General Chat

Where is everybody?

:-(

I don't mean where you live........... I'm wondering why there are so few posts.

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Lady Scozz

Does the phrase on your avatar mean the same as the Scottish Gaelic "Pog ma thom"?

Hi Potty

Yes it does :-D

I'm Scottish born, but I have a teaspoon of Irish blood.... my grandfather's great-grandmother (something like that, I'll have to check my tree!)

I'm getting in a wee bit early for St Paddy's day.



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Uilleann pipes or Bagpipes? Neither an easy instrument to learn.

On the subject of St Paddy's day..........

I wanted to rearrange the table & chairs on the back deck, ready for the 17th

My good Irish friend came and helped me. Nice fella, name of Paddy O'Furniture.



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Dermot - as far as I got was learning to plat the chanter at a local youth club in the local miners institute but I was never allowed to practice playing it at home - I wonder why :-(
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It is good that children in some schools in Scotland are still being taught to play the pipes with a fair number of girls being involved.

I was googling for info on some of my Lang Deid Yins and found this site:

http://digital.nls.uk/directories/index.html

The Scottish Post Office Directories

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I've just spent an interesting AND frustrating 30 minutes looking at the pages and pages and pages of NOT MY RELLIES! lol Some of the advertisements are interesting....... funny nowadays.

If you can work out how to find people, PLEASE let me know!

BIG HELP......... you can only put the FIRST THREE LETTERS of a surname... and the name of a town........... then do what I did..... get completely lost.

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Five tower blocks in Glasgow are to be blown up as part of the "Spectacular" opening ceremony.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/glasgow-2014-opening-ceremony-feature-3343392

I'm not sure about this?
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Re Irn Bru
The colouring is also responsible for ruining many a carpet!
The stain never comes out.... as I know, only too well!

GlasgowLass <3 it will certainly change the skyline in the north east of Glasgow.

I remember them from when I worked on Iona, we used to monitor/do follow ups on quite a few wayward kids who lived in them who had attended the youth camps on Iona.

Your post brings back many memories - not least the song "ye cannae fling a jammy piece oot a twenty storey flat" :-D :-D :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8HtzXZiUg

Hi OFITG
The Jeely Piece song was written about high rise flats in Castlemilk but this area in the southside also looks entirely different now.
Some tenements were demolished and rebuilt whilst others were renovated.

The City of Glasgow planners, and those of other major cities, that rushed to build new housing schemes in the 1950's and 1960's to rehouse people from the slum clearances and also to provide housing to cope with rapid increases in population, no matter how good their intentions, have a lot to answer for.

The promises of what the new schemes they built would offer were soon to be shattered, due to a combination of factors such as, people moving away from their extended family & their friends, lack of social facilities, and also that the employment that had been promised in these areas failed to come to fruition.

Many of these new schemes did not develop into, self sufficient communities, where individuals could, for a better phrase, live, work, and play, in or near the area they resided. Instead people had no option but to travel into the city on a daily or regular basis, as they could no longer just take a short walk or bus ride to their work, shops, dentist, doctor, bingo, or pub.

By the time city planners realised, that the level of services and facilities that had been provided, were totally inadequate to meet the needs of the number of people in these new schemes, it was the old story of, too little too late, as the rot had started to set in, alas numerous attempts to halt the rot often failed.

In the late 60's and early 70's, through my work in several of the Glasgow schemes, mainly Easterhouse and Castlemilk, I witnessed the problems caused, by the decline and vandalism, something which continued for many years.

This was not unique to Glasgow, it also happened in Edinburgh and Dundee to name but two, and also in many other areas of the United Kingdom.

To this day local and central government have not learned that you cannot demolish entire communities, build overspill schemes, dump people in them, and hope that a new community will just grow and thrive.

The demolition of the Red Road tower blocks has been dropped from the opening ceremony!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27009806

I'm glad!

Anne - pleased to hear that, common sense has prevailed, somehow it did not seem an appropriate thing to do as part of the games celebrations :-S

Dear All

Hello


I hope you have a peaceful and contented Easter and Spring brings
renewed hope.


Peace be with you, in your homes and with your families always.


Have a safe journey if travelling.


Take gentle care
With good wishes
Elizabeth,
xx

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-22196033

waaaaah!

I loved watching Sir Christopher of the Bike :-D

Thanks Elizabeth,

I totally agree with all you say.

Thank you.

I will not air my views about wars on this thread, that said, I was pleased to read that a statue of a Black Watch soldier is to be unveiled in Belgium to mark the centenary of World War One.

The statue, which was made in Scotland and shipped to Belgium last month, depicts a Black Watch sergeant in a World War One fighting uniform of kilt, jacket and bonnet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-27260757

Over the years, several members of my family served with The Black Watch and I think this is a fitting tribute to the men of a proud and famous regiment, it is probably the oldest Highland regiment, first fighting as part of the British Army in 1745 in Flanders, since then the Black Watch has been engaged in conflicts from fighting the French in North America, to fighting in the American War of Independence, to fighting in Egypt, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimea, the Indian mutiny, both World Wars, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The Black Watch, which is now part of The Royal Regiment of Scotland, is the UK's most decorated regiment, it has a proud history that can be traced back nearly 300 years.

My head is spinning!

My husband's nephew and his partner recently became parents. Nephew's father wanted some information to add to his family tree.

I knew her father was interested in genealogy, but didn't know until recently that her grandfather and great-grandfather also had done research ~ the old-fashioned way, before computers, of looking for old documents and visiting museums & cemeteries.

I received a HUGE file from them (we knew there was a possible connection going back a long (very) way.

I had vague dates & names with lots of question marks next to them.

I've spent the last few days adding some (very little) of the report to my tree.

I knew I may be descended from the Stewarts, and now I know.... Princess Margaret (daughter of James Stewart II ) is my 16th great grandmother! She didn't marry William Crichton but had at least two children, I'm descended from their daughter Margaret who married George Leslie.

Go back a few generations.......... Robert the Bruce is my 22nd great-grandfather!

And........ Queen Elizabeth is my 16th cousin twice removed!

This all sounds like the guff you get when you pay a dubious genealogy company to find your connections.



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Hi LadyScozz,

Seeing as you are related to so much Royalty, will we have to ask your permission to speak to you?