scot47

A Levantine flavour here now. "Doon the Watter" is becoming chic.

Shard

What's Doon the Water?

scot47

The populace of Greater Glasgow used to spend their holidays on the Clyde Coast and on the Clyde Islens (Bute, Arran and Cumbrae). Travelling down the water iis in the Glaswegian demotic tongue "Gaun doon the watter". Hence "Doon the Watter" has come to mean having a proletarian holiday in the Clyde Estuary.

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2...tter-1-3579774

Join me and I will let you buy me an icecream !

scot47

My days of travelling may becoming to an end. Yesterday I set off for Inverness but had to cancel my trip and come home. A whole list of medical woes, aches and pains. Ochone, ochone !

Pulaski

Sorry to hear that.

My mother's horizons have reduced dramatically in recent years, and a week in Devon this month was a big adventure for her, As a young woman she travelled to Kenya and Nigeria, and travelled to Europe frequently, including leading many school trips to the Netherlands and Italy, always overland. Then she used to visit us in the US most years from 2002 to 2012, but a heart attack in 2013 ended her desire to spend 8 hours on a plane.

scot47

Pulaski, your mater and I are probably distant cousins. What a thought !

Pulaski

If you go back 600 or so years, pretty much everyone who's family roots are British is related. Go back 1000 years and the British are just one big family.

I think her family are mostly Yorkshire, her maiden name is a good Yorkshire name, and family mythology says there was some German blood introduced on her father's side, probably in the Victorian era. So we assume that is why my mother and sister are 5'11' and I am 6'5".

scot47

As for my travels cutting down and doing more day trips. I refuse to spend my declining years watching that nonsense on the Idiot Box ("The Gowks' Kist" as our great national poet called it)

scot47

To Ayr on Saturday 6 Jul;y to join in the Indy March.
"Auld Ayr, wham neer a toon surpasses fur honest men and bonnie lasses"
Headed to foreign parts in August - Plymouth in England.

philat98

This woman has made her home in Arran. I dont see why they have to kick her out.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...man-community/

scot47

The Home Office do not like foreigners. Currently they are having purges. There is a petition circulating from 38 degrees on this case. I am not a great believe in petitions. i did sign this one.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio...s-visa-refusal

Lion in Winter

Wtf? Also signing...

Edit - can't sign, my postcode is also foreign.

scot47

Come Independence we will be in the EU and we will have our own immigration policy !

scot47

Just spent a long weekend in the cultural wonder that is Glasgow. They have PICTURE-HOUSES and RESTAURANTS ! Decadence !

scot47

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00...cIkJT8AAeYBCPA

Our Syrians.