Scarlet Pimple

Wanderer--keep smiling. You must be visiting relatives . I am surprised that you actually made it into the U.K. in view of the terrible weather you have been experiencing over there. Not a flake of snow here in Vancouver region. The Eastern ares of Canad a have vbeen battered by huge snow storms and horizontal , powerful winds. Flooding is huge! Dismal rainy, but not overly cold, conditionsin Vancouver. Typical overcast, wet Winter conditions. We are holding our breath waiting for the coming dump. Want to wish everbody a wonderful New Year.I articular a big thanks to Scotty and Caley D for keeping this wonderful site going strong and vibrant. Long may it continue.

Crown Jaggie--reviewed their site. they want $65 Can to purchase for a year's sub. I am already paying $160 pr month for telephone, T.V. and Internet through Shaw Cable and are trying to find a way to reduce this monthly outlay so, being on a pension, this would not be an option. Also, I note their testimonials are from 2005. Many thanks! Ronny C--I am now listening to the commentary. I did not even check the BBC website thinking it was not on. Commentary coming through loud and clear.Thank you very muuch--appreciated! Have a great New Year.

Thanks Crown Jaggie ..no harm intrying ! Report will follow on success or otherwise. Smile.

No cxommentary for uisoverseas again. What is it with the BBC/ Paranoid? Wanderer --where are you ?

Thne sting in the tale (oops...tail). :biggrin:

Doing Donuts in cars are fine so long as you donut end up in the ditch.Dents yer dapper image and it will make you look like a ding=aling and your Dolly wouldn't like you at the dance. If you DO, then, simply, put you are a NUT. And you are all " Dears" so dally off tae the Deli for a delicious sandwich and let's end all the drollery of this demented thread. Right dress.ads.

Rivetting stuff! Positively unbelievable. You will shortly receive a message, IHE, telling you that that the S. P. Canajin boy will make you a friend. Sigh.. He's so beautiful.......

I agree.It's great. The Olympics did generate a great upliftment in mood and spirit here in Canada during the few weeks they were on but the cost has been very high. Still, there is a legacy--the new infrastructure left behind. e.g. the new huge ice rink built in Richmond (a suburb of Vancouver where most of the Chinese Immigrants appear to now live) which caters to all kinds of ice sport . It only cost 30 million dollarsto build. or was it more? And the magnificent Sea to Sky Highway which was changed from a dangerous twisty, twiny road, subject to unexpected rock falls from the cliffs beside it, into a great scenic multi-lane highway, being the road from Vancouver up to Whistler. It is interesting to note, however, that last year we took a drive up to Whistler just to see what the engineers had accomnplished and I only saw one slow-moving vehicle with a foreign number plate on it, all the way up the 80 k route. Nice views though of Howe Sound and the West Coast Mountains.

Because, Caley D, I would venture to suggest that the loud lad was also singing....."Donut forsake me, oh my darling." And the cringing lad below got the wrong impression.

The variety theatre at the lower end of Academy Street.The joke from the labouring comedian on the stage that tickled me pink and made me laugh out loud when everybody else was still thinking about it...and.. the approving and grateful look from the comedian who saw a kindred spirit and a ray of hope emerging. The Three Stooges and Clancy of the Mounted at the matinees on a Satudrday morning at the La Scala. Little did I know that I would meet Clancy one day and he would smile at my sweetly--and give me a speeding ticket and a $340 fine. Streuth. Getting on the bus for a penny and into the Caley Park at Telford Street for 6 pence. Spartacus at the Playhouse before it burned down. Ah wuz goggle-eyed ! Examining King Duncan's well closely one afternoon beside Spring Cottage in Culcabock when I was probably 3 or four then running up the back garden in my Grandmothers house to jump on the wire fence and stand there looking at Raigmnore hospital wondering what the big building was and what it was all about. Did a lot of wandering and wondering in these days The four or five beautiful Clydesdale horses in the photograph that I have of my Grandfather and one of my uncles and the other "hands" at The Dell of Inshes farm East of Culcabock where he was the farm manager. Roderick MacBean , grandfather, died before I was born. Rolling Easter eggs down a sloping farmer's field up the Leachkin with my sister (3 years older than me) and my mother, again at a very young age, and gazing at the cows in the field below wondering what strange creatures they were. And enjoying the sunny day! The cycle rides up to the Boar Stone. Corny? Maybe. But, as you grow older, such memories become fonder.It's not always action that inspires you but the things that become imprinted deeply in your memory. Remember that scene at the end of the film "The Gladiator" where the dying Russell Crowe is thinking about his dead wife and child running through the cornfield--that's what I am talking about..... Cheers friends. Have a great Christmas.

I fact I feel as if I am in dreamland and watching the best team in the land.

The Hearts manager on the BBC commentary after the ganme was slight in his praise for ICT. He remembered to say something, at the end of his lauding of his own team as the best thing since sliced bread.Then he said that ICT were lucky to get a point, that Hearts were the best team and ..blah blah. Seems odd that they didn't win then isn't it? There are two teams on the park and if one does not win and it is a draw how can the team that mostly attacked, and which played well enough, be the best team when the team that mostly defended, and played a BLINDER in that role, is not viewed the best team? I mean, are there not two roles in the game--to attack and to defend. Is is that attacking is so much more cool than defending. It sure sounds like it. Personally speaking, it sounded as if the draw was a fair result. And great praise must be heaped on the team in the SPL who has never lost an away game in all of 2010.INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE. --The best team in he SPL on THAT record.

Good lord! These fellas were born before the Pimple. How can anybody remember any one of them. :biggrin: Charlie My father had his business.."The Northern Tyre Service" on Shore Street--do you remember it or him by any chance? There was a wee house next door which was attached to the business property and he allowed a dear old lady, named Mrs Chisholm, to stay there. She formerly lived in Nairn, at a house which was much favoured by me in the Summer, due to the proximity to the beach and the Shows....you know, the Herchers. I am scared to make any comment about the photo in case someone remembers me; although I think that Charlie Chaplin, before he got smaller, is a more appropriate descriptiont than Hitler.

I could notget the emileys to come up either earlier but found out that you have to get fierce and double click. If not try two(successive) clicks.

What a game. Thanks to Wanderer I was able to hear the last 20-25 minures of the game.!!! Wanderer, old chap, my link to the BBC live broadcasr was blocked from Canada.I suppopse Scotty will be in the same boat. How did you get the broadcast? What a great game by the sound of it! Where will this season end up for this team? Whew! my palms broke out in a sweat in the last 3 minutes .

Nice thought I.H.E.--spoken like a trooper.

No sportsound? No match I assume? Can anybody tell us overseas what is going on please?

The other articles that are accessed by links on the right of the same page are fascinating. Scots were the founders of Argentinian football is a good read and an astonishing eye-opener. That fellow sure can write well--so many factoids, so many......

Put it to bed, ICT, very early and then play an exhibition of lovely football .Ease off at 5-0 so as not to be too harsh on the visitors...eh?

Another great report from Ginger Jaggy. All the previews are awesome --see how modern I am these days in the speech department...like. Och, Mannnie, yer so cautious the Caley will melt these maroon yins. Cheers, all Have a wondeful match the morrow and a very happy Christmas, And Manfer, hope you are looking after the duckies or have they flown to a warmer clime? The Canadian geese fly about 2000 miles to migrate. Scarlet

Somebody just blogged that East Fife would be a good place to send some of our youngsters for development. Well....? Not a bad idea since they would come back to Caley thistle and be very glad that they are back in a very nice area --Methil was not exactly all coalpits but was not exactly a luxury place to stay--few amenities,few shops, the odd park where you could go practice your golf swing, Bowling Green Street bowling turf ..mostly with older codgers so ?, and East Fife whom, we all know from their website, had a very illustrious past history. Good luck to John Robertson --I always keep an eye out for their progress.. Who knows we may see them in the SPL yet?

Caley D--Och! :biggrin:

Another argument for introducing video camers with instant replay so that , as in ice hockey in North America, the ref has an immediate opportunity to seek a decision for or against from a panel of judges (2-3 maybe)reviewing the videoand once they say yeah or no the that's the end of it. Long overdue IMHO.

Why was Scotty born so clever? Why is radar the same when spelt backwards. Ditto for rotor. Wise man speaks to you in a normal full frontal, patronising kind of a way --- Wise Guys narrow their eyes and spit it out from the sides of their mouth in a laconic style designed to warn or deflate.