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OOH, you are awful, Bughtnaster--but I like you!

IBM IHE. Thanks for replying And IBM thank you also for your kind reply. I am extremely indebted to you. And it's a huge emotional experience for me right now--something that I could never have imagined. This means so much to me since my mother was born in the left house with her 3 brothers and her sister , my Auntie Neen, who married the American serviceman in the nineteen forties. She lived there, I think, until she married my father and then of course, moved to Dunain Road. I visited the house called Spring Cottage with my mother as a very young boy but not often. We took the bus from Dunain Road to the Station Square where we got another bus up to Culcabock. I remember my grandmother but not my grandpa since he had died about a year or so before I was born in 1938. And certain features of the insides such as the old fashioned range in the kitchen where Grandma did her baking and which was a very large metal stove with an equally large stack pipe disappearing into the ceiling. Downstairs, there was a front parlour on the right side (looking at it from the front), a bedroom on the left and bedrooms upstairs which I never entered for some reason. The pantry was off the kitchen at the back and there was a little garden at the back where I used to run up to the wire fence, climb on it and look over the field to the hospital area. The only other occupant of the home was Princey, their black and old dog . Also, I would run round the house and stare down King Duncan's well situated a few yards to the left of the house, just left of the wall-end and telegraph pole just out of site in this photograph. There were hedges at the front on the left and right of the gate and exiting the gate could be very hazardous since there was no pavement and the roadway more or less ran right up to the edge of the front pathway. Needless to say there was very little traffic but my folks must have had a lot of faith in me, the very little fella, since they never did try to restrict my movements around the house although I am sure they somehow kept an eye on me. IHE I will send you a PM and I would like to ask if you can please send me a copy of that photo since it brings back so many memories. Many, many thanks . Roderick (aka S.P.)

IHE, is that in Culcabock? If so, I know where and why?

Is there a mini golf course at Torvean? Then that's the Tomnahurich cemetery behind?????

Molson still doing well in Canada. Very big. Their favorite beer could be Molson Canadian which is a nice strong to medium taste and very thirst quenching The Kanaga Indians hailed from the Hawaiis or some such place and were brought over here as immigrants to work locally here in Maple Ridge. I think, if I remember correctly, that the word Kanaga melded into the word Canada. I'll look it up. My favorite is a new local beer named Ironhorse. Full bodied but not too acrid. Lovely taste.

Rangers who? How the mighty have fallen. A complete train wreck now I fear.

1860's,... Chas?

Just in case y'all missed Charlie's last comment, I have a sinking feeling that the four older and wiser members he separates from the herd are being reminded (possibly correctly) that they are eros-wholes. Mostly because aerosol cans are activated by the emission of gas into their middle chamber...... Admittedly we all four of us, with our deeper wisdom, do on occasion talk turkey above his head but that's really no excuse for such demented profanity. Keep up dear lad, listen and learn frae yer elders.

If that is in fact the case then Richie's injury must have been a bad one.. much more serious than anybody might be willing to admit. When it involves ligaments or such, which don't have their own blood supply but absorb nutrients by osmosis, then it's always going to be a race against time. And then depression sets in, followed by premature attempts to come back too quickly when you start to feel less pain. Unless Richie has had a really top class surgeon who worked on him then it's very possible that he will feel the effects of this injury for many many years. All we can do is wish him the very best of luck and hope his recovery now is swift.

A fan can get a bit browned off with n comments like that.

I have moved to the final where Celtic versus ICT is the order of the day. Large payday for us which is what we need to strengthen our financial structure and give John Hughes more room to mive re transfers etc. Whew! We finally beat Partick--I was beginning to think that every dog may have it's day but also a team might have a nemesis.

And Richie--- will he ever come back now ?

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/09/the-mohawks-who-built-manhattan-photos.html

Oh, and a little aside...in North America they employed native Indians for these very high-rig jobs because they were so sure footed. And this trait and these jobs were passed down father to son decade after decade. And, yes, these fellas did walk along these large beams at very high levels often without safety nets below. To watch them on film is awesome .

C.B, I was thinking the same thing. Every time I see it I cringe and sweat comes out in me hands! The background must have been superimposed after the shot was taken because these guys are far too casual for such a height. One of them is even sitting turned, and almost half off, the metal beam. Also there probably was a safety net below, though.

Harry Do you think that this would even be contemplated--not to try to get into Europe, I mean? I very much doubt it --I think I heard John Hughes mention the club's ambitions included getting in to Europe...so.....? Would the crowd at Tulloch be sufficient to justify the challenge. Are the gate receipts conjoined from the home and away games and then split down the middle?

Er, well, I think it would be wise only to comment on the pound versus the B o E note thing. Really what I know about Scottish politics and the English thing is very little indeed. In Canada, U.S. dollars may be regarded as legal tender by Americans but the average Canadian is so glad to get them that the question as to whether they are legal tender in Canada would never enter their head. But they would have to exchange them at the bank at the going rate of exchange so it might be a smart move on their part to check the rates carefully before rushing into a large transaction because the rate has changed drastically over the past two months. So what could they do if faced with the dilemma of turning down a Yank at the counter on this issue and maybe lose the business? Well, I suppose the best thing would be to suggest that the Yank drops by the bank and changes them there into Canadian Dollars and, if it is close by, then just go with him as a PR exercise which I think would go down very well indeed with the visitor; just making sure that if the shopkeeper next door has the same product on display then stand in front of the window so Yankee Doodle can't see in as they pass it. Offer the explanation that he /she will get a better rate at the bank. Or get up to speed on the buying and selling rates daily and take the U.S. currency at the counter maybe adding on 10% for worry and stress. If we were to take Canadian notes into America to spend then they would be accepted I am sure without comment but the rate of exchange would not be advantageous to the Northerner so no one in their right mind is likely to think that it would be a good thing to contemplate. The other thing nowadays for Canadian businesses to review carefully is that the Canadian Dollar has been greatly affected by the drop in the oil price and, to buy a U .S. Dollar today just to go into America, we would have to pay $1.285 Canadian for one $U.S. to go into his pocket whereas the rate recently was slightly better than par. So the Canadian dollar has now been devalued somewhat. It's good for me when I cash My DSS pension in pounds at the bank, though, because the rate of exchange has been rising in my favour. Today it is $1.86 Can per one pound whereas a month ago it was only $1.75 Can. I see that the upward move has now slowed down which probably means that oil is stabilizing in price and could start to go back up. Petrol is again rising from $1 to $1.11 per litre (5 pounds per gallon) at the pumps last night here in Vancouver. Mind you that COULD easily simply be that greed has again overcome caution in the minds of the supplier of gas to the Shell/Esso station or just by the owner of the station. I check the gas pump prices locally here in the "Ridge" daily as follows: http://www.vancouvergasprices.com/Maple_Ridge/index.aspx Me? I rarely if ever carry notes in my pocket anymore so either Amex or Visa, both of which are as much the equivalent of legal tender anywhere in the world, and negotiable with far less hassle it appears, are always my preferred choice. Or, if I am coming to Scotland, I wear a body belt packed with pounds for spending in Inverness on the off chance that Canadian (or even U.S. ) dollars would create a hassle when offered. Cheers S.P.

Yes I It does look as if he had a tall.. column.. of reds to explain.

So Charles --what happened to the ground at Kingsmills park. Sold and now built on or what...? Appreciated.

Great thread. Can anyone (Charles?) answer the questions I asked in post # 26 please? thanks. S.P.

OMG, what HAVE I started.? Now you have highlighted my weakness--old age a-coming, I am quite ...cowed.

Wel , as an older geezer I have to support Bughtie with his outlook. You say we have no chance to win the League etc. etc.--why Billy was not the only player on this team --it's about a team , not an individual. Why can't you just say that we still have a chance. Same old same old, negativers again. There is no proof of any stupidity or any fault by anyone in Management so why not get behind them and SUPPORT them instead of lambasting them ..for what? For inactivity.. sometimes that is a smart move . You can bet on it that they are trying very hard to work out a policy or strategytyhat nwill be for the benefit of ICT in the long run//Remember the old joke A young bull and an old one are standing at the top of the hill and the youngster, fuelled by adrenaline and blistering testosterone, cries out in a fervent: OOOH. look at all these lovely cows down there Let's rush down and get one." Replies the old fella, still alive and kicking "Aye, laddie, thas a good idea but why not mosey on down the prairie and tat modest pace and conserve our energy; then we can get all of them?"

Contingency plan could be anything ..even extra training, for goodness sake. Please ease up on he Chairman. And if you can't or want more info then pose a question of management on this site or write to him direct.

Pretty big hoose. How many children did it contain?

Whoever crosses into the box, well then the other guy can latch onto it and ..." he shoots, he scoooooores."