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Post by accykeef on Aug 22, 2009 16:54:57 GMT
We have been in and around The Machars (South West Scotland) this last week without Internet and with a very limited mobile phone service, it has been great!
Lots of pics to show but they need sorting out.
We managed to do a lot - even though there was nothing to do.
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Post by trevnhil on Aug 22, 2009 17:28:57 GMT
So you have been...
"Busy doing nothing, nothing the whole day through.
Trying so hard to find things not to do."
I knew you would come up with a good excuse for not knowing the quiz answers.
Glad you all had a good break, and I will look forward to the pictures when you have them sorted.
Best wishes. Trev..
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Post by musky on Aug 22, 2009 17:29:09 GMT
Great to see you had a good time. Me and Mrs Musky like Scotland hope to get up there later in the year.
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Post by accykeef on Aug 22, 2009 19:09:50 GMT
Yes Trev - spot on - our kind of holiday. Thanks Musky - I will put the details of the cottage on later but it is really for 4+ people. I like Scotland - well driving North really because it tends to be quieter. A few years ago - we drove from Inverness to Falkirk without catching a single car up - Mrs Keef says it was because I was drunk and didn't get faster than 30mph all the way but I don't think the distillery tour was all that good.  Has anyone got any suggestions about the Highlands - Maybe that AndyIrvine fellow has some experiences about life before the clearance. |
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Post by musky on Aug 23, 2009 11:35:04 GMT
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Post by accykeef on Aug 23, 2009 15:14:05 GMT
That place look good but there are 5 of us in the equation so it could be a little crowded.
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Post by musky on Aug 24, 2009 10:42:53 GMT
Hi Keith. The owners have two both the same about 100mtrs from each other.
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Aug 25, 2009 19:37:19 GMT
I love the Highlands - the Isle of Skye and anywhere between there and north of Glasgow. We usually pop up there once a year and stay in a lovely little B&B just outside Fort William. I would highly recommend it. P.S. Look foward to seeing some of your photographs Keith. |
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Post by andrewirvine on Aug 27, 2009 21:57:25 GMT
Sassenach actually means a 'Lowland Scot' but the word was hijacked and it's meaning changed.
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Post by accykeef on Aug 28, 2009 7:24:25 GMT
I stand corrected Andrew, I always understood it to mean anyone who is not Scottish as I was once called it in a bar in Girvan.
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Aug 28, 2009 19:30:44 GMT
I always thought it came from the Gaelic for Saxon. I was always called the Sassenach by my cousins in Scotland when we were kids.The Irish Gaeilge word for an Englishman is Sasanach which is very similar.
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Post by andrewirvine on Aug 30, 2009 9:30:36 GMT
It's a word that is used out of context, and now means someone from England, just like 'chav' is a shortened word for what is meant to be a Romany child (gypsy) but now refers to someone in a Burberry baseball cap wearing 'ned' that hangs about street corners etc.
Irish Gaelic (pronounced Gaylic) and Scottish Gaelic (pronounced Gallic) do have some spelling and pronounciation differences in some words, but the vast majority of the language is the same. Just as in some parts of the country what something is known as in one place is called something else in another part of the country.
In most of Scotland 'baffies' are slippers, in Fife, they are bread rolls, so if you say to someone in Fife you are going to eat your baffies...... well..................................
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Post by trevnhil on Aug 30, 2009 10:09:05 GMT
My Daughter, although born in Lancashire has live a lot of years in the Glasgow area. She goes for her 'Messages, back o the clock'  ?? Now why would you leave a note behind the clock.  Better to leave it on the table to see when you bring your shopping in. ;D Trev.. |
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Post by andrewirvine on Aug 30, 2009 16:02:42 GMT
'Messages' in this case means the note saying what you need. If it's behind the clock it's less likely to be moved, and you probably look at the clock more than the table. I don't know if it's derived from a French word. People get confused when people here say 'I'm going for my messages' meaning shopping. In fact, so do I! There is a lot of Scots words also derived from Dutch, as in we say 'watter' for water, which comes from the Dutch 'vater'. John O'Groats was named after a Dutchman called Jan De Groots, or something close to that. Just like English has a lot of French and German in it's make up, Scots has few bits of Dutch and Scandinavian.
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Post by trevnhil on Aug 30, 2009 17:45:23 GMT
'Messages' in this case means the note saying what you need. If it's behind the clock it's less likely to be moved, and you probably look at the clock more than the table. I don't know if it's derived from a French word. People get confused when people here say 'I'm going for my messages' meaning shopping. In fact, so do I! There is a lot of Scots words also derived from Dutch, as in we say 'watter' for water, which comes from the Dutch 'vater'. John O'Groats was named after a Dutchman called Jan De Groots, or something close to that. Just like English has a lot of French and German in it's make up, Scots has few bits of Dutch and Scandinavian. Well as far as my daughter and her Glaswegian husband are concerned, getting messages back o the clock means...... I will be going to get my shopping in the afternoon. It's all a foreign language to me, but we get by. Trev.. |
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