Best wishes on your birthday PT. Your knowlegeable contributions to the threetowners website are greatly appreciated.
J.

On recent visits to Scotland i've noticed now that all restaurants and eateries are automatically charging 10% service charge - or compulsory tipping included - if we want - From one pound upwards, to be added onto our card payment via pos. I have always left cash tips in restaurants, for as much as...

Speaking to my upstairs neighbour in Saltcoats, she's 87, when she left school she went to Kilmarnock college to learn carpet making at Blackwood and Mortons. She worked five years there then she married and had to leave as at that time married women were not allowed to work in factories. I told her...

Many Happy Returns Meg.
Hope you had a nice Birthday. Jx.

6 for me today.

Just back from a week in Saltcoats, visited the Titanic exhibition in the SEC, Glasgow, after taking the train from Glasgow Central. Such an efficiente service. It was really interesting and sad, so many lives lost in icey waters, with the first lifeboats being lowered while half empty. Because one ...

Another month has passed and my cough has'nt returned. The cognac
has cured me.
No more cough bottles for me!.

3 for me.
Nice game Hughie.

At the end of August we went to Fort William and stopped at Glencoe to show the grandchildren some Scottish history. We parked in the Three Sisters car park which was absolutely full of tourists from all over the world. We also went to see the Glenfinnan Bridge and waited to see the train passing ov...

Once again the Waterside Inn at Seamill is being remodernised to become a fully functioning sea spa at a cost of 3 million pounds. Work will start in 2025.

Meg, I read today that the song 'A summer place' by Percy Faith was the best selling song of the 60's, staying in the charts for 9 months, equaled only by 'Hey Jude' in 1968.