General Chat

A Walking football tournament (for the over 50s) took place in Newcastle today. Teams from far and wide took part including Teams from Edinburgh, Glasgow and would you believe it EAST KILBRIDE!!!

So EK is famous once again GlasgowLass.

The Broons........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEWtUojpbY

I didn't know about this......... I'm off to search YouTube :-D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMMA.

Thank you Robert :-)

Webcams around Scotland....

http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/webcams.htm

No idea what they're like, I just found this.

No point in my looking right now, it will be dark in Scotland :-D

omg, I just watched a daft video on Farcebook

Two crazy Scottish women (from Glasgow, I think, going by the accent).... singing away to "I'm a Single Lady".... but they changed the words to "I'm a Tenalady".

Get on FB and look for Glesga 2bob rockit

Warning.......... it's verrrry rude!

I laughed so much I almost needed a Tenalady

On my way Scozz :-D

"The Future of Lanarkshire"

a short film made in the early 60s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDugjjucSo

:-D

I left Scotland in 1963........... did this film predict the future??

FREE POINTS AT SCOTLAND'S PEOPLE

Log on, go to the purchase page... and enter "scotland" in the voucher space.

No need to buy anything.......... you'll get 20 points.

:-D :-D :-D

A wee story.........

A tough old sheep farmer from northern Scotland gave some advice to his granddaughter back at the start of the Great War in 1914. He told her that the secret to a long life was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder onto her breakfast every morning. The grand daughter followed this dictum religiously until her death at the venerable age of 109. She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, 25 great-great-grandchildren. And a forty foot hole where the crematorium used to be.

:-D

Nice one LadyS

The Free Points at Scotland's People is still on.......

You can use it only once (as I found out lol).

Just type "scotland" in the voucher space...

My Scottish claim is I am a descendant of the Jeffrey family of Roxburgh and Kelso. Some direct ancestors moved to Brydekirk then on to Glasgow.

So, I hope I can join in your thread without anyone casting aspersions on my Englishness. :-D

I tried Scozz and didn't work for me even though
I haven't had before. :-(

I wouldn't worry JoyLouise, you are welcome to join in.

I was born and raised in Lanarkshire.
In fact starting with my paternal grandmother, her paternal line of my family has been in Scotland as far back as I can trace ... circa 1600 ( probably long before that)

May come as a surprise but over the last 200yrs,I have ended up with just over 6% Scottish blood.
So forgive me for my..... Irishness!

( Last time I had 2 Scots direct ancestors that married each other was... 1815)
Every marriage in the direct line from there down to me involved a 100% Irish spouse, and the bloodline diluted Scots/Irish
Yes... even my own mother was born and raised in Ireland
LOL

Welcome JoyLouise,

Don't worry about your Englishness.
Although born and brought up in Edinburgh, I have lived in England for the
last 53 years!!!

Welcome Joy Louise. I apologise in advance for my bad jokes.

I was born in Scotland, but left when I was 12... I speak with an Aussie accent now, except when I have more than one nippy sweetie.


G.Lass.... I too have Irish blood (on Mum's side), but it goes back a few generations, Mum's side has Scottish, Irish, Spanish & Viking....... Dad's is all Scottish, except for a one set of 6xgreat-grandparents (born in Worcester about 1700).


Emma ~ sorry the free points didn't work for you..... maybe the expiry date has been & gone.... have a look at the Scotland Now website... they might do it again.

Running Man Challenge on You Tube.

Started by 2 US kids in school, picked up by 2 young Basketball players and suddenly it's viral.
How did it became a challenge?

LadyScozz, you might like watching Police Scotland take up the challenge, especially Tulliallan Training College but I laughed at Northern Territory Police, Australia.
No one has challenged them yet !

What a lovely mixed bunch we are - and why not, as variety is the spice of life. :-D

I have a Scottish 2 x great-grandmother, an Irish 2 x great-grandfather and Welsh 3 x great-grandparents. The rest of me is English as far back as the mid-1600s according to copies of land documents and wills I have.

My accent has changed three or four times in my life as I have moved around (once to Oz). I am not good at any other accents but my children are brilliant at accents - they listen, they speak. I don't half wish I had that skill. :-D

Lady Scozz, thanks for the tip about Scotland's People. I'll give it a go.

Robert, I know you live near my neck of the woods as does GP.

There's a ghost at Silverburn Shopping Centre and it's "terrifying" shoppers.

To be honest, I would be more surprised if I found a space in the car park. !

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