Allan's comments
(member since Jan 29, 2008)
Allan's comments from the Good Readers of Scotland group.
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Barbarossa wrote: "Flashbacks to reading the newspaper wrapping of fish and chips in Girvan and drinking Vimto.Was he in the Record?"
Yes, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail. Those strips were classics and very funny.
It could be but, for obvious copyright reasons, I couldn't possibly confirm it. ;-)
All good stuff if you're a Wegie but kind of alienates the Gaelic-speaking teuchters or those wi' the Doric or Scots, who would probably contend that they were the truer Scots.Of course, the gentlefolk from Morningside widne unnerstawn any o'them!
If you like scenery, then Skye is a 'must-see" if you're here in Scotland. Here's my pics of Scotland - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aogg/collec... to give you a taster of the country.If it's culture you seek, then I suppose Edinburgh and Glasgow are the places to see but I prefer Glasgow myself.
I'm currently reading Scar Night by Alan Campbell.Thoroughly well recommended for sci-fi/fantasy fans.
St. Abb's Head has some great cliffs where you can sit right at the edge and watch the gulls wheeling below. I took some pics there a year or so ago - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aogg/sets/7...
The sgian dubh literally means Black Knife as most of these dirks were black in colour. They tend to be fairly flat handled and easily slip into the top of your sock. I remember mine being quite small but with a polished deer bone handle so it was quite light in colour.
I used to wear a kilt and sporran many years ago, while I was a member of the Scouts. We even wore a Sgian Dubh in our sock. Not sure if that would be allowed these days though.I thought it was great at the time and it was very comfortable.
Scottish Gaelic is by no means dead. The company I work for actively promotes it by translating all of our web sites into Gaelic and we're currently working on a Gaelic version of OpenOffice.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Ga...
Not sure about the Highlander/Lowlander thing but Highlanders are so called because they lived in what we call the Highlands, which includes the hilly bits and is North and West of the Highland Boundary Fault. The lowlands is usually referring to the Borders and Central Region counties, which aren't so hilly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Hi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Lo...
I'm afraid I only read one book at a time these days and I was never a fast reader. I'm currently reading The Seagull Drovers by Steve Cockayne.It's the last in a trilogy called Legends of the Land and it's not a bad read.
Hi, I'm Allan from Glasgow. I'm pretty much a chain reader, ploughing myself through mostly science-fiction and fantasy with the odd horror or best-seller dropped in now and then.I've been sticking book reviews up on my blog for a few years now - http://thejumbledbox.blogspot.com
Other interest include hill-walking, photography, movies, technology...I could go on and on.
