LIkewise, I thought the North Shore coal came from places on the sea bed where seams had become exposed.
We survived the Thatcher Years on exploding coal.
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- Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:58 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Ardrossan coal to India, 1851
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2245
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Three Towns Haiku
- Replies: 69
- Views: 11526
Re: Three Towns Haiku
mum's special tree grown
from seed - new tenant, sharp saw -
live memories killed.
from seed - new tenant, sharp saw -
live memories killed.
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:46 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Temperatures in Ayrshire tonight
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3511
Re: Temperatures in Ayrshire tonight
The Breckenridges were great neighbours! I never got to say goodbye or go to a funeral for any of them because I was in college in Stirlingshire. It was just one more bad news letter after another from my mother when they started falling away one by one very quickly. Salt of the Earth!
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:03 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Temperatures in Ayrshire tonight
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3511
Re: Temperatures in Ayrshire tonight
Were you still in Clyde Terrace during the dreadful winter of 1982, Meg? I remember someone saying one morning that a temperature of -26C was recorded the previous night although it didn't get quite so low in Ardrossan. We lived for three months in one bedroom of the house (the one with the fireplac...
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:43 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: The Galloway Burn
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3824
Re: The Galloway Burn
Thankfully it didn't pass through the grounds of St Peter's School (it was hard enough keeping the pupils out of the puddles), but next one along, the grounds of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
BTW, anyone know if that church has a Rood Screen?
BTW, anyone know if that church has a Rood Screen?
- Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: The Galloway Burn
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3824
Re: The Galloway Burn
How about crawling backwards down the concrete pipe from its manhole (near the farm-road-with-no-name) till its exit at the Stanley Burn beside the houses at Lawson Drive.morag wrote:I doubt there could be much scarier than the Mill dam tunnels in Stevenston! creepy and woohoo!
Children are mental.
- Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:23 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Chapelhill, Ardrossan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3335
Re: Chapelhill, Ardrossan
I have a feeling that the name 'Chapelhill' pre-dates Irish migratory labour in modern Scotland - a quick glance at an eighteenth century map would clear that up. My own hunch is that the place was probably called "Cnoc Chapaill' or similar in Gaelic times, meaning Horsehill. The 'ch' would hav...
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:54 am
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: The Stone of Destiny
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1104
Re: The Stone of Destiny
That's if it hadn't already been hustled away before Longshanks got his grubby paws on it. I'm still going with the theory that he kidnapped a cludgie seat made from local sandstone and that the real Stone (made of volcanic rock?) is Who-Knows-Where.
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:21 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Red pudding
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3511
Re: Red pudding
Recipes? No. But if the admins ever open a forum for assisted suicide, thon's yer man!
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:24 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Red pudding
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3511
Re: Red pudding
A wee clue for the sleuth.
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- Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:22 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Red pudding
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3511
Re: Red pudding
Looks like your paper did a straight lift from Wikipedia.
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- Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:02 pm
- Forum: McBlether's Lounge
- Topic: Red pudding
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3511
Re: Red pudding
Nor me, and I was an Olympic standard deep fried black pudding eater 1985 - 1989. The spicy taste of the battered unseen, crisply munched on a freezing night's walk home from the Palazzo!