Happy Buddie
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A magnificent part of the world, Shull. I love the whole of the Inishowen Peninsula. In my early days motoring around up there I was totally amazed at the number of new houses all over the place and it turned out it was EU money run riot. Cottage owners got grants and all sorts to build new homes and it seems a stack of olde worlde thatched cottages and the like got flattened. Criminal but there is still plenty of the real Ireland to be seen. Donegal is so remote from Dublin that a lot of locals feel disenfranchised. The growth of Muff and other villages in Donegal is largely down now to British money and with the troubles more or less in the past the area is doing quite well. The tourist trade should be flourishing. If I had relatives up there I'd be gatecrashing regularly.
These houses were built on "business grants" , not loans, of 90% for bed & breakfasts, the beauty is they only had to open for business one day a year, usually Xmas Day and even then there were always No Vacancies.
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Day I was born 8th November 1958, pumped 1-5 at Love Street by Aberdeen. BOOOOOOO. But..........revenge on the 25th April 1959 when we pumped them 3-1 in the Cup Final. Yippeeee.
I was on my Da's shooders when they brought the cup back to Paisley.
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Keep meaning to have a wee tour of Ireland the only place I have ever been is Cork so think I will do this next summer. Will pick your brains later in the year Rick.
Hope you enjoy a wee bit of the craic when you're in Muff.
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My uncle Brian was Mayor of Muff back in the 90's, I can still recall the pride we felt when he phoned to tell us the news. A couple of my cousins still live there, I can recommend the annual Muff Festival, I like to attend most years, it's also worth having your picture taken at the 'Muff welcomes careful drivers' sign. Do your own doctoring, either for real or with digital means...
As my old Grampa used to say, the Mayor Muff, the better.
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In the George St area we simply called it, 'Best Falls'.
I thought someone would mention the upgraded version of the gieg - the 'Bogie'. The difference was the addition of an wooden orange box which was nailed on the the plank with one end knocked out so you could sit in it.
The game has already been mentioned but can you tell me from which one this phrase was sung by the participants......?
'Get oot the den ya hungry hen ya poacher!'
A kind of hardcore hide n seek called ???Buzz off??
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With no football until the world cup, if you're looking to do something a bit different this summer have you ever considered diving in Donegal? Just north of Derry in Co.Donegal sits the lovely village of Muff. It sits at the mouth of the River Foyle where it joins Lough Foyle. The Muff Diving Club is one of the most successful diving clubs in Ireland if not the world and people from over flock to Muff for a bit of down under sport. I've done some snorkling up there and I can confirm that there are some sensational sights around and you will see things you will never forget. There's a real taste of Ireland to be had in Muff. You could comb the world and never find a more interesting spot.
Details at www.muffdivingclub.ie
Fish or seaweed?
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Richard Dunne used to show his fight with Ali in the Cinemas Offshore wherever he went, he would prime somebody to shout out just as the fight was starting...
" I'll have a fiver on the Black Guy"...or words to that effect
Always got a laugh too.....He charged everybody 50p and it all went to charity.
Absolutely priceless at the Messhall at night when the Big Man was getting his dinner,he would just stand there until the Chef could put nothing more on his plate and
if he thought he could get still more on he would give the Chef the stare and say...."Now then Youth" as though he was addressing a child. Would you say No...??
Sadly had a terrible fall some years ago and that pretty much finished his working career IIRC.
I remember RD well as I was a real boxing fan before Sky got a hold of it. He was a brickie's labourer before he went pro boxing, got absolutely belted, by Ali I think (but mibbe no) then at the end of the fight Harry Carpenter asked what he'd do next, he replied "I'll find something, I'm still young. Tell me I'm still young.", with a big daft smile on his face.
ETA, just checked, the fight he said the above was his second last, against Bugner, blown away in the first round.
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Have a word with Kevin Thomson, I've heard he's got some spare time on his hands, he knows everything there is to know about diving.
BTW if you do go diving in Muff, just be careful, the sewage outlet is quite near the playground.
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Just thinking about the three into two scenario in the First Division next season. Surely there is a now strong argument for Hearts and Hibs to merge into one club to help them compete?
If only they had recognised what a visionary Wallace Mercer was, all of this didn't need to happen.
I was going to say three big fish in a wee pond, but I feel the have more in common with eels than real fish..........slippery horibble ba$tards. And they're in a trap for next season from which only two can escape. I can see almost all of the current Championship managers next season rubbing their hands and saying let's get intae these toerags, we can take them (mibbe no Hertz, but the other two).
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That's excellent
Was always a treat if you found a wee scrap of carpet tae sit oan.
Where did we always find rope for steering ? Surely we didnae knick it off the line ?
We used the wee hoopy bit of steel from the back of a toddler's trike, hacksaw through the tube the ran down from the saddle to the middle of the rear axle, leaving a wee circle of tube attached to the axle, through which you could hammer a nail into the wood from below, giving solid-state steering, much more positive than rope, we used to fly down Brediland Road from the bus stop at Amochrie Road, taking that big sweeping right hand bend at the bottom near the clinic. Used to scare the shit out of car and bus drivers coming up the hill as we clattered sideways (drifting?) towards them.
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Do you remember when the trial known as the Duchess of Hamilton scandal was going on there was a spoof news item that said when they announced over the tannoy at Rothesay pier that the Duchess of Hamilton was approaching, over three hundred men were killed in the rush? And did she really do what yon famous photo suggested? And who did she do it to? Lucky bastard.
I don't remember anything about that, sounds juicy. What was the story?
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I used to enjoy being terrified whilst travelling almost horizontally, worried I would be ejected out of the porthole in the toilets on any of the Juno, Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune (can't remember which were the regular ferries and which were the relief ones!) between Wemyss Bay and Rothesay... :-D Folks these days don't realise how good they've got it with their ferries!!!
I prefer my ferry travel to be horizontal, feckin' hat vertical, that does my stomach in. I presume you meant "sideways".
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I'm sure the EU would be happy to maintain the number of countries in its sawy, as Englandshire and a few others try to negotiate their way out ( or just leave). I can see a lot of plc.s moving their headquarters north in order to have a foothold in Europe as the Tories, Labour etc., become political chameleons to keep saets on the gravy train that is a politician's lot.
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Wales
Nice one, but funnily enough, it's for exactly the opposite reason, in that their Capital clubs are too big for their ultra-diddy league. Jeez, some of those clubs make the Highland League look like La Liga.
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OK. Pub quiz question. How many other capital cities in Europe don't have a team playing in theiir countries top league?
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My biggest "Jeeeezuss!!!" moment came at Prestwick when I used to commute back and forth to Dublin a few years ago. One of those big C5 Galaxy buggers was on the tramac as we landed, apparently one had broken a wing in Germany and the only thing big enough to carry the spare wing was one of its sisters, but it had to land at Prestwick as it didn't have enough fuel to go all the way to Germany in one hop, and there wasn't a runway long enough anywhere else to land and take off again. Up until that point I thought Jumbos were big. Haven't seen the new Dreamliner or A380 up close yet tho'. Are they as big? Hard to beleive, almost, that soemthing that size can fly. Seems it hold the record for the heaviest "plane plus cargo" ever to fly, c.350 tons, only things heavier that can "fly" are rocket powered.
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The stories of Sid's misbehaviour (mibbe it is something in the name) are legion. My mate at worktold me on one of their early visits to the US, when they landed at JFK, the rest of the band turned right at the exit to follow the limo driver, Sid turned left, and nobody saw him again for 5 days when he turned up at a hotel in Chicago. (the band at that stage were in Houston)
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Another neddish, wee corner-boy gone from scottish fotball. That can only be a good thing. Saying that, if he does end up at Norwich, I'll be mightily interested to see how he handles real pressure. Cue Hiroshima on the touchline.
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The most famous Yew tree in Renfrewshire is Wallace's Yew in Elderslie.
Surprised that the cnutcil have not moved the monument by now to sit outside their feckin office in Paisley.
That might be it, it does look blasted, I remember going to se the Wallace Yew with my Grampa in the 60s (jeez that long?) and remembered it a a big full, wide tree.
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SNCF - Stations No Coaches Fit.
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I'll get one on Saturday if no-one has before me.
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On the hoarding of the Tesco
site on Renfrew Road, one of RDC's posters has pictures of the Toon Hall and the Abbey and of Castle Semple Loch on either side of a picture of a pretty dramatic looking tree, mibbe a yew. Can anyone identify where that tree is? -
On the radio last night, someone said it'll be his agent shit-stirring, he's guilty of this sort of thing before, looking to make his client or the team unhappy/unsettled, so he can get his cut of yet another transfer deal. Smacks of the Anelka Brothers situation.
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That is exactly what I was going to say
Same crowd, same score both home and away
Isnt that just uncanny
Are the games on telly or just the tranny?
However I do not lie, I do not tell fibs
I was not going to say "nae luck Hibs"
Is there a tranny playing on the telly tonight? Might watch that, if the game's no' oan.
Next Season's Fixtures
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Does anyone know when the SPFL let the computer run riot and decide who plays who, where and when next season? And when they tell us?