Charles Bannerman

Yes, enjoyed it too. Bumped into DJS in Room 15! It's even longer since I left and there have been equally few changes in that time. I was just wondering how they managed to get 42 desks packed into these classrooms in these days. Met Davie Love who was in my class at Dalneigh and he was remembering when he was put in Mallinson the music teacher's cupboard in the GP room for misbehaving and then got belted by the headmaster for appearing wearing Mallinson's coat and hat. Lots of old photos, including those of football teams from various eras (I was never good enough to play though). They were all with John MacLeod the deputy headmaster who, I would emphasise, was the drinker and not John MacLeod the headmaster. They both happened to have the same name. The deputy lived in the Moyness Hotel in Bruce Gardens. I was also reminded of having to go down to behind the hall and collect the milk crates and take them to the various classes... ah the days of free school milk before Maggie Thatcher abolished it. And I didn't know Rod the Mod was a Dalneigh School FP!

Inverness Royal Academy finally moved out of Midmills into a single site at Culduthel in 1979. the embryonic Culloden Academy, some of whose pupils had been held at Millburn for a year or two, then temporarily moved into Midmills until their new building at Culloden was ready in, i think, 1981. Sorry... off topic.

That was MacKenzie and MacPherson (see my earlier post).

BUMP... just to remind people that the Dalneigh School FPs' open day is today between 4 and 7.

MacKenzie and MacPherson at the top of Raining's Stairs. Alastair MacPherson and Dunc MacKenzie. My dad and I both took our cars there. Then we went to Brown's near the Black Bridge.... until they forgot to tighten the nuts on one of my wheels one day. (Since then it's been F and R MacDonald which is alive, well and excellent.) There was also MacPherson's on Midmills Road. I think I used them once or twice in the distant past. Also, the Inverness Motor Company where I bought my first car.

You got this weeks Lotto numbers? I truly believe your are psychic (or is that psychotic, I always mix those two up) Both?

So let me just make sure I've got this one right..... With their team hanging on, sometimes precariously, to a 1-0 lead, there was a group of Caley Thistle "fans" at the game yesterday who were booing the goalkeeper :finger02: and then the substitute striker when he came on. Presumably these people had no worries at all about the possibility that the booing might have caused either player to make a mistake which could have cost "their" side two points? :020: :024: :33: :018: I'm just so sorry that the poor sensitive souls should feel so upset that the nasty goalie should have responded in kind. :cry03:

I also remember the days of gas (N2O - nitrous oxide or laughing gas). I used to get it from Mr. MacDonald in Queensgate when I was a kid. Then in the 70s Eddie Sharpe in Hilton started giving a different gas which became very popular although IHE probably relied on stamps.

Willie Ross. He delivered our groceries to Kenneth St and then Dalneigh for years and there was always a box of chocs at the end of the month when the bill was paid. He would phone my mum up for her list and within an hour or two the stuff was there. He was the man who introduced me to MacKintrosh's Queens Cup. However, as was the case with so many small shops, supermarket prices won out in the end and my mum reluctantly started going to the Coop. Willie used to stand on the wall at Greig's Garage on a Saturday afyernoon and watch the second half of Caley games from there.

Yes, and there are some of us on here who remember what YOU were like as an Academy "pupil"! :015:

Oh well, that sort of explains why Peter and not IHE is the fitness coach! :015:

Peter was at Inverness College and came to Caley Thistle part time before moving with CB to Tannadice. When CB left DU, Peter stayed on until a few months ago but has now returned to Inverness and is back with ICT part time. During his previous spell at ICT, I had a number of great conversations with Peter about training, fitness and conditioning and I am in no doubt that he is extremely well versed in his subject. Certainly we found ourselves very much singing from the same hymnsheet on the occasions that we did have a talk.

What is X ray vision, though? "Vision" remember is what our brain makes of the visible radiation it RECEIVES. If the retina were instead sensitive to X rays, then we would see virtually nothing since (thank goodness) there aren't many X rays in our environment. Anything relying ion radiation GIVEN OUT (such as x rays) would be totally useless because you wouldn't actually receive anything at all for your brain to process.

As I recollect there were limited power cuts with the 1972 miners' strike which were worse during the 74 dispute, leading to a 3 day week.

Hearts have always been very strong on Remembrance Day, indeed it's something of a club tradition. It goes back to 1916 when on ther first day of the Battle of the Somme a lot of Hearts players died as members of the 16th battalion of the Royal scots (known as "McCrae's Own"). On that day, when there were 57,000 British casualties, 19000 of them fatal, this was one of the units selected to go "over the top" and three quarters of them became casualties. There's a book and a TV documentary about iti. David... I can empathis with what you've said. I was in the military cemetary at Ranville above Sword Beach and Pegasus Bridge in Normandy a few years ago abnd it was a very moving experience.

I just don't remember that at all. Certainly there was very nearly petrol rationing around that time following the October 1973 2nd Arab Israeli War but I just don't remember the sugar shortage. Two general elections (Feb and Oct) in 1974 are my most prominent memory of that year, apart from winning the 400m at the Edinburgh University Sports and with it the Eric Liddell Trophy on the 50th annivesary of Liddell's Olympic 400m win in Paris in 1924 (which I don't remember!)

I believe Barry also performed the same feat at the previous millennium change! :015: And Ross Tokely has also worn every shirt number from 1 (yes 1) to 11 bar I THINK number 9.

I would imagine that "bated" is an abbreviated form of "abated" which means stopped or held back. The phrase probably therefore has similar origins to "don't hold your breath". Humans are alleged to hold their breath in anticiaption of something significant. I could guess that the origin of the word might be somewhere in Shakespeare since all the guy really did was to take a load of well known phrases and string them together! :015:

You're presumably asking us because to most other people on this forum, this is ancient history? :003: I'm sorry, I haven't a clue but get back to me in 2044 and I'll probably quote Caley Thistle and Aberdeen at you! :015:

I've just heard that Dalneigh Primary School is holding an Open Day for former pupils from the 1950s through to 2000 in the school itself between 4pm and 7pm on Wednesday 28th November.

Now there's an interesting recollection! I simply assumed that Diggar was a natural Howden Ender and he never struck me as a "stand" person but I don't have the benefit of your direct experience.

For "rant" read "two liner to see who would be first to snatch the bait"! :015:

Remember that on a Saturday for the duration of play, Radio Scotland's frequencies are split to offer a wide range of SPL games within the transmission area. There's 92-95FM, 810 Medium Wave, Radio nan Gaidheal 103.5-105FM, which can all be heard nationally, and the local opts out in the Highlands (for ICT matches if they don't make a national frequency), Aberdeen area (for Dons) and Dumfries area (for Gretna). In principle, Radio Scotland can therefore cover all six matches as long as ICT, Dons and Gretna are not playing each other. I've never known this, but certainly up to 4 games have been done - albeit some of them only in the local area of the team concerned. It's therefore as well to check which game is on which frequency. I think this is usually announced at the top of the programme just after 2pm. Note that this doesn't happen with Sunday or midweek Sportsound which is 810MW only, although the same programme is also broadcast on the R nan G frequency in better quality when R nan G is not on the air. With a 2pm Sunday kick off, this means suddenly getting a Gaelic church service just as the second half is about to begin! As for the "diaspora" not being able to get certain games abroad, which has been bemoaned on another thread, I don't know much about trhis but it's my understanding that this has something to do with the media rights of certain clubs. It's a "diasporate" :015: situation I know but that's just the wat is has to be.

And this after they presided over the construction of an eventual ?430 million eyesore that looks like a Spanish tenement with bits falling off. Did somebody say they're now asking for MORE powers?

Note the effective double negative in the question. As a result, 12th man's response does seem to be a bit more likely than the rest.