit, eh?
Fred
6 years ago
Braw day indeed Tinto, been watching The Bridge, also braw, & realised ah can understaun Danish!
Ben Oovi, sun crackin rocks which a few short months ago were under four feet of snaw! Some country? Nae midgies but clegs ferocious if slow, including the fancy Episcopalian wans wi the green eyes!
Thepnr
6 years ago
My wife left today for a few days hillwalking around Fort William, I’m left on my tod with three dogs to mind. Here’s a wee picture of the three of them.
The one in the middle is ours, the big one is a guide dog puppy and is just about to start his training so we might not see him again. The blur is my sister’s dog and she’s away walking with the wife too and left me in charge.
While I was looking at these pictures I saw this one of the wife walking the West Highland way with our dog last year. Thought you might like it, wish me luck as a dogsitter lol.
Dunno if anyone else would like to lodge a complaint with National Express Coaches like I have but here goes.
Watched their recent advert (not of choice, I was waiting to buy a ticket) and the promotion of “Daily journeys to 10 UK cities and 100’s of others.”
Problem is – ALL 10 “UK cities” are located in England. None at all in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. So, I’ve left them the message this was hardly “national” nor did it cover what you’d expect people to understand by the term “UK”. (I know, I know, I’m a true, vile sep. as one contributor here called me, giving me a virtual bear hug in the process, but you gotta play it by their rules sometimes – if only, in order to turn the yoon words back onto their yoon countenances.)
Anyhow – whatever you do – I’ll have brought it to your attention thanks to the admuirable adminning of Rev. Stu.
Tinto Chiel
6 years ago
Some more “Danish” for you, Fred, while Cherry Wainer goes mental on the old Hammond:
Chanced upon an old volume of Greek apothegms/proverbs, including these Delphic ones:
“The old hen is worth twenty chicks.”
“The old cat chases young mice.”
*Muses thereon*
Answers please, on a £20 note, to:
Self, “The Shambles”, 666, Main Street, Cadzow, Darkest Lanarkshire.
cearc
6 years ago
Thepnr,
Enough time to teach the pup the ‘fetch a cold beer from the fridge’ command!
Thepnr
6 years ago
cearc
Good idea, will get started now before they get their tea 🙂
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Ian Brotherhood
Thanks for the heads up on the Netflix documentary “The Vietnam War”. I’ve just watched the fist episode and am hooked. Will watch all weekend, I’m amazed that this program was even made.
Andy smith
6 years ago
Can anyone give me any details on planned flag display on Salisbury crags/Arthur’s seat,tomorrow?
Fred
6 years ago
Guys, if U remember we discussed a book, “His Bloody Project!” a while back, the author Graeme MacRae Burnet featured on an Alba prog’ during the week. The village featured in the book was based on Culduie in Wester Ross post the Clearances & the author explained how he managed to create a work of fiction read like fact. Ah still think it wiz true. Clever stuff & well worth a read!
Thepnr
6 years ago
@Fred
I bought that on your recommendation, great book and I even got my Mother in Law to read it. She kept it and I’ve yet to get it back 🙁
That’s very Highland River of you, Fred.
Poor Smallaxe: I doubt we’ll see him again if he’s had the full Garden Centre Experience. He was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Or his shoes, ftm.
Oh, you’re back! Please disregard my last elegant and elegiac remarks.
“Sick squid ono.” : oh, dear…
Tinto,
You’ll probably know what this guy’s singing about;
Paolo Conte:”Via Con Me”
link to youtube.com
Would you like salt and vinegar…pickled onion?
😉
@ Tinto “Ken!” ken.
Tinto,
If you think sick squid was bad, wait till you meet Jack the Kipper.
link to youtube.com
Ye feart noo?
Don’t mention the Garden Centre…FFS, start a crowdfund!
🙁
Spooky: just back from sudden visit to local garden centre ordered by SWIMBO. Telepathy I tell you. Nothing bought, though so CWoT.
Fred I ken, Kenn, ken? And I don’t come fae Fife, ken? I won’t even mention hazel nuts.
That’s song is all about an Italian importuning a young woman, Smallaxe. Quite shocking but I’m broadminded.
“Jack the Kipper” 😛
“That’s song is all about an Italian importuning a young woman, Smallaxe. Quite shocking but I’m broadminded.”
I thought it was a Frenchman ordering a special fish with chips!
‘Broadminded’, it’s not just your mind, Tinto, bus and back-end of, springs to mind.
“Won’t waste my time feeling sorry for him
I’ve seen the other side to being thin
Roll us both down a mountain and I’m sure the fat man would win”
link to youtube.com
The choice of song in this comment is purely coincidental, all characters are fictitious, except for those that aren’t.
😉
But, Smallaxe, you said I filled out those taupe crushed velvet culottes beautifully…..
*Sniffs into hankie*
Tinto, I was only jesting with you, old fruit, please,
Don’t Cry for Me;
link to youtube.com
Now don’t go saying that I played that song to make you melancholy because you started with a head like a melon and a face like a collie.
🙂
only jesting, honest guv!
Forgiven and forgotten already, Smallaxe *stares nervously at profile in mirror*.
Life is but a melancholy flower, indeed. Or a melon-cauliflower, I forget which.
Life is like an ashtray, full of little doubts(doughts?).
I like this…a lot,
link to youtube.com
I’m now going for a little nap of exhaustion due to post-traumatic garden centre syndrome.
Can’t live with them, can’t strangle them. Seh lavvee (French)
douts?
Hi Smallaxe it’s good to see you turning over a new leaf
I do like “duelling banjo’s” personal reasons from waaay back lol. Anyway just found another version that tickled my fancy.
link to youtube.com
Not even that can cheer me up this morning, Thepnr.
A song for WM:
link to youtube.com
Haudadod! It’s a great day after all!
link to youtube.com
Why they walked;
link to youtube.com
Well, incredible events and most of the rest of the UK just carries on up the swannee. Nurse! But yeah, IanB joining the SNP is a real stunner, hope he restarts SSP after a YES – not that I’m a supporter but I like the diversity, same as Tommy getting elected way back when, no matter what baggage he carried.
So it makes it a bit difficult because I like being non-aligned, feel I can actually help Indy and the SNP better being outside, posting in alien media, and even in real life. As for the diversity though, that is a strength not a weakness of the Indy movement, and it seems to me we should fall out at times, as long as we get back together behind YES.
So a song for all of us, longer version.
link to youtube.com
Nice to see claymores being extracted fae the thatch for sharpening all over the shop & congrats to Ian Brotherhood & Co for coming aboard!
I would say that Mundell is mair o a wee toly than a wee shite! What does the panel think.
A bit of Skerryvore to celebrate the days events wid be nice!
@yesindyref2
Yes, Ian B’s decision to join the SNP had me blinking a bit as well. I salute that decision because it showsthat “Independence First” is all that matters.
I admire and respect ian B very much and it’s only through this site that I know of him. Like me he absolutely has the best interests of the Scottish people in mind and especially the poorest of us.
Good on you Ian, you’ve got me seriously thinking about doing the same. It’s no more than supporting Scotland and I’m sure the SNP could find room for a few more left wingers with Scotland and her peoples interests at heart.
@ Nana 08:07 12/06
Again, thank you. I have written to the SP for further information.
Fred,
“The Angry Fiddler” Skerryvore;
link to youtube.com
Gon yersel!
🙂
@Tinto Chiel
I guess you hugged a few stones at the weekend from your music choices 🙂
Mighty Fine Smallaxe! Skerryvore = Big Rock, gerrit kid?
Got it, Fred,
Get this;
link to youtube.com
😉
Not sure what was most surprising. Ian B joining the SNP or Murray Foote coming out for Indy!
A pretty good day all round what with the constitutional matter hitting the international press and it actually rained at last!
@ cearc
It’s been a great day 🙂 Feel like we are finally fighting back. Aboot time the gloves came aff.
link to youtube.com
One of my favourite songs sang in Gaelic by the lovely Karen Matheson and an uplifting ending wi the pipes.
link to youtube.com
I love Scotland. It is the most beautiful country in the world with the greatest people and an absolute wealth of talent.
As an independent nation we can and we will shine a light across the shadows of this world and make it a brighter and better place. Peace.
“Now is the Time”
link to youtube.com
😉
Thanks Smallaxe, superb!
@Thepnr: hee hee. Closest I got was a Viking hogsback gravestone at St Blane’s. Just as well ‘cos I hear yon Ronnie Wood has wandering hands.
Welcome Ian B. I only joined on September 21 2014 but have voted that way since 1974 and I consider myself well to the Left *adjusts John Maclean silk lounging pyjamas*. “A braid kirk is appin tae aa” as my pipe-smoking granny (father’s side) used to say before downing her pint of Guinness for breakfast.
Blackford’s stance has added to the membership already and is a big morale booster for the Bannockburn march. Hope there’s lots of Hands off our Parliament banners to ram home the message.
Indyref’s started already.
Spookily, this just arrived in my inbox:
link to musicinscotland.com
Tinto,
Spookily Evo;
link to itunes.apple.com
😉
Fred, you’re welcome. See above^
😉
Cheers chums,
Sorry didn’t reply sooner, it’s been mental, eh?
Next up, FMQs for some Ruth&Richard-skelping, then, hopefully, Mundell The Boneless stuttering out his resignation at 1-ish in the HOC.
😉
Well it’s been an interesting few days, eh! Not before time the gloves came off. Boy did that ruffle a few feathers. I was expecting FMQ to be a bit lively, but what did we get? Thon Labour nonentity on about hummingbird beaks. Whit!
We are right into a constitutional crisis and that’s what we get, hummingbirds beaks. Nicola must resign now, or should it be Humza.Whit about the colonel and wee willie winkie, they seem tae be awfie quiet. Wonder why. SNP membership on the rise, former no voters saying it’s outrageous what is happening and will now vote yes. It’s a’ kickin off.
Here’s a wee song that I would like to apply to Munnell, Secretary of State for naewhere.
link to youtube.com
If only it was as easy as this Tinto and I would be right there at the front.
link to youtube.com
Marie, I would don my famous white sneakers and black sox combo for that one.
I have also found a conveyance for Peerie Mun’ell:
link to youtube.com
Big Bad Dan was The Man.
@Marie –
First time I’ve seen ‘Dance For Freedom’.
Wee tear in the eye…
🙂
This put more than a tear in my eye;
link to youtube.com
Dae ye ever wish ye’d never heard sumthin! Ye dae noo!
For Fluffy;
link to youtube.com
Alice Cooper:”Only Women Bleed”
link to youtube.com
Ozzy Osbourne:”Dreamer”;
link to youtube.com
I’ll raise you, mon vieux haricot:
link to youtube.com
There’s always this:
link to youtube.com
Like the words…..
@Smallaxe (10.28) –
🙂
Dexy’s Midnight Croakers
Ian, didn’t Kevin Rowland eventually lose it all together and start performing in a dress and Doc Martens?
My aversion to the union jackstika and associated roundels etc has subconsciously put me off mods but this is really rock so that’s ok, isn’t it?
link to youtube.com
Hi guys,
That Dexy’s song was howling, if I’d paid for a ticket for that you’d have to bail me out.
John Fogarty: theme to “The Finder”;
link to youtube.com
😉
Swamp rock, ya bass.
Hi Tinto,
Did you get your fish from the monger?
link to youtube.com
Yer gonnae need a bigger plate!
🙂
Evening, Smallaxe.
Got the last two lemon sole in the joint, actually. No greys this week.
I was looking for a new cummerbund and some garterettes for the goat-nadgering season and stumbled across this on A____n:
link to amazon.co.uk
As they say, I saw this and thought of you…
Evening, Tinto.
Saw this…
link to youtube.com
Guess who I thought of?
I’ve been musing a while on your conundrum, old mole.
It can’t be us, ‘cos we’ve both got hats. The blonde is a Laydee, and we’re not.
You saying I’m a lutenist? At least it’s better than a morris dancer, I suppose.
Stick to the lute, Tinto;
link to youtube.com
That Morris dancing can be dangerous;
link to youtube.com
Oot ther skulls oan scrumpy, sotheyur!
@Smallaxe –
🙂 🙂 🙂
FFS man, where do you find this stuff?
So-fekkin-perb.
Ian,
Where do I find it?;
link to youtube.com
😉
Goodnight, brother.
Thanks Smallaxe, one night in the old Clutha the star turn was a team of Morris Dancers. With blacked up faces & swords they reminded one of a night in the Caravelle.
Can I use the great piece by smallaxe I believe:
Scotland the Brave
v
Scotland the slave
I would like this on a t-shirt.
Fred,
You should have been in the Caravel when it was still the El Paso.
😉
*****************************************************************
winifred mccartney,
Please use my words as you see fit, Winifred, I would be honoured.
Thank you.
🙂
Morning, Smallaxe.
Your MD clip was a teaker, as we used to say in the punishment wing of my old school (the whole school, actually). Imagine a band of lute-playing morris dancers. They’d probs go down a bomb in post-Brexit England.
Could make Mickie Most a fortune.
Just signed ‘David Mundell must resign ‘ petition on change.org ……. initiated by Ian Brotherhood. ( Partner signed it too ).
From Twitter (Paula Rose)…
“Graeme Turner
@gturner1969
16 minutes ago
#GlasgowArtSchool Q. Does this photograph from last night suggest O2 was in fire before the Art School. The Academy roof is fully ablaze whilst the west and east ends of the Art School don’t look as if they are in fire! O2 Was apparently up for sale!”
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
For Macart:
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
That’s what ah’m talkin’ about. 🙂
Pele’s headed goal. Awesome.
And Macart, re Iceland, my diddy team humbly submits:
link to archive.is
“Pele’s headed goal. Awesome.”
Oh, yes and possibly the most powerful header ever from a man/salmon seemingly just hanging in the air, waiting for the ball to come to him.
For all that, the effortless passing, overlapping and sheer power of the final shot for the fourth goal just summed up Brazil for me.
*wipes away a silent tear*
@Tinto Chiel
Heh! 🙂
Y’know, my old dad gave me a special birthday gift a couple of years back. It was an old worn envelope and within it was his most cherished possession. It was a ticket to a football match.
1967 England v Scotland
Made a point of acquiring a DVD of the match to go with the ticket. Still can’t find paw in the crowd. 😀
Proper football.
@Macart: just can’t go on, my friend, with all those memories…..
*Blubs like a big girlie*
For Masel’;
link to youtube.com
@Macart: just can’t go on, my friend, with all those memories…..
*Blubs like a big girlie*
Warning: this may be a double post and consequent hammers.
For the fitba’ fans;
link to newsthump.com
Izat a Fact?
😉
@Smallaxe: can’t go on now, mon vieux haricot.
Mofftaemapit!
Night, Night, Tinto.
“Sweet Dreams”
link to youtube.com
Morning Smallaxe and other sophisticates:
link to youtube.com
Feeling all hippy dippy this morning.
The blue and the white of the flag shines bright
link to youtube.com
Hope that Amy being such an ardent Yesser and Rangers fan will encourage more of them to cross the floor in the next referendum.
Jings, crivvens, help ma boaby recap… what was that… that was a FUN night, last night. Somegoodbuddy kept feeding me drams of whisky.
Well done Serbia.
Here’s a quizzer:
Q. Which fictional character flew into Cherry Tree Lane and which house number did she arrive at?
It’s always everywhere.
6 sleeps to go.
Is it 17 and Ruth Davidson, Cactus?
It’s been driving me mad…
Cactus,
As Tinto has said #17 and Ruth Poppinson;
link to youtube.com
Bonus Song;
link to youtube.com
See you at Bannockburn.
🙂
Tinto,
Driving you mad?
link to youtube.com
How will we know the difference?
🙂
Evening, aye ye were right the 1st time Tinto Chiel, let’s go fly a Britite, I do rather like Poppinson too smallaxe 🙂
Here’s a question for a Scottish poll, to get em thinking:
Q. “Should Scotland vote to return to being an independent country, which of the following parties would you vote for to form the first new government…”
– Scottish National Party
– Scottish Green Party
– Scottish Liberal Democrats
– Scottish Labour (abstentioning) Party
– Undecided / don’t know
– Other
– Won’t vote
– Scottish Conservative Party
Paint a picture.
(There was a fair bit of lovin’ last night on here, it mustve been all the FUN and excitement of the football or summin)
Don’t know where you get them from, Smallaxe old bean.
Mad, moi? I think Harvey would have something to say about that.
Well, he would but I don’t speak rabbit.
Though I can rabbit on, obvs.
Oh, look! A carrot…
Fairy Nuff, Cactus: Stetson or Fedora on Sats? Don’t want to clash. Can’t pluck up the courage to wear my Homburg.
Cactus Says:
“(There was a fair bit of lovin’ last night on here, it must’ve been all the FUN and excitement of the football or summin)”
There was more than a fair bit of lovin’Cactus, I’m not Foolin’ there was a;
“Whole Lotta Love”
link to youtube.com
You asked for that!
😉
Tinto,
You know what’s coming, don’t you;
link to youtube.com
You asked for it!
😉
I may wear a Panama hat.
Hehe I’ll be travelling in top-hat avec monocle, with side cain and cape, in amongst all the rest of us SuperScots, courtesy of Bonnie Bannockburn.
A whole lotta lovin’ it always is smallaxe excellent, we both knows.
Fun at Bannockburn it is.
Send a postcard…
Also may one make a polite request s’il vous please.
Could somebuddy please bring their DRONE along to Bonnie Bannockburn so we can get some aerial shots, ta.
Scotland on tour 2018.
Cactus,
Your postcard;
link to youtube.com
You asked for it!
No Mean City, right enough.
Eh an by the way… LUV XXX
link to youtube.com
LOVE three times a day.
Turn it UP!
(hope I got the music link right)
Cum wi slow it an chill fi a likkle bit wah yuh say?
link to youtube.com
Dat cool enuff fi yuh?
😉
Howsabout the Homburg TC yeah, cool hat, noting white gloves and Cameo accessories are optional extras… hehe, said mj 🙂
Bannockburn, pretty middleish in Scotland, excellent transport links, visit Scotland… for you.
Come on down Inverness
Come on up Dumfries
Take a drive across from Drymen
Hitch a ride over from Dunfermline
This is your Summer 2018 Scotland.
Get to YOUR gig.
It’s FREE.
Groovy vibes Smallaxe, jah man 🙂
U set da tone on da microphone.
Looking like Brian Doon The Toon could be right about the “Fire!”
“U set da tone on da microphone.”
😀
Homburg, you say, Cactus?
Black or grey?
TC,
Black or grey? Brown, surely?
How so, cearc?
Doubt it would complement my skin tones.
Try go for all three TC.
LOVE three times a day.
Breakfast, late-lunch and dinner.
Hey cearc xx
WOW! The significance of what we will all be doing this Saturday at Bannockburn. History will remember the 23rd. Take photographs and video.
It’s gonna be an emotional day.
It’s gonna be a fun day.
It’s gonna be.
A reminder of your history Scotland:
link to en.m.wikipedia.org
Here comes Scotland!
Just catching up with events and see that Westminster appears to believe itself the bastion of liberal democracy and reflective cultural competence. Apart from when it comes to dealing with Scotland, obviously, where Westminster appears to favour authoritarian despotism. Such is the political morphology of British nationalism.
A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency
link to ndpr.nd.edu
Subject, action and polis: Theorizing political agency
link to tampub.uta.fi
Pedagogy of Freedom, Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage
link to abahlali.org
@ Stravaiger says:
12 June, 2018 at 9:39 am
@Daisy Walker
Will you be at AOUB at Bannockburn or Inverness? Any chance of meeting up? There’s something I’d like to chat about.
I will be at Bannockburn, I will loiter at the Wings stall… look for the big blond dog with one ear pointing forward… either that or get Ronnie to point me out.
I don’t do illegal by the way, just to be clear.
O/T Folks I saw a tweet on the Revs account a few days ago, which seemed to claim that oil exports amounted to 30% of all UK exports in 2015 – I’d like to verify same, but can’t find it anymore, can anyone shed light on this.
Best wishes to all.
Three, Cactus?
Will have to consult my tailors, Grabbit and Runne for my new chapeau marron 😉
@ Daisy Walker,
Cool. Nothing illegal, just some stuff that of necessity can’t be talked about on an open forum.
TC,
So you’re going dressed as a chestnut? See, I told you the hat should be brown.
@ cearc: damn you, you’re good!
Can’t really argue with a woman *rubs plaster casts on arm and leg ruefully*
Daughter No.2 tells me there was a five-minute Scottish news so we can all gather round the one-bar electric fire with our Bovrils to watch the England game. Huzzah!
Never has obscure place-name research appeared so appealing. You know who I mean, Lickprivick…..
Just to announce that the snow drifts have been cleared on the Auchenshoogle bypass and it seems that this man will appear on the fields, highways, and byeways of Stirling. I am so looking forward to this or
Just to announce that the snow drifts have been cleared on the Auchenshoogle bypass and it seems that this man will appear on the fields, highways, and byeways of Stirling. I am so looking forward to renewing previous meetings. See you all there.
A bit like a cat has three names TC, a hat has three names:
link to en.m.wikipedia.org
A hat for each & every occasion.
The naming of hats.
Miaowww 🙂
See ye there Archie, should be fun.
I was watching some of the auld Glasgow Trams black n white footage again… mesmerising… back then, EVERYBUDDY wore a hat.
Have you been to Glasgow’s World Famous Transport Museum…
It’s worth a walk and The Tall Ship is there on oor Clyde.
Scotland rising.
Checklist for Bannockburn:
– Arrive in the morning, make a day of it
– Wear suitable footwear and bring water
– Admire the glorious turnout
– March
– Smile and wave at any unlearn’ed ones who may turn up
– Sing, chant, dance and have fun
– To destination
This is OUR march FOR independence.
All Under One Banner.
Cactus,
The fashion or habit of going hatless is a very modern phenomenon, it only started about 50yrs. ago.
Strange really. I guess people have come to like getting sunstroke (largely undiagnosed) in summer and bloody cold in winter.
@Ian Brotherhood
Read your suggestion the other day on the MT about rebuilding the GSA in a “better” location that is more accessible.
I think that’s a very good idea and if they intend to demolish totally the existing structure then it becomes a great idea.
In other words it should not be demolished if it can be saved, they could take it down brick by brick and rebuild it in a more suitable spot where it might stand for another 200 years at least.
Somebody will have to pay out for the damage caused by this fire and that will be the underwriters of the insurance companies of whoever is found responsible.
Whatever I would definitely rebuild it, maybe 20 years ago a historic school in Dundee burnt down, Morgan Academy. The entire thing was rebuilt and from the outside was identical to the original. It can be done, where there’s a will…
Here’s the old Morgan on fire and why it happened.
link to archive.li
Then there’s the new, which coincidently celebrates it’s 150th this year.
link to archive.li
Hi Thepnr.
The evening of the Morgan fire, Pete the camera was up The Law and saw the plume of smoke. He took a photo from Law Road (the road that winds its way up The Law) then headed over to Stobbie.
I uploaded his series of pics to my original “Doon The Toon” web site, which was captured by the Internet Archive.
Due to the way the Internet Archive worked in those days, sometimes a pic wasn’t captured. Other times, when you click the “Next” button, the pic doesn’t appear until you reload the page. If a pic just appears as its text title, eg “morgan01.JPG”, try reloading the page as well. I saw his first pic from Law Road after a reload/refresh page.
Onnyhoo, you can explore here:-
link to web.archive.org
BTW: the reason the pics appear so small nowadays is because, in 2001, they were fine on an 800×600 monitor!
@Brian Doonthetoon
Man,they were brilliant pictures, so thanks for that and especially to Pete. I remember the fire well but seeing the gutted shell back then I was totally amazed that just a few years later a brand new Morgan looking exactly the same was in it’s place.
So now this year we have a school celebrating it’s 150th birthday when in fact it’s less than 15 years old which reminds me of this which is total class 🙂
link to youtube.com
completely O/T
What is happening to our plants. Last year I had so many apples the branches were almost breaking. Looks like the same is happening again though apple trees are usually one year on/one year low harvest. But it’s my rasps . The stems are usually about five feet tallest. I have never seen so many raspberries and the stems are up to over seven feet and bending over. Are the plants telling us about another Siberian episode coming up this winter?
Dave, rasp canes shot up without a check last year in the wet Summer, flowers fertilised well by bees in that good spell this Spring, hence the promised crop. Can U get European labour to pick them though, that is the question?
Fred: haven’t heard of the Willox the Warlock you mentioned on a M/T, though I see there is a book available on him on A____n.
We once lived in a holiday house in Mellon Udrigle (opp. Anthrax Island) near Loch na Beiste but survived. Mind you, I didn’t go up there at midnight slathered in anchovy paste.
Think the kelpie was supposed to have disposed of a schoolmaster or summink, so it can’t have been all bad 😉
I have been posting a quote of the day on my facebook page for some time now. Thought some of you would like to see this one.
Quote of the day, from Ian Hamilton in his book STONE of DESTINY
“I did not go to London all these years ago to fetch back a hunk of stone. I went to do something for my country. I wanted to see if it was still alive because at that time it seemed dead. Nobody cared. I was not then, nor am I now, greatly concerned with how Scotland is governed. Independence will come when the people want it.”
Might I ask that anyone who does not wish to see Scotland once more reduced to simply a region of the UK, whether or not you wish independence, to come along to Bannockburn on Saturday (23rd June 2018). It’s rather important.
I shall be there, so if you see a rather short, overweight OAP being towed about (usually to places I don’t want to go) by a big Bernese Mountain Dog………….it’s probably me.
Do say hello.
@ Tinto, Willox apparently took a charm to present to the duke of Gordon who was raising sojers to fight Napoleon. The duke thought Willox was joining-up so was not too happy. The charm guaranteed the wearer against musket-balls so his grace made Willox wear it while ordering a party of new recruits to load-up. The Warlock took to his heels while the sojers fired after him!
Anchovy-paste like orange brassieres would require a “Safe” word methinks!
Fred, I thought salesmen had to believe in their wares, as in the power of positive thinking?
Did a reccy of the Bannockburn course yesterday and we have been shunted on to streets through housing for the most part. I really hope we get the bods out to sicken the Britnats.
Is it a 1.30pm kick-off, Bob?
Sorry, Bill.
You can take the girl out of Motherwell:
link to youtube.com
Btw, came across a Jacobite slogan that’s bang up to date:
“Prosperity to Scotland and no Union.”
This is for hackalumpoff, a one-man restoration machine, ‘cos he sez Van’s The Man:
link to youtube.com
Love it when the drummer takes a flaky towards the end…
Irish woman sings: Scotsman swoons.
link to youtube.com
I do hope that you will forgive my impertinence, Tinto, old bean, but I will play your choice of song again, this time it may make a certain Ms Lucia Daines swoon.
“My Laggan Love” Dusty Springfield;
link to youtube.com
This place is getting dusty Lucia, in more ways than one.
😉
The Wheel Turns,
“Litha” Celebration of the Summer Solstice/Litha
link to youtube.com
@ Tinto, 2:11PM rightbackatcha link to youtube.com
See you on Saturday.
Wingers, I have three spare seats in my car going from Glasgow Gorbals to Bannockburn on Saturday, will be leaving around 11AM get parked and and flegged up. Reply on here if you need a lift.
Hackalumpoff, for her indoors;
link to youtube.com
😉
For you;
link to youtube.com
🙂
Peace* Love* and Music*
Ah, Smallaxe, remember Miss Daines? Charming young lady, if a bit scatty. And the pert and feisty Paula Rose, the wonderful parties at her gaff: the potted “palms”, the chankie lock on the bog door, the lava lamp lost in the lady’s lavvy, the Ian Brotherhood memorial upturned plant pot with attendant little hostage, the unorthodox smoke-house…
Ou sont les neiges d’antan? Eh, Poindexters?
Hackalumpoff: glad you can make B’burn and take a break from your Herculean labours. Mrs TC says I’ve never even thought of a Wonderful Remark, let alone articulated one.
The Laydees, eh? Can’t live with, can’t live with them…..
*Starts feather-dusting early to avoid unseemly domestic strife*
@ Smallaxe, thanks for that, new to me.
If you ffwd to 13:27 it seems the Norn Irish had the same educational experience as most Scots, Anglification, or whatever our Cameron Brodie might call it.
Here’s another great Irishman, approriate for the times, oi tink.
link to youtube.com
Hackalumpoff,
You’re welcome, I listened to that one before I played it and agree with you about the education similarities.
Christy Moore, is, as you say another of the greats. This track may sound a bit morbid but I like to listen to it through headphones.
Christy Moore:”Danny Boy” [Spoken Poem]
link to youtube.com
Goodnight, I’m heading to Stirling tomorrow, see you there.
🙂
Hi Tinto,
Another Irishman;
Liam Clancy:”Band Played Waltzing Matilda”
link to youtube.com
OI Smallaxe, ” Liam Clancy:Band Played Waltzing Matilda ”
That’s an Eric Bogle song, One of oors !
Here’s one of his best: link to youtube.com
Off to bed, early start on tiling etc.
Hackalumpoff says:
“One of oors”
Smallaxe says:
One World One People “One Love”;
link to youtube.com
Out of Many, One People.
🙂
Out of Many, One People.
There are 7 sides to it.
As you know. 😉
One of the seven, Cactus,
The Blues Brothers:”Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
link to youtube.com
That’s important!
See you tomorrow, Good Buddy.
🙂
It’s gonna be excellently awesome Smallaxe.
RA weather is looking 2b hot n SUNny 🙂
One of the seven.
Upon ramorra.
XMTS.
That The Band Played Waltzing Matilda gets you every time, doesn’t it?
Excellent choices last night gentlemen.
Cactus: strike the Homburg. In view of the meteorological prognostications, I’ll be sporting my classic straw fedora (NOT Panama) with my wee string vest and navy PE shorts (circa 1968).
I’m so sorry I can’t join youse tomorrow. I’m sure it will be a great day and am feeling a bit sad about missing it.
I’m completely birdy-bound at the moment and it would be totally unreasonable to ask my neighbour to shut them up when the runner ducks don’t come home until about 10,30 and the a couple of muscovies even later.
Definitely will do Inverness as I can do it as a day trip.
Tomorrows March, Top Tip: For those of you travelling from the Edinburgh area remember that the roads around the Airport will be congested due to the Highland Show. Noticed yesterday that the City bypass (west bound) was backed up as far as the M8 turn off, Also M8 backed up to Junction 1 Livingston (Edinburgh Bound)from the turn off to the Airport. Leave yourself more time or seek an alternative routes.
@cearc: can’t believe you’re ducking this one out 😛
What eggsactly is the problem? It’s not good to be cooped up all day you know.
Will give my saltire an extra twirl for you (new poles too).
Yep, I’ve chickened out. Or rather I’m all chickened out at the moment. With the added excitement of random, daytime visits from a vixen.
“With the added excitement of random, daytime visits from a vixen.”
Me too, in a way!
😛
Must get the dusting, polishing, dysoning und so weiter done by 1 0’clock.
Ah, but I have the advantage of being able to set a hunter on to mine (when he gets back from his fishing jaunt).
For all you sophisticates/retreads/retros:
link to youtube.com
Salty Bean Fumble link to youtube.com
Where the Soul never dies link to youtube.com
@Ian Brotherhood
You mentioned on the MT about feeling “jaded”. I’m not surprised, it’s not like we’re pounding the streets but evn just keeping up with and reading all that news is a hard slog.
Sometimes I’m like my brain is frying with information overload. I guess that is nothing though to those whose kids are hungry tonight and whose parents believe there is no future for them.
My only goal is no hungry children, no homeless and no individual believing in no future. I can manage a march tomorrow in support of that. We do the best we can and keep doing it then we will eventually get where we want to go.
link to youtube.com
Go Go Go…… Probably the anthem for the next independence campaign but Chuck at his best and most people have never heard this number
link to youtube.com
Good morning, Wingers. A bright sunny morning here in Stirling, see you all soon.?
(?)/ Smile.
Effin phone!
Morning, Smallaxe.
See you later, I hope.
Woops! Forgot this:
link to youtube.com
Morning, Tinto.
See you when you get to the Wings stall.
Wave a flag for me.
this song is for everyone going to Bannockburn today. And for all those who are not going but wish they could. but it is mostly for Me. link to youtube.com Bannockburn here I come.
One has arrived in Stirling, lookin’ our for ye straw fedora TC, we’ll fly em high cearc, in the sunny beer garden oot back xx
We’ve just seen a circular rainbow through the sun, photies taken, look up with sunglasses and wear sunscreen xx
Aye, rub it in, Cactus, wontcha – It’s grey and drizzling here (probably in sympathy with me for not being there)!
Have a great day everyone. Hugs all around.
On the livestream…police estimating 10,000, probably a lot more given they usually underestimate by the thousands….hoping to see familiar faces on the stream, huv a braw day you lot 🙂
@K1: do you have a sick note?
Cactus: too windy for my fed. when I got out the Bentley Con. so went for the classic George Clooney Grecian 2000 look with added smoulder.
Spotted you in your estimable hat on the field after the march. Enjoy your evening 😉
Ma only excuse is that I didn’t get organised in time…too busy wi other stuff of late…twas ever thus 😉
Looks like it was a great day for everyone involved…sorry to have missed yer sartorial display Tinto…how was the dapper Smallaxe turned oot? No doubt he outshined wi his usual debonair elegance 🙂
You were missed by us soffisticates, K1. Sorry you couldn’t make it.
Smallaxe was extremely dapper as per in fine suit and designer shoes. I was as a black hole before the Gretna sartorial supernova (peotry) wot he represents. Went for the James Cameron crumpled linen-jacket-in-Saigon-tropical-look but don’t think it came off and the ivory hempen espadrilles with fuchsia tassles were defo ill-considered.
Still, there’s always Inverness.
Well done abody on today.
Sorry I disappeared so abruptly, mrs & lass were dog-tired (as was I, truth be told) and I hate long goodbyes.
Another important day done & dusted – we’re that toty bit closer to The Big One.
😉 🙂
TC,
All of Inverness is buzzing as they await the sartorial splendours to be revealed. The whole city is awash with …uhhm, what’s the word I’m looking for?..
Ahh, that’s it, indyference.
“indyference”: love it, you word-smith, you. Any wardrobe pointers?
Is Leakey’s bookshop still there? Almost got lost in there once.
Ian B: Glasgow Intellectuals’ Symposium?
@ Tinto, your sartorial exquisitness was once again eclipsed by Mr Slick – the dapper Mr Smallaxe.
You Sir, will have to up your gemme for Inversneckie.
I hear this years trendsetters oop North are taking the Mankini/Kilt combos to extremes.
Rumours have it that Lidl have an exclusive offer on Mankini/Kilt in various tartans in their Inverness and northern stores next Thursday. I could join the queue at one of them on Thursday, if you can afford the £4.99.
The original link to youtube.com
The update link to youtube.com
and link to youtube.com
Great to meet all the Wingers today, now lets see the central belt invade Inverness, NO EXCUSES !
hackalumpoff: that Mankini Look is so ’17, mon vieux. Nana, Queen of Links, alerted me a few months ago to the possibilities suggested by the lungi (q.v.) for the discerning Man about Town.
So, it will probs be Kilmarnock bunnet, Jacobite linen shirt open to the pecs (for The Laydees), said sarong and Doc Martens to finish the combo.
Still working on the socks…
@ Tinto, glad to say Primark Inverness has the very outfit for you, they also do a fine range of Bobban socks, naturally midge repellant. Nana, Queen of Links also does a darn good line of them.
I do believe the young Donald J Trump bought several pairs of hers on his last visit so you better be quick as he is due back soon and he is a leader not follower.
link to youtube.com
A’m knackered, great day, great people from all walks of life, Tinto was sober, the sun shone down on us and a’m still knackered and listening to this.
It’s A Beautiful Day;
link to youtube.com
Cu2_2R8gkYYP_AvWORShwE7MR-E
link to youtube.com
🙂
Namaste
Just had a kip, I was knackered. Great to see all the usual faces today. Ken what? I think we might be winning 🙂
@Thepnr –
Ah think ye’re right brother.
😉
@hackalumpoff: “DARN good line of them”.
Saw what you did there: to’al respek.
“Tinto was sober”: an outrageous suggestion. My seconds will be around to demand satisfaction, sirrah.
That first beautiful day was a bit weird Smallaxe and the one with girl with no eyes will give me nightmares. I’m very sensitive, you know.
Still beelin’ at the ridiculous route but, as Paula Rose said, winding through the schemes might have encouraged a lot of people to come out (both senses).
Great to meet new faces who were just names, including the Hairy String.
What a grand day it was yesterday, such a sunny and inspiring afternoon with my Wingy family and the wider Yes movement.
Started off with that lovely “witchy-woo” moment in the Kilted Kangaroo beer garden, when Cactus, Thepnr and I spotted this most unusual and beautiful circular rainbow around the sun. Just as we were discussing its intrinsic wonder, Thepnr suddenly reminded us of the legendary Saltire cross seen in the sky by the Scots and the Picts……and the fact that The Battle of Bannockburn took place on this very day 704 years ago……
This was the “Wingy Witchy-woo” experience. Still getting goosebumps now, just thinking about it!
We were then joined by X-Sticks for another pint (and a half) before setting off on the march. What a heart-lifting experience, winding our way through the posh hooses and the scheme, waving and smiling to the passers-by and onlookers. The minute we reached the park I had to ran into the trees to find a “wee” spot, with X-Sticks doing the gentlemanly thing and providing cover for my lady modesties with his fulsome Saltire flag.
Later highlights: standing chatting on the top of the hill with Craig Murray, who polished off the last of my wee whisky supply; the woman in the 1314 pub who took about twenty photies of Jock Scot and me underneath the “1314” sign, saying we made “such a beautiful couple”; and then Cactus and me as the last folk standing, grooving along to a live blues band in another pub before running for the last train back to Glasgow at 11 pm.
What a wonderful day. Thanks, a’body!
@Quinie frae Angus
Yes another good day and I’m always happy that I got off my arse and went along.
Here you go, the rainbow around the sun, colours not obvious in the pictures but they were to the naked eye.
link to imgur.com
@Quinie frae Angus
What we saw yesterday was literately a Halo! Look it up.
link to facebook.com
Yes Bikers Photo’s of Bannockburn .
link to facebook.com
@ronnie anderson
Thanks for the link, looking through all the pictures gave me goosebumps. Independence is normal and it shows!
Regarding the Mexican border situation in America.
Zionist Israel now controls Zionist America.( Israel has been doing this, and worse to innocent Palestinians for decades)
SIMPLES.
World wake up.
Postcard frae Bannockburn:
Good to be there with ye all on Saturday, fun times. Also noticed a marked non-presence of those of the opposing view… an unchallenged Yes march, let’s do that like that again…
Even the one corner house that had a big uk flag in their window, as we neared the fields (whom we could see in their garden as we walked up the hill) appeared rather stunned by our march. No nervous smiles, they seemed in just a kind of mesmerised daydream. Ah said, halo there how ye doin’ in passing… but they didn’t even flinch, there was an eerie silence all around them.
Aye we did good Quinie, good fun on the local live scene!
It’s fun to march
It’s fun to sing
It’s fun to dance
It’s fun to win
Be back soon Bannockburn.
Thanks AUOB et al.
Best Wishes,
@ hackalumpoff – just in case you miss it theres a photo of the 3 of us on the march. Use Ronnie’s link above and the photo is fairly near the begining.
I see that opposition to immigration isn’t confined to non-practicing Anglicans living in England. Given that Scotland has a comparatively tiny ‘ethnic’ population, certain folk posting on this site must really have a problem respecting difference. Makes you wonder why they support independence, frankly.
Scotland and England share a culture that was created largely through methodological nationalism, but have there own unique cultures and identities. British nationalism is insensitive to these differences (see Brexit, for example). That’s what makes Westminster’s position re. Scotland and the EU, culturally chauvinistic. Racist, rational paternalism, such as Westminster is currently displaying towards Scotland, is a totally Victorian, imperialist mindset.
link to ndpr.nd.edu
link to uu.nl
link to psycnet.apa.org
Get Together;
link to youtube.com
🙂
Sara Bareilles:”Brave”;
link to youtube.com
I heard this on my crystal set yesterday and it set my melancholy poet’s soul a-musing.
link to youtube.com
As Smallaxe was saying recently, I think Paula Rose would have liked it, or that kookie, strange little girl (cue The Stranglers) Lucia Daines who flits noiselessly around the PRMG doing the domestic needfuls but is never seen.
It’s a pure mystery, soanitis.
Hi, Tinto,
I think that strange little girl has been somewhat disillusioned by certain people or maybe just a person;
link to youtube.com
Quite sad really, intit?
I’m gone for the day, I leave this for all who take the time to watch and understand;
link to youtube.com
With all it’s sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world, strive to be happy.
Namaste, my friends.
Quite so, Smallaxe. Take care.
Some find this a trifle bleak but the poet suffered a mental breakdown following the Enclosure Acts and the destruction of his traditional rural world, where familiar landmarks of common land and woods, with their sentimental significance, were swept away in the name of progress and the enrichment of the Tories who acquired land formerly held by the community.
link to poetryfoundation.org
Being able to mastering the joy of living, really does boil down to how you learn to view the world. A patriarchal, colonial education (epistemology) leads to colonial aphasia and the perpetuation of colonial practice and inequality (see Brexit, ffs).
uir.ulster.ac.uk/24225/1/International_Human_Rights_Law_Review_Volume_1.2,Feminism,_Postcolonial_Legal_Theory_and_Transitional_Justice,_A_Critique_of_Current_Trends.docx
From postcolonial to post-growth and back
Which ways for a feminist materialist critique of capitalism?
link to kolleg-postwachstum.de
A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective Inquiry into Immigrant Women’s Mental Health Care Experiences
link to researchgate.net
In which most of the participants seem totally gassed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3h–K5928M
Again and again I keep forgetting. How do you do a specific search for a commenter’s history of comments on Wings? I keep doing the ‘wings over Scotland ‘so and so says’ in the goggle search bar and sure enough thousands of hits. But it’s just the threads that come up and sure there may be a comment from said poster within that thread, but not gonnae search through every thread to find a commenters particular comments?
But I recall doing something a little more advanced before that bdtt put up years ago and it gave all the comments from that particular commenter, I know cause I put my name in and up they all came.
Any help much appreciated. 🙂
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh at a Forward Shop (YES Cowal)meetinmg at Dunoon Pier listening to three powerful young ladies
yescowal.scot/2018/06/22/the-better-country-we-can-build/
Ronnie Anderson
My Yes Group are interested in ordering some Rolls of the Tape you gave me samples of on Saturday.
Can you post the details on here please….
Or if anyone else knows how to order some…that’d be great
K1: I’m sure BDTT will be your man.
Hi Tinto was great to put face to the name at Bannockburn. Great crowd Great day.
Hi, Guys,
What else can I play??
link to youtube.com
Seen?
Again, great day, great people, it was a privilege to be in your company. Peace, Love and Independence.
liz g It was Daisy Walker who got the tape printed put a message up for her
Me too and coming right back at ya, Michael:
link to youtube.com
Ronnie Anderson @ 10.49
Thanks Ronnie will do.
For Hackalumpoff;
link to youtube.com
I’ll bet you would pay someone to take your back right now. The best advice I can give is to soak your back in whisky, from the inside.
😉
Hey K1, to find a users comments on any Wings page, you…
Press the CTRL + F keys together (find shortcut).
Then type name/word into the pop-up box.
When using a keyboard that is.
Then scroll x.
That’s just search per page mind K1, yeah bdtt knows multi-search.
Full moon soon, just before 6am this mornin’.
Things are sunning up for Scotland. 🙂
Use sunscreen.
Sun is Shining;
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Morning Smallaxe it was grand meeting you and Mrs Smallaxe at Bannockburn on Saturday. Will be back later with some songs.
Good morning, Michael,
It was our pleasure entirely, Michael. We’ll meet again soon, hopefully.
link to youtube.com
🙂
Freedom day for wee birdies here. The evil monster has been slain.
Sunshine and the scent of elderflowers. Wee birdies pecking amongst the flowers and futilely attempting to catch wee moths that dance tantalising above their heads. Dust baths galore. All is well in the world again for them.
Me? Well there’s a garage and two poultry sheds full of shite to tackle.
cearc,
I think you mean a garage and two poultry sheds full of Fertilizer;
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Great lyrics.
🙂
@ Lizg
Re Tape, can you post a mobile number for me to contact you?
Smallaxe,
Hey, she’s even wearing the same harlequin ballgown and heels that I wear to clean out the sheds!
Daisy Walker @ 11.06
Hi Daisy
Thanks for replying so quickly.
My mobile doesn’t get a signal in this house.
(That’s why one of the kids gave me it …. lol)
Anyhoo….. If you mean to message me then yes I can give you it!
But if you want to speak to me directly then it will need to be the land line,
Which is best for you?
Oh and there’s also an Email address
Whatever suits you best.
cearc,
Thought so!
link to youtube.com
😉
@Lizg
E mail would be best if your OK with that.
Best wishes.
Nah, I wear a white lacy number when I’m killing my dinners. The harlequin ballgown is for mucking out.
cearc,
Chantilly Lace?
link to youtube.com
🙂
Daisy Walker @ 1.23
Thanks Daisy email it is then
e.gray61321@gmail.com
(This may be an almost duplicate post.)
Hi K1 says at 8:26 pm last night.
You pleaded,
“Again and again I keep forgetting. How do you do a specific search for a commenter’s history of comments on Wings?”
Here’s the system I use.
Go to Google’s Advance Search –
link to google.com
In the text box marked “this exact word or phrase:”, paste the username – which you have copied EXACTLY from a WOS page – that you want to find.
In the box a wee bit further down, marked “site or domain:”, paste in:-
link to wingsoverscotland.com
If you are looking for a specific word or words associated with that user’s input, you can type them in the “all these words:” or “any of these words:” boxes.
When you hit enter/return, you should get a list of Wings’ pages containing the username.
You may have an idea of when something was posted, in which case, as the hits are dated, you can ignore those which don’t fit chronologically, saving a bit of time.
When you click on a likely page, wait for it to finish loading then hold down the “FIND” key combination – COMMAND-F (Mac) or CONTROL-F (Win) – and paste the username you seek into the wee text box.
The first example found should be highlighted so you can read around the occurrence to see if it’s what you’re looking for. If not, click the DOWN arrow in the FIND box to jump to the next occurrence. Rinse and repeat…
You can do the same for a specific page, like “off-topic”, by pasting the page’s url into the “site or domain:” box.
wingsoverscotland.com/off-topic
Please bear with me, although this is the BBC. I’m only claiming my 15 seconds [sic] of Fame.
It’s aimed at those of you who don’t know me, may be have an interest in some of my posts on the main site, but might be wondering to yourselves how to say my first name. (You wouldn’t be alone nor the first.)
link to bbc.co.uk
Best wishes.
Well done, Sion.
What gets me is the increasingly common mispronunciation of AvieMORE, which becomes AVIEmore, even from some Scottish announcers now.
Worse still, Pravdasound4 has discovered a new range of mountains in Scotland called the CAINgoms, apparently.
And while rustling up Mrs TC’s dinner (viande hachee en facon “Cadzow”), I heard a BBC wummin rubbing it into some poor German journo about his team’s defeat by South Korea. Quite gobsmacked after all that when she asked him who he would be supporting in the England V Belgium game? Bizarre.
Is it a deep-seated insecurity or something?
Any way, I proffer a topical platter for your retro-enjoyment:
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Janis:”Summertime”
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Salvador Dali, Walt Disney and Pink Floyd;
link to youtube.com
Daisy Walker @ 1.23 27/06/18
I would be very happy if I could contact you via email with regards to our mutual interest in songs.
My address is llddc03 at yahoo dot com
Thank you in advance.
What I like even less is the mispronouncing of names as practised by snobs and Tories.
Like Norman LA mont,when in fact is of norse origin and is Lamont or David MUNdell when in fact it actually properly pronounced as Mundle.
@DMH: yes, they get on my nazzums too.
You may recall in the 60s, football-types Willie WADDell and Jimmy FRIZZell (just an alternative old form of Fraser) had their names pronounced by English announcers with the stress on the second syllable.
What a lot of BOLLocks.
Mundell locally munnel, tunnel, funnel, hawkers-bunle.
Indeed, Fred, although in darkest Lanarkshire your last becomes cadger’s wap.
Other insults are available….
Braw day furrit, eh?
Braw day indeed Tinto, been watching The Bridge, also braw, & realised ah can understaun Danish!
Ben Oovi, sun crackin rocks which a few short months ago were under four feet of snaw! Some country? Nae midgies but clegs ferocious if slow, including the fancy Episcopalian wans wi the green eyes!
My wife left today for a few days hillwalking around Fort William, I’m left on my tod with three dogs to mind. Here’s a wee picture of the three of them.
link to imgur.com
The one in the middle is ours, the big one is a guide dog puppy and is just about to start his training so we might not see him again. The blur is my sister’s dog and she’s away walking with the wife too and left me in charge.
While I was looking at these pictures I saw this one of the wife walking the West Highland way with our dog last year. Thought you might like it, wish me luck as a dogsitter lol.
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Dunno if anyone else would like to lodge a complaint with National Express Coaches like I have but here goes.
Watched their recent advert (not of choice, I was waiting to buy a ticket) and the promotion of “Daily journeys to 10 UK cities and 100’s of others.”
Problem is – ALL 10 “UK cities” are located in England. None at all in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. So, I’ve left them the message this was hardly “national” nor did it cover what you’d expect people to understand by the term “UK”. (I know, I know, I’m a true, vile sep. as one contributor here called me, giving me a virtual bear hug in the process, but you gotta play it by their rules sometimes – if only, in order to turn the yoon words back onto their yoon countenances.)
Anyhow – whatever you do – I’ll have brought it to your attention thanks to the admuirable adminning of Rev. Stu.
Some more “Danish” for you, Fred, while Cherry Wainer goes mental on the old Hammond:
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Chanced upon an old volume of Greek apothegms/proverbs, including these Delphic ones:
“The old hen is worth twenty chicks.”
“The old cat chases young mice.”
*Muses thereon*
Answers please, on a £20 note, to:
Self, “The Shambles”, 666, Main Street, Cadzow, Darkest Lanarkshire.
Thepnr,
Enough time to teach the pup the ‘fetch a cold beer from the fridge’ command!
cearc
Good idea, will get started now before they get their tea 🙂
@Ian Brotherhood
Thanks for the heads up on the Netflix documentary “The Vietnam War”. I’ve just watched the fist episode and am hooked. Will watch all weekend, I’m amazed that this program was even made.
Can anyone give me any details on planned flag display on Salisbury crags/Arthur’s seat,tomorrow?
Guys, if U remember we discussed a book, “His Bloody Project!” a while back, the author Graeme MacRae Burnet featured on an Alba prog’ during the week. The village featured in the book was based on Culduie in Wester Ross post the Clearances & the author explained how he managed to create a work of fiction read like fact. Ah still think it wiz true. Clever stuff & well worth a read!
@Fred
I bought that on your recommendation, great book and I even got my Mother in Law to read it. She kept it and I’ve yet to get it back 🙁
Morning, soffisticates:
link to youtube.com
One for Cowdenbeath marchers to dance to.
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Top pick, hackalumpoff.
Alternatively:
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Forgot to add this gem. It’s not just those pesky nats who experience BBC technical difficulties:
link to craigmurray.org.uk
Btw, hope things are all well with you, Macart.
By ra way, one must say…
Twas most excellent to hang out with you Jock Scot, Michael McCabe and lovely lady at the 1314 in Bannockburn 😉
We’ll be back for the party.
Cheers ye wingers.
Early start ra night, at HOME ra now.
Headin’ into the Big City…
Soon.
NB stay tuned Wingers.
Welsh Sion:
It seems from the M/T you are a fellow sufferer:
link to spns.org.uk
Cadzow, ya bass.
Hey Tinto, aye saw ye on recent comments.
Cadzow like… 😉
Aye once was the Duke of Hamilton (in dressage)
Aye know you know Chatelherault CP.
Aye have a linking.
Walkies like…
Not quite as erudite as your reference, Tinto … but may be of interest …
Thanks for yours.
link to amazon.co.uk