Scarlet Pimple

Kingsmills I think you are right since my memories are similar about the variety being greater at Nairn. However I still went to the Bught. Shows are shows. Reminds me also of the enjoyment I had at going to Bertram Mills Circus at the Bught and being impressed by the size of the tent. :002:

Charles Thanks for your allegedly somewhat lengthy post. Frankly I didn't really notice that because I enjoyed the detail and the accuracy etc. and since I am over the hill (metaphorically-speaking that is) and far away I am pleased that you spend your valuable time keeping things up to date for people like us. :clapping04:

Well he may be old, cheps, but he still has a twinkle in his toes and also in his periwinkle. The reference to gay to which you allude is far from what you lot might aver--i.e perhaps someone with energy and charm but carried off with aplomb--D'Artagnan of the 3 musketeers springs to mind. Or Erroll Flynn in his young day;well, that was long before he visited the "Only" fish and chip shop in downtown Vancouver and then went off to sleep with his 16 year old gal pal. Must have exhausted the poor lad 'cos he died that night . The word blade was inserted 'cos in sheffield they make plenty of them for shaving faces the old-fashioned way. Swords too I believe. Gawd this is tortuous--so we move naturally to anything else that will rhyme with that, such as Gaylord.....you lads really will have to try harder in the interpretation class of 2006. :015: Thank you Scotty for explaining the situation to this old lad who can even remember cut-throat razors at Scotty the Barber's shop in Greig Street. Fascinating stuff..... :sleep01:

C'mon, Italian Joe..where are you mate? No gripping updates yet?Ha! :011:

Stuns me why such an issue should come up at this late stage. Surely all the players knew what financial obligations were involved at the outset re Agent's fees etc. ? Unless the Agent is now trying to turn the screw against a comitment already made? Sigh, life gets tejious........eh? :sleep01:

C,mon--is this game now about young 23 year-old lads with pointy hairdos hiding their big heads or is it about seasoned pros who have proven their worth, e.g. D. Dods, who deserve attention? Point is that paying too high wages to Rankin if he is the one causing the problem may be very dangerous and I am a little nervous of what will happen to all of them when and if they go "out of contract" either next year or 2008 and leave on a freebie with little or no financial accrual to ICT. :016: :016: Just let's hope Dargo does not go off the boil though....

Turf him if he is to blame. No need for swell heads at ICT. :012:

ICT is a teamwork team so any new face will soon understand that it's one for all and all for one. i.e. he has support and therefore , if he is in the first team as a regular, is there any doubt that he will improve continually? Rhetorical question! The fee is not THAT much taking into account that CC needs to spend to strengthen and I agree that the Hart, Morgan, Rankin, Black array looks awfully attractive on paper. CC deserves all the support we can give him--- for a somewhat reluctant Manager at the outset he is actually doing great so far. Brewster?--huh! Fetai was a prima donna bust and his performance was cheesy in the short jaunts on the park that he was allowed--feta cheese no less and it grated on me. :003:

This is a tough one for me -remembering all the street names and Italian names etc. The Italian prisoners of war worked in Howden's Nursery, which was over the back hedge of our home at 46 Dunain Road.--perfect for mother to hand cups of tea to them over the hedge once a day. They seemed to enjoy the cuppas so maybe that's why so many stayed on --Highland hospitality and all--anyway this is one vivid memory that remains whereas sometimes I can't remember the names of former customers of my business. Yeah, well, some of my past clients in Canada are best to forget..ahemmmmmm! Where was the POW camp--surely not far from Howdens? Anyone know ?

Er--I got on free at the dodgems and swings at the Nairn fair since Mammy & Daddy knew the Herchers. That was a good memory. Also Candy floss was a special memory, the Links at Nairn allied to the great sandy beaches , warm , never-ending summer evenings and playing down at the suspension bridge at the River in Nairn close to the former site of the Nairne castle that once stood at that very spot (now, I understand, removed a mile or so and renamed Cawdor castle).. At the bught in Inverness the rifle shoting gallery always took my fancy. :006: Like the bearded lady when she winked at me.... :004:

I remember the baths well but few if any exciting incidents like you all have apparently had. Alex MacLeod that was a quick one , sharp as a tack :015: Hope your neck feels better IHE--mine suffers all the time these days --today they call it repetitive work injury. In your day they probably referred to your condition as repetitive acrobatic erotic contortions.. :002: A96 , I can see you took your drowning incident very seriously. One of life's little challenges I suppose. Reminds me of the time on a beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, where I looked back at the rolling surf and thought I would catch a wave and ride smoothly in to shore. Until I mistimed my dive and the wave hit me like a ton of bricks on the back instead. What seemed like 5 minutes later , a totally disorientated mind filled with nausea and fear, and a mouthful of bottom sand I realised that i was still alive and was still able to stand up. Another reminder , timely I might add, of the power of water. : :notworthy01: The girl I was with said "you handled that well , I wondered if you were going to come up". Staying calm saved my bacon -- I wondered why she was so nonchalant until she told me she was once pulled under and pinned ten feet down by a similar incoming wave against the bottom of a sea wall and thought she would never make it up again-. Suddenly the wave receded and with the pressure off she was able to surface.-staying calm she said saved her bacon too.

Metalgecko--no offense but you are funny. :015:Hoch! Hoch!

Alex 's book "The Lads from The Ferry" is highly recommended reading. Very funny indeed. As for Dalneigh I would like a photo please of the last private bungalow on the left of Fairfield road (if it still exists- very close to the Bumbers lane which was opposite) which adjoins the first Dalneigh house in that row on Fairfield road which leads up to the canal. I have a feeling looking at the satellite location map that Lauraness either lives in that self-same bungalow or the Council houses next to it? My reason for wanting this is that when I was a very young lad I had a friend, Johnny Cooper ,who lived in that house -his dad was a Major in the army. Johnny and I smuggled his rifle out of the bathroom window with live ammo to play in the sand which had been dumped there as they commenced building Dalneigh and how we did not do damage is beyond me on reflection.We somehow climbed back in the window before Dad appeared again and never got caught..whew , that would have been a real stramash had he found out and my Dad would have heard about it too I am certain. He subsequently left for Maidstone in Kent and then apparently went off to Australia so unless Jock knows about him in Australia I will have to wait until I die to meet up with Johhny again! :002:

Eh didn't need money for school dinners, eh went home for "lunch" on the Station square bus --or rode my bike. Then back to the Academy via school bus pick-up at the top of Lochalsh Road, if you had a penny for the fare !!! About the Playhouse--the lasting memory of seeing Spartacus from the lower stalls, in glorious Black and White. Saw the remake last night in my own home on DVD in colour but not a patch on the original. Kirk Douglas was really some kind of presence on the screen in the main role; hard to beat. Stunned by the old picture of the playhouse, never thought I would see the frontage again; remembering queuing up with Mammy amd Daddy on a Saturday night to the left of the entranceway shown there. We never had to queue at the Palace since M and D were pally with Mr Frank taylor the owner and the ticket box lady also was understanding of the nudge nudge wink wink situation. Sometimes , however, I felt a bit guilty just walking past the queues. That's where Scarlet got his taste for the thrill of privilege and power I guess....... :003: Saturday matinees at the La Scala--B & W movies like Clancy of the Mounted and Tom Mix etc.; little did I know that one day I would be in the land of the "Mounted"--nowadays "the Mounties", as they are called in Canada, run around in large, powerful high-price motors with the gee-gees used mostly for ceremonial duties or crowd control on occasion. On horseback in their red serge uniforms and leather leggings they do look impressive however, especially the really big lads.

Have you noticed that none have performed in an outstanding manner. Larsson was ineffectve and ultimately was substituted. Zarkewski did a hustle or two but was also largely ineffective. Nakamura did not achieve too much in todays's game etc.There was an Aussie who plays in the Scottish first Division I think whose name escapes me but he was largely unseen for much of the game. Which prompts the question in my mind...The standards here may be too high for the Scottish team to have any real hope of progressing past the first round in 2010 --there just is too much elegance, finesse, pace and class on view every day. And just watching Ghanas first game performance of gleeful abandoned play which they obviously enjoyed so much was for me the best game so far for super football and drama. So over to youse with your views. :004:

I saw some pretty discriminatory refereeing and think that some of the big teams received favourites status with dodgy referees' decisions going their way. In particular one was a penalty which was not one. The other thing that made me cynical is how may players there are who seem to go down at the drop of a hat. Such as...a hard enough shoulder charge ,which nowadays seems to be a foul ,sending them rolling in agony for hours. And the players who also are not actually touched by a hard tackle because they whip their legs up at the last minute but sprawl over and over for yards and bury their head in the turf whilst clutching a leg as if it was torn of at the hip. etc. I have never seen so many halts in the play for minor infractions alleged to be fouls actually incurred as a normal run of play hsustle and bustle. The third thing that seems to be all too frequent is the number of yellow cards handed out, often for seemingly innocuous fouls--some very harsh. Maybe the refs have been told to be harsh to avoid injury or something but I think it just is "over the top" in many cases and all this results in a constant stopping and starting of the game. I think Ghana will be in the final..any takers? Scarlet :010: :012:

One thing you can say , however, is that he played with verve and had some great saves.

Gringo--I read your post with amusement and promptly mused....because I bought my wee business on 15 July 1979 and have been in it (not necessarily willingly, however, especially in the last few years) for nearly 27 years- at times it has been a wild ride just like your experience with fear and loathing intermixed with exhileration..ha! Retirement is now a distinct possibility--any country houses in Berriedale up for sale I wonder.? Would have to have a helicopter pad, though, to assure a comfortable ride to the ICT stadium every other week... :002:

CuteCaley Chick--how about a wee interesting reply to that one then? Ha! :001:

Flattering article, made you feel really good didn't it/ About time we had some fairer press and more insightful and objective appraisal of the progress and goings-on at the Caley Thistle Park. Well, I've now got the fixtures list pinned up to the bookcase in my wee office so we are set for the off very soon guys. :clapping04:

Why are we so pally with Sheffield United all of a sudden? Or has this been the case for several years. Does Sheffield think that our performance in the SPL deserves the nomenclature of "Gay Blades" I wonder? Or do they simply play with such gay abandon that they feel that only ICT of the SPL measures up to their style? Sigh..it's so hard to write stuff when everybody else ins in their bed. :016: Oh Well...." I say, Gaylord, will you bring me another toddy please, that's a good fellow". Sigh..I think I'll keep him on at the Hall, he does a good turn I have to say that and he can liosten very well without giving old Scarlet a lot of cheek which helps I guess in this day and age... :003:

And RIG--I see you are online the noo--What are you doing up at this time of the morgen? ..Eh? :003:

They had better be well into a good training vogue otherwise their wee legas are going to be realllllly sore.. :011: :notworthy01:

I agree with Kingsmills--doing that would be the thin edge of the wedsge and may be the start of an ICT decline as a result. And Celtic 1 Caley 3 is a thinker--I was interested in the new Inverness a to Ireland air service myself in the hope and a dream that I may finally get a holiday in Inverness sooner rather than later. Oh by the way I used a Real Estate Agent named Hoolihan, to try to sell my house last year, who had been the sports broadcaster for the local TV station and fired him 4 months later due to inactivity. He claimed woes and pain from former injuries to his body playing in the North American Football League but the first time he entered the premises he launched into a strong rendering of Irish songs which left some lingering doubts right from the get-go that either (a) his mind was not on the job or (b) his self image was still dictated by his glory days on the small screen. Pity the contacts that I thought he would have from that lost era never materialised and we were left in the mire with one month to go to settlement time for the house which we had by then bought to move to.. So let's hope Hoolahan doe not turn into Hooligan if all does come to pass. :015:

Gretna may win the Division next season but it won't be a cakewalk I think. Some of their players are now reaching the veteran satge are they not-in which case they will have to splurge to bring in fresh blood? Mr Milesom is enjoying his success at Gretna so much that investing more cash for him is a no brainer.And he is an enthusiastic genuine punter so good luck to him. Watch Gretna, they are a real dark horse coming up the straight fast .... :006: