Carradale

[morenish]

c'mon bitter end, even i worked out who the three gentlemen are!?!
well i cheated a bit and did it electronically, tis a great thing the paperless sounder!
however i can't make out the gentlman standing on deck, whos he bochan?

i was away travelling again right enough, in fact i'm doin that much trevelin this year it makes sanyana look like an ESQ.
however mrs morenish got the second cut safely in while i was away.
now who had the temerity to acuse me of leaving so much wool on my sheep that they would stick to hot tar?
theres damn all money in wool nowadays so ye hae tae get every bit off the bu**ers to make it count.

now whit are you boys at the fishin payin for yer deisel?
i'm thinkin o turnin the whole croft over to oilseed rape for bio fuel, but knowing the way you lot look back yer probably thinkin on buyin steam drifters and using coal dredged from sound or maybe doin a deal wi the forestry for sticks,
look forward boys!
buy nice wee cats and ill supply ye wi good quality oil for the outboards, i'll even throw in some coloured dye jeest to make it look authentic.

[Bochan Mor]

c'mon bitter end, even i worked out who the three gentlemen are!?!
well i cheated a bit and did it electronically, tis a great thing the paperless sounder!
however i can't make out the gentlman standing on deck, whos he bochan?

Allow you Morenish, it just goes to show what a resourceful character you are. There's poor Bitter not even thinking on right clicking the picture. As for the man standing in the background, I'm naw sure, but I thought it could be 'Auld Chiefy', but that's nothing but a pure guess!

i was away travelling again right enough, in fact i'm doin that much trevelin this year it makes sanyana look like an ESQ.
however mrs morenish got the second cut safely in while i was away.
now who had the temerity to acuse me of leaving so much wool on my sheep that they would stick to hot tar?
theres damn all money in wool nowadays so ye hae tae get every bit off the bu**ers to make it count.

I expect you've packed the wool into the silencer of your old tractor, so that you can sneak from one side of the village to the other regardless of the lack of statutory requirements.

now whit are you boys at the fishin payin for yer deisel?
i'm thinkin o turnin the whole croft over to oilseed rape for bio fuel, but knowing the way you lot look back yer probably thinkin on buyin steam drifters and using coal dredged from sound or maybe doin a deal wi the forestry for sticks,
look forward boys!
buy nice wee cats and ill supply ye wi good quality oil for the outboards, i'll even throw in some coloured dye jeest to make it look authentic.

One thing's for sure, the fishemen will be parting with a damn site more than the fermers, when you consider the absence of subsidy in the most deserving sector....

[morenish]

naw! when i had all the big tractors(in the days before mrs morenish!) i could buy red deisel cheaper in 5 gallon (not 25L) drums from the local chandler than i could buying "farm" deisel in bulk, even though it all came from the same holding tank, i suspect fishermen actually get more in indirect subsidies than thier poor farmer cousins, it's chust that you's arna honest enough to admit it!, then again maybe the reason fuel was tax free to fishermen was the fact that polyshitons yachts ran on the very same stuff.


i'll ask yer permission to copy that photo as theres a bodach i know desperate keen to see it

[4th gen Suthen']

Where were you last night Morenish? thought you would have been rocking it up at the Trumpton Riot!! these young Carradale fellas were certainly full o' the nonsense!! you would have fitted right in up at the front..........bouncing!!

My 5th gen Suthen' daughter was right amongst it all and would not come home so I had to hing aboot till late late late......not that I was complaining, the atmosphere in Carradale Village hall was terrific.....even for a sober suits like me

But, as the man I thought was Bochan Mor would have been helluva busy preparing and setting up the hall at 7.06 last night and would have had no time to post on here I will need to think again as to his real life ID............maybe

Aye, it was good away 32 miles North.....I might come back!

But before then Morenish, your, and my, cousin, Mary will be here this morning so I better go see the coos..........
Not that Morenish and I are cousins yi unerstan' folks.........

[Bochan Mor]

4th Gen, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Have you ever heard of a Blackberry, well here in Trumpton we have 'Brambles', and they work a treat when you're on the hoof.

The bochans are shadowy figures, with more facets than the Toon clock, and still plenty of cohorts at the monument!!!!

[Snoddy]

Ladies and Gentleman, to whom should I send my account?

Let me explain: I was busy enjoying my well deserved retirement, and memory foam mattress, when the phone jumped from the cradle in the middle of the night. I dusted down my well worn black valise and gullibly headed for the Trumpton Riot, under the misapprehension that a frail pensioner had flopped to the floor.

Anyway, on arrival, I was pounced on by a throng of rabid OAPs, who ransacked my drug supply, intent on finding the elusive recreational drug of choice of the over 70s: 'Viagra'. No doubt you have heard the expression: 'When men were men, and sheep were nervous?' Well once the bag was relieved of its precious cargo, some of the visiting females in the company, also looked nervous.

Fortunately, the mixture of excessive Magners cider and the shift of blood from the brain to the nether regions, was enough to bring the culprits down like skittles and the ladies in the company were again able to breathe easily.

Anyway, after sticking a well deserved needle into each of their left buttocks, I gathered up my bag and headed for home, wondering who was picking up the tab for all these excesses, and who was going to remove their incontinence pads on arrival at their normal places of residence?

Will it be the Mull of Kintyre Music Festival, the Trumpton Fire Brigade, the local football club, the Campbeltown Music Festival, the Two Dutch Girls who were misguided into attending the event, HIE, Kintyre Community Forum, The Hugh Trousers Band, or that shameless Bochan Mor?

Answers please on a posting to this forum, sometime before it happens again. Now please show some respect, and give me peace!

[Hoopoe]

If no-one else will pick-up the tab, Dr S, then try putting in an application to the windfarm trust.

[Right Pongal]

If no-one else will pick-up the tab, Dr S, then try putting in an application to the windfarm trust.

For goodness sake Loop de Hoope, don't encourage him. He thinks that a prescription pad is a licence to print money, but I would suggest that he sticks his account in the same place that he prods his needles. Anyway, was this shiroy in Trumpton not jeest an extension of the bigger picture in Kintyre this weekend?

[Bochan Mor]

Where were you last night Morenish? thought you would have been rocking it up at the Trumpton Riot!! these young Carradale fellas were certainly full o' the nonsense!! you would have fitted right in up at the front..........bouncing!!

Aye Morenish, where the hell were you. We were relying on relieving you of a few pounds on the evening. Not that I'm saying that you need to loose a few pounds, you understand.

My 5th gen Suthen' daughter was right amongst it all and would not come home so I had to hing aboot till late late late......not that I was complaining, the atmosphere in Carradale Village hall was terrific.....even for sober suits like me

But, as the man I thought was Bochan Mor would have been helluva busy preparing and setting up the hall at 7.06 last night and would have had no time to post on here I will need to think again as to his real life ID............maybe

Aye, it was good away 32 miles North.....I might come back!........

4th Gen, you need to learn to Multi-task like us bochans. One wicked little bochanette was allegedly seen hiding cameras all over the hall, and Davie P. was seen snapping you as you raked through the bin bags like a Soothend Womble. It's maybe better that you don't find it now, as god knows what kind of pictures are on it. Another bochan trick is to run amok with other folks cameras, snapping at anything that looks at all compromising or scandalisable.

The photos usually take about a week to surface at the chemist in Longrow, but if it's digital, the evidence could already be all over the net.

[Bitter End]

Aye Bochan --its aall very weell tae print off the the majic lantern slide, but whin ye waander aboot strange toons showin it tae folk --sayin " see this photy fae the past ,takin at Watterfit a richt wheen o years ago,Ah kin the wan oan the left,the wan oan the right but Ah dinna ken the wan in the middle , dae ye ken him? " they jist stare at ye as if ye hid three heeds an iviry wan o thim covered in bloody big warts an plooks!! Ah'l jist bide ma time till Ahm back tae ceevilisation an thin creep aboot speirin quietly!l AAll wull be revealed!. ---- Soons as tho the jiggin wis awfy guid ! the usual wrecked ,half wrecked an those thet wir tryin tae git wrecked an the ithers who hid a richt guid time jist bein thimselves! Aye the weak ur easy led astray.

[morenish]

now now boys while you were all out makin merry mrs morenish an i sat by the cold fire and prayed for her fallen souls or sore soles?? whichever.

but naw a jeest couldny aford a ticket, i tried to get sombody tae buy a coo of me to help pay for it but didny manage it it time, i even tried to re- morgage the big park but couldny get enough for it.
it's easy seein the fishins good the now, why i even heard some folk are leaving their highly paid desk jobs to go back to it.

snoddy it must have been grand gettin to stick nedles in folk at your age, id send yer bill to the dutch lassies, they can pay half each, it's a grand thing to get money oot o europe!

now 4th beware the bramble!
it's full of as many prick-les as the bochan has face-ets.

bochan i have seen the future, i wis seein when folk will travel the legnth o the land to see ye sittin in the cruban scoffin drams an wearin a cowboy hat!
the folk that complain that all the old characters are gone are usually the biggest of them all.

now 4th ye had a visit from rid mary, how is she?
ach i feel for her poor mother birlinn in her kitchen,and writin letters to her god cameron in the hope her fallen daughter can be saved.
i'll need to get down for a visit, is soothen still there?
maybe i'll make it before the last coo in the area is sold, but i better hurry.

[Bochan Mor]

now now boys while you were all out makin merry mrs morenish an i sat by the cold fire and prayed for her fallen souls or sore soles?? whichever.

but naw a jeest couldny aford a ticket, i tried to get sombody tae buy a coo of me to help pay for it but didny manage it it time, i even tried to re- morgage the big park but couldny get enough for it.
it's easy seein the fishins good the now, why i even heard some folk are leaving their highly paid desk jobs to go back to it.

snoddy it must have been grand gettin to stick nedles in folk at your age, id send yer bill to the dutch lassies, they can pay half each, it's a grand thing to get money oot o europe!

now 4th beware the bramble!
it's full of as many jag-les as the bochan has face-ets.

bochan i have seen the future, i wis seein when folk will travel the legnth o the land to see ye sittin in the cruban scoffin drams an wearin a cowboy hat!
the folk that complain that all the old characters are gone are usually the biggest of them all.

now 4th ye had a visit from rid mary, how is she?
ach i feel for her poor mother birlinn in her kitchen,and writin letters to her god cameron in the hope her fallen daughter can be saved.
i'll need to get down for a visit, is soothen still there?
maybe i'll make it before the last coo in the area is sold, but i better hurry.

A lot of damn nonsense Morenish, you seemed well capable of filling the coffers of the landlord in Fawlty Towers, so I'm damn sure you could have made it to the jigging. I'm more than certain that you were worried that Mrs Morenish, having had a good sup at the brandy, would haul ye to yer two left feet and throw you round the dance floor.

Furthermore, you should take it as read that the current level of opimism at the fishing is nothing more than a passing gannet. As for folk leaving their cushie desk jobs to take up the 'Auld Trade', don't kid yerself. It's only right that you should go back for a look once in a while, so that you can give yourself a short, sharp reality check and recall what an erse of a job it really is.

Anyway, did you read that extract from the Scotsman newspaper of 1938, highlighted by Scots Lad?

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm? ... 6#comments[/quote]


'Spring-Heeled Jack' indeed! Anyway, anonymity was the watch word then, and it is now! So much so, that even the bochans of today, don't know which one of those snapped in Campbeltown around 1938 was their faither or grandfaither.

One things for sure though: 'Dark nights for Dark Deeds,' was always the cry, wae more than a twinkle in her eye.

Anyone recognize this garden at all, or the building in the background?

[morenish]

well, well i didna know yer uncle jack bochan was so famous he made into the papers?
however in those days folk were more law-abiding so any nonsense like that was a big event, so i suspect that uncle jack was just an amature compared to yersell.

mind you a vigilante gang sounds like a plan

[Zz Top]

Bochan Mor...I don't recognize the garden or building in the background. However, isn't this a picture of the itinerant clog shod Mongols that pitched their yurt up by the football pitch at the week end?

[4th gen Suthen']

You might think am gan droll with this one but bear with me!!

I am a big fan of the Rolling Stones and have read a lot about them over the years....naw as good as the Hugh Trowsers Band right enough........
I am sure that one time, long before the internet, I read that Jumping Jack Flash was based on a Spring Heeled Jack character that appeared in London around the mid 1930s....now it is more than possible that Campbeltown based young pranksters would have picked up on that and decided to create their own version......

In fact, I had the ID of said pranksters suggested to me today by a certain Suthen' wummin with good strong Carra Carra Carradale connections.......in fact that wummin has just appeared on Reporting Scotland......something about a new school in that Glasgow...the same wummin related to Morenish and masel'

Soo, J J Flash, S H Jack, HT Band and a GM school all in the one post......

I am gan droll right enough