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by Wildfowler Lounge
Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:58 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Ardrossan coal to India, 1851
Replies: 7
Views: 2245

Re: Ardrossan coal to India, 1851

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.
by Wildfowler Lounge
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.
by Wildfowler Lounge
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!
by Wildfowler Lounge
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...
by Wildfowler Lounge
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?
by Wildfowler Lounge
Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:45 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: The Galloway Burn
Replies: 11
Views: 3824

Re: The Galloway Burn

morag wrote:I doubt there could be much scarier than the Mill dam tunnels in Stevenston! creepy and woohoo!
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. :D

Children are mental.
by Wildfowler Lounge
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...
by Wildfowler Lounge
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.
by Wildfowler Lounge
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!
by Wildfowler Lounge
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.

http://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index ... try1969372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by Wildfowler Lounge
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pudding" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by Wildfowler Lounge
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!