General Chat

Anyone going to the Tattoo? 2015, not 2016 :-)

:-)

Robert they were advertising the tickets
for sale for seeing in 2016 in Edinburgh :-0

With the approach of the Edinburgh Festival and the Tattoo just having thoughts about Scotland.

Scozz, everything in moderation ;-) :-D

Your mudfest looks like a summers day here ;-) :-D

The music festival I mentioned earlier......... has turned into a MudFest!

Some pics:

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/07/26/12/57/rain-turns-splendour-in-the-grass-into-giant-mud-pit-and-the-punters-love-it

found it, thankyou :-)

and it led me to this........

http://www.food.com/topic/scottish?pn=3

some nice ones, but lots look like "heart attack on a plate"

:-0

Scozz, Google ...recipe for macaroon bars and
up it pops :-D :-D

Yes you can still get Lee's Macaroon bars Scozz.

I also had that recipe but can't find it....sorry :-)

There is a recipe somewhere for macaroons made with mashed potato
and icing sugar.

I'll try and find it.

lol Emma....... can you still get Lee's Macaroon bars?

My Mum had a recipe for something similar, made with.... would you believe..... mashed potato.......... does anyone have this strange recipe?

:-)

There's a music festival going on this weekend, in fields just north of us. It rained a lot last week, we were joking about the MudFest, but they've been lucky with the weather; a short sprinkle on Friday evening, fine Saturday, and Sunday we've been promised sunny & 21C.

We're on the south side of town, friends who live north say the music is so loud it makes their windows rattle. :-( It's not a big town, population is less than 5,000.

I had forgotten about this thread too.
Thank you for reminding us LadyScozz.

The weather here is weird? Very warm days followed by rainy ones.
At this very moment, there is bright sunshine but, the sky is black!

I was down south last weekend for a wedding, and it was really hot and sunny, yet here it was cool and stormy.

You needing a lodger Scozz, am willing to take Scottish
goodies over with me :-D

Emma......... better weather here, and it's winter! :-D 20C today.

But........ it's been snowing in Queensland!

A cold snap is expected to hit us early next week. That's the Aussie version of a cold snap, not the European :-)

Shame on me I had forgotten about this thread :-0 :-(

Sunshine and showers here in Aberdeen this morning.
It hasn't been much of a summer so far, this time last
year we had temp of 28c according to the weather man,
don't think we have been higher than16c this month.

Had a lovely holiday on the Isle of Sky many years ago.

Too old/lazy now to travel anymore!

Thank you LadyScozz for reviving this thread.

I thought we had lost it for ever.

Six months since the last post........ took me ages to find this thread.

I'll be looking out for this year's Edinburgh tattoo when it eventually gets to Oz TV.

My NZ cousin's daughter & her partner are participating this year, playing bagpipes & drums! :-D


and nudging the thread up, don't want it to get lost again

I have been (half way) up Cairngorm- a wonderful experience, but skiing no not for me.

Watch a prop monday nights about the Cairngorms ..& there is a piper works all over the country .he was at a posh hotel in scotland .he piped the Haggis i in the dining room ..[ showed it being made before uckk ] .he said the gamekeeper managed to catch it before the event :-D :-D The men on the mountains work so hard to get them ready for the skiers .up at 4am some of them .but they love it & are happy when the people are on the mountains & enjoying themselves .any one been up there ? skiing . :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-D no me :-) Barbra

I didn't know you could buy Haggis in a Can! :-0

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&x=0&ref_=nb_ss_gw&y=0&field-keywords=haggis&url=search-alias%3Daps

It sounds disgusting......... but not as disgusting as some of the other things available.

Look on the left of the page (on the link above) for "meat in a can" and look for the can of Sweet Sue chicken.

barfbarfbarf........... or as we used to say boak boak boak :-(