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Nice wee win 1-0 vs Clach. Quite a record to break - and all the ICTFC youth playing

We haven't seen anything of his on his forecasting site for a while now - I hope that he is well and there's nothing wrong with him ? ? ?

Judging by his Facebook, and the chat I had with Gringo Jr yesterday, he is fine and just having a well deserved break on the south coast ?

As Scotty says he is on a deserved holiday

I think a lot of us were wondering about his wellbeing, just goes to show how his input is taken for granted. Hopefully he will be back hale and hearty on line soon.

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Been incredibly busy and internet poor the last few days. I’ll have to download it to pass a 2.5 hour Minch crossing tomorrow after having to miss the Pars. I’m sure Moff’s soothing tones will help keep my CalMac Lasagne down.

Must be a good pension ??

I remember two of the news agencies mentioned, with crystal clarity: Ward's (of Eastgate) and Bowes (on Young Street). They were (for a number of years) owned by my grandfather, F Gordon Harper, who was - at one time - a Baillie on the Inverness town council. As, indeed, was his older son, Frank Harper who famously won the MC in 1956 for bravery during the Mau Mau Campaign in Kenya. My mother was Gordon Harper's daughter, and we lived in Surrey in the south of England, due to my father's job. But every year, we came north to Inverness to see our grandparents - Gordon & Ina - who lived in a house called 'Maybank' at no. 20 Island Bank Road. When my grandfather died in April 1965, my grandmother Ina sold Ward's, but kept Bowes, which went from strength to strength under her stewardship, doing far better than it had even when my grandfather was alive, surprising us all. I guess we'd somewhat underestimated my silver-haired gran! As I got older, my uncle, Frank, would take me out on early-morning newspaper delivery runs whilst I was up on holiday in Inverness. This involved getting up at something like 4:00 am to get washed, dressed and breakfasted before going to the warehouse to pick up the newspapers. Then, it was off to Bowes for twenty minutes of frantic sorting and bundling, before the papers were loaded into the back of the Bowes small grey mini-van, and we departed on the first of two delivery routes, which saw newspapers on the customers' doorsteps in time for breakfast. Delivery consisted of Frank slowing down to a walking pace, handing me the newspapers for a particular house, and grinning mischievously, as he would warn me about the particularly aggressive dog which guarded this particular customer's house ... I spent a lot of the delivery routes at high adrenaline levels. For the record, not a single dog ever attacked or even menaced me - indeed, I never so much as saw even one dog in all the deliveries I ever made. ? From the time from when I was age of 16 to when I was 20, we didn't see much of Inverness, due to my father securing post-retirement jobs first in Africa, and then in the newly-independent Bangladesh. But we returned to the UK in 1976, and selling the house in England, and moving to Inverness - to a house on Island Bank Road, just 200 yards down the street from my grandmother who still lived in Maybank. By this stage, Frank had moved down to Livingston, but I would now spend university holidays helping out in Bowes, behind the counter. But after graduation, I moved to California, and in 1979, my grandmother sold Bowes (and Maybank), and moved in with my parents, before she passed away in January 1980. I visited Inverness for a week again in 1982, but it wasn't the same for me anymore, and a year later, my parents sold their house on Island Bank Road and moved to Australia. I was back in Scotland in 1988, but never again visited Inverness until 1998, when I brought my wife to the UK to see the some of places where I'd grown up, which had been particularly important to me. In 2005, I brought my daughter to Inverness, but Bowes was no longer there. I never did learn what happened to Bowes: did it fail? Was it again bought out, this time for its location and then turned into the Mexican bar & restaurant ('Mambo' ... ?) which (I think) now occupies the same premises? Although Inverness has changed, all places do and it still appears to thrive. I miss the old Inverness, nonetheless. But then, we all miss our childhoods.

Great third podcast. Nice variety of topics. Wheres your youth of the week spot to keep us in touch with the lads at fort. Surprised you used a pen and paper and didnt just use the prediction league to record your predictions? Would have been more noticeable and doubled the competition entries and tracked the football savant across the year. ?

And often fans go to a game with studied boredom in their sights but know that one or two great pieces of skill, or a great goal, will have their emotions stirring so hard that the "Ooh what a great game " factor seems to overwhelm them and thus they go to the next game ,,etc. Especially when there is nothing else for them to do on a Saturday afternoon except listen to the wife bawling.."Henry, the lawn badly needs cutting, cherub".

Have to say I agree. Still haven't seen the game as I was over in Eigg till last night. Was at the Russia game though, and although McGinn started reasonably well, Ryan made a great impact when he came on. He was a revelation in the Israel game at home too. It was exciting watching ICT when he broke through. It's easy to be biased about one of our own (e.g. Tam Cowan says Turnbull is better) but when you look at the likes of Ryan Fraser making a job of it, I can see him playing in the Premiership in a year or two.

Thestevekelly always brings a smile to my face, good to hear his 'art ' used in the pods...nice touch.

Only our lovely host went to the Academy. Of the other three of us, two went to Millburn and one to Culloden. And Red Card Riley from Ep 2 went to borstal. Thanks for the kind words, btw.