Pee Ess

Thinking of the whining Weegie Speaker (a metal sheet worker when he was in his day job) - who now loves the lace stockings (!) and silver buckled patent leather shoes of his office - my mum would have said "put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to hell". How true ....

Meg

A bit of Hamden turf - but I am saying nothing .......

Meg

Penny

Dont you worry though that the whole grubby lot say that these overclaimed expenses were an "accounting error" - but these are people we trust with running the country with enormous budgets!!!!

Meg

If I remember correctly, the bus tickets were printed by the GNP Company - Glasgow Numerical Printing Company I think - and I believe my Aunt Lizzie worked there in the late 1920's. She died of TB in the Glen Afton Sanitorium.

Meg

The political shambles in Britain right now is probably the tip of the iceberg, noses in the trough for life! I's disgusting :evil: Yet another disaster that can be laid at Thatcher's door - she changed the way MPs claimed expenses to "make up" for what was considered a poor salary being ...

Morag,

I believe the lady pulled from the river died the next day in hospital. So sad isn't it.

Meg

Stories like that make me soooooooo angry Jim - I have a friend who (as a TA call up) was in Iraq and did two tours. Geoff Hoon (they called him Buff Hoon!) kept going on British TV and saying that the necessary equipment needed by our troops had been delivered to the war "arena" - but sti...

Robert wrote:Meg, that lovely poem was read at the Queen Mothers funeral.

Hi Robert - yes, I know it was said in the Anglified version at the Queen Mum's funeral - I said the "Scots" version at my brothers.

M

This one is lovely too - I have heard it said in Scots and as it is below - depends on who's listening I suppose. Memories - For a Scottish Funeral Anon You can shed tears that he is gone or you can smile because he has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that he’ll come back or you can open you...

Joe and Sadie Howie (nee McIntyre) from Ardrossan here saying hello for the first time. We went to Eglington School! Joe - expelled in 1959!!!! :wink: Married in Ardrossan in 1964, and still living in bliss! :wink: We have 3 kids - Derek, Mandy and Mhairi and 6 grandkids - Martin, Jason, Sarah-Jane...

Yes Meg in the 1950's at New Year I opened the outside door to hear all the horns from Ardrossan at 12 o clock. I remember that well Ellen - you could hear the Shell Mex horn, any boats in the harbour and the fog horn all went at midnight. You really felt that the New Year had arrived, rather than ...