beachcomber

I'm surprised John Teasdale's Elgin City team haven't been included yet.

Ashers pies at Nairn - yummmmmmmm - 99% salt !

I'd take Caley back to the Highland League days when they visited Station Park for their regular rogerings by the Wee County - Happy days Beachcomber is just back from the Nairn v Elgin Scottish Cup Tie. 4-2 to Elgin, but they got two soft penalties and County had a goal chalked off for a dubious offside, so I'm claiming it as a moral victory. I'm sure the ref was John Teasdale !! (I saw him in the P&J looking for a job back in football right enough !) Big crowd, good crack, City supporters pouring off the trains at Nairn Station, The Vic jumping before the game, snaking queues at the gate, Cowshed hoaching, all in all, a cracking day out except for the official score. photos from the gurnmeister here

maybe the board just don't want to be reminded of their last costly interaction with a person of Romany origin

Do you reckon ICT can bounce back to the SPL next season, and what are the biggest threats to them not making it ?

The table doesn't lie, but I honestly didn't expect to lose today. Reality only hit me at the final whistle.

Hello from the North Sea - By feck the next 45 minutes are going to be high stress.

Dour is usually the first adjective used in relation to the Scots (closely followed by drunken right enuff), but from that grim dark brooding presbyterian cloud of gloom occasionally emerges the most stunning flash of inspirational forked lightening which can generate enough energy to change lives and light up the whole world. Without one we wouldn't get the other. Aye mun, it's all part of being Jockanese

What's he going for - is there a new Canadian Celeb Big Brother starting ? If they let him in, could we not instigate a similar ban here to stop him returning. Whilst I sympathise with most of his causes I find him pretty nauseating.

For me, it's the 'Caledonia' phenomenon. Check out the opening sequence of Monty Hall's show from Applecross on the box on Sunday night. If you wish you were there and a living breathing part of that country then that would maybe give you the feeling of what it is to be a Scotch-man, or rather a Highlander. I clearly recall living in London and nearly greetin at the scenery on Monarch of the Glen, I'd never really experienced homesickness until then. It's always highland phenomena that really get me - the moors, the stags, the mountains, the glens, the slate grey skies and seas, with the odd blue sky day just to show off what it can do when it wants. Views over Auld reekie can do it too. Not so keen on the Weegie end of our wee corner of the cosmos right enuff. If Glesga was to become part of England-shire, that would solve all my problems with the bonus that the the OF could then join the EPL, although they'd be more at home somewhere in Oireland apparently. Not to keen on Eberdeen either now that I think about it.

aye, this democrcy malarky aint all it's cracked up to be

Seems to me that road signs, which should be a purely utilitarian item for directing drivers in the right direction, are the wrong medium to be used for promoting the Gaelic. I'm not convinced they're dangerous, but they are bloody annoying and hard to read. If the politicians think they have got all that money to burn, couldn't they chuck it at business premises to get them to erect bilingual signs/literature etc. instead of cluttering up the signposts. pogue mahone

All the 'headhunters' and 'recruitment consultants' I've come across have been nothing but fast talking opportunist spivs and flash harrys.

You'll never Waulk alone ?

'Bring it on Home' - bring it on back