Carradale

[Ticketty Boo!]

I;m afraid we'll all be driving round today. Those waves coming over the sea wall at Ardrossan were just a wee bitty too much.

Twas high jeenks watching the MV Isle of Arran trying to berth against that west wind.

I'll be in The Glen fer seturday nicht.

[Bitter End]

Aye J D guid picture o the only man Ah ken thet uses auld binoculars fur fush findin!Ah am guessin thet wis the day he thocht he'd fun a big coallie an it wis jist the remains o an auld wader!! At least if he's no bringin her intae Waterfit you wull no be needin tae rescue him this hoaliday!

[jdcarra]

Aye J D guid picture o the only man Ah ken thet uses auld binoculars fur fush findin!Ah am guessin thet wis the day he thocht he'd fun a big coallie an it wis jist the remains o an auld wader!! At least if he's no bringin her intae Waterfit you wull no be needin tae rescue him this hoaliday!

Aye Bitter, that's Ticketty Boo and family awa back hame on Saturday mornin withoot coming tae say cheerio. The week just flew in.

We had a few wee beers and a yarn in the Glen on the Thursday nite. A think he was a wee bit oh boat sick ah week withoot the yellow submarine.

Couldna get oot tae poach ah wur fish fae the back oh the point this visit an wull naw see him this summer either as he's gonnae try the Cornwall Riviera. Ach well, ye can change a lot oh things, but naw the weather, so here's hoping that next year a'll be fine for the Ticketty Boo and crew.

[Ticketty Boo!]

The Ticketty Boo crew came up to the vehicular and caravan retirement ground Tosh's Tip tae say cheerie bye - but ye wurnae in. How else did that sign get under yer windae wiper?

I had three days fishing at various marks around the point with only a long spined sea scorpion to show for it (How can I add the fantastic pic here?).

The weather was keich Tue, Wed, Thu and Saturday but this didn't keep us in. Had a great walk across the point to Goldie Bay on Friday and burnt a load of rubbish that was washed up. This is where we found the highly expensive sign written masterpiece of a boat nameplate that we kindly returned to JD Towers afore we left.

Fished out of Girvan yesterday at Ailsa Craig. Took 16 pollack up to 6 1/2lbs. kept three and returned the rest. The seals did a runner with three of them on the line.

[Ticketty Boo!]

Look what I pulled frae the Port Righ side o' the point................



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[Ticketty Boo!]

The guid shup Ticketty Boo! passed her first major sea test wi' flying colours on Sunday, Ardrossan to pladda lighthouse in 42 minutes. A guid day fishing, pollack to 8lb and a nice wee sail around the Holy Isle on the way home for the crew. Had great views of the seabed in 42 ft of water. I've never, ever seen it so clear at that depth.

Whut's happenin wi the Trumpton thread then? Are they aw oot at the lambin? It's gawn affy quiet in here.......

Helloooooooooooooooooo?????????

Helloooooooooooooooooo?????????

[morenish]

hellooooooooooooo
hellooooooooooooo (echo!)

aye nobodys home what witht he weather bein so good since you left..................

[Right Pongal]

hellooooooooooooo
hellooooooooooooo (echo!)

aye nobodys home what witht he weather bein so good since you left..................

For goodness sake Morenish, can you please keep the noise doon on here. Wae all this shouting and public scandalizing, you'll waken the bochans and their damned ilk. Some bloody clown has already raised thon Bobbly Juck, and it not even past Whit yet. I expect he's been sent here by the Highland Health Board to examine the nappers of all and sundry on here. They'll need a hell of a budget for this lot, and that's before they even look at the penal colonies over the West Side of the Ocean. Aye this touch of spring could easily get the sap rising in the striplings that skirt the sleepy little village, but what finally forced the lads of the Hughmungous Breeks Band to jetison the rubber duck into the nearest sewer, and how many tides did it take to wash him back through the Pentland Firth and down through the Kyles, Sounds of Mull, Luing, Jura and Gigha, round 'The Horn' and back into the burn?

Are you sure you've naw been overdoing the phospates and nitrogen on the fields again? Even the nettles are trying to turn hellofa pea-green. If the run off leaches into the burn, it will bolster the effects of the bright sunlight, over-enriching the Kilbrannan Sound and enticing those bloody scouders to the upper strata. Then all will definitely be lost!

'Away' you're thinking! But the first mussel spat has already settled on this years crop of broad-leaf kelp, which has been sprouting like the devil wae all these sparkling rays of UV.

And another thing, have you had the emissions checked on thon auld tractor of yours lately? The reek is absolutely fearful, and I could damn nearly have sworn that there was a smell of chips the last time you chugged past. Have you been dabling in thon eco-diesel again? You know the mess that it made of Mrs Pongal's pristine washing the last time you swung on the throttle? Did nobody tell you that you're supposed to filter out the bits of batter and crisped haddock tails? You'd better drop in a cran basket of chopped logs next time you're passing the door, to see if she'll turn a blind eye instead of issuing you with a thick ear!

Here....... It's nearly the Morn's Morn, I'm off to ma scratcher. She's already gently lifting the ceiling and I'll need to get a few big Z's in before she hits 9 on the Richter scale.

[Annie]

Aye, yer right there Pongal! When the sun hits the Dale awe kinna wierd and fascinating things stert tae heppin' an' even thon nettles and sticky willies are in on it! Geesh!!!!![/code]

[morenish]

now pongal ye've rumbled me right enough, yer smert,smert, eco-deisel it is!
and no wonder at the price o the rid stuff, waan more pence a litre an i'll be lookin oot the old horse harnes and away buyin a good clydesdale, don mcFarlanes youg fella got a nice wan an is training it to ploo wi the best o them, but if ye'r complainin aboot the reek oot the old tractor wait till ye smell a horse fed on an eco-friendly diet!
it'll blow the washin not so clean of the line!

BUT there iss no run off of nitrogen from my fields, if only ye knew the price o'it

and why has nobody managed to make a scouder recipe?
it's the only thing left living in kilbranan sound nowadays anyway, or so yon buccers at the fishing would have you believe, scouder scampi? easy swallowed and hotter than a chile!
scouder chowder? sounds better than it tastes.

OR dry the buchers, grind them down an use them as a midge deterent ie: scouder powder!?!

now that might be a good way of stopping brer bloody fox from keeping my lambing percentage low.

[morenish]

snoddy has just informed me that sitting on a fresh scouder is good for folk wi piles, it doesny actually cure the piles but by god it stops folk complainin aboot them

[Snoddy]

Quite correct Mr Morenish,

Although not very well documented, scouders have been used in traditional West Highland Medicine for centuries. Joiners used to keep dried scouder in a jar as part of their tool-kit. If they accidentally struck their thumb with a hammer, they would immediately rub some dried scouder on the affected digits, then take leave to the lavatory for some gratuitous mituration.

Within no more than 93 seconds, the sensation of pain from their throbbing thumb's was no more than a fleeting, historical inconvenience. By the time the effects of the scouders had worn off, the worst of the throbbing had dulled to a mere touch-sensitivity.

[Bochan Mor]

The guid shup Ticketty Boo! passed her first major sea test wi' flying colours on Sunday, Ardrossan to pladda lighthouse in 42 minutes. A guid day fishing, pollack to 8lb and a nice wee sail around the Holy Isle on the way home for the crew. Had great views of the seabed in 42 ft of water. I've never, ever seen it so clear at that depth.

Whut's happenin wi the Trumpton thread then? Are they aw oot at the lambin? It's gawn affy quiet in here.......

Helloooooooooooooooooo?????????

Helloooooooooooooooooo?????????

Tickety Boo, your as bad as Gary, bidding for those old tatty postcards on Ebay. You know, the ones that were rejected by the public at large at the time. However, you'll need to write a stern letter of condemnation to that wummin that's sellin it though, because if that photo was takien in the 1960s, I've been hibernating longer than I realised. There's a few clues in the photo, so you'd better go and consult yer close confidantes & relations.

As for the scouders: Some of the young crofter girls working in the guest houses at Portrigh used to drop them into the wellies in the porches at night, then pour them back onto the beach. If they were being really wicked, they would also wipe them on the door handles of the Rover 2000s and Hillman Humbers. The poor unsuspecting visitors would haul the dry boots on in the morning, re-activating the stings at the first sign of sweat. With well-worn short trousers ironed into a sharp crease, being the perferred attire of our fashion victims, it wasn't long before their socks had worked their way down to the heel of the boot, allowing the tendrils of the red peril to warm the already sun-scorched calves of the unsuspecting.

Aye the village was full of students of Bochanography in those days.

Where oh where have they all gone??

P.S. I much preferred JDCarra's photos of the Waverley. At least they had Carradale in them!

[Ticketty Boo!]

G'Day Bochan, Mrs Bochan and the Bochanettes.

I've been spending a few coppers picking up some old postcards of Trumpton. I've got about a dozen so far. The idea is to have them all mounted in the one frame eventually. The oldest of Shore cottages goes back to 1905.

Can anybody tell me about where the Trumpton coat of arms came from (two longships and two of something else that I cannae remember?)? I've got it on a wee tiny milk jug that I picked up. It's also on a badge that's for sale on ebay just now.

Do a search of ebay for "Carradale" and you'll coma across the badge, with the coat of arms.

[Bochan Mor]

Aye Tickety Boo, I thought that you would have known the story of the two longships. David Blaine wouldn't have a look in here!

Magnus Barefoot commissioned the building of two longships at the boatyard at Portrigh. Both vessels were built to the exact same design and both named: 'Eldorado'. One was sailed to Tarbert under the cover of darkness and covered in branches just S.E. of the harbour. The other was sailed round the Mull to the West Loch. The following night, Magnus and his team of rapists and plunderers, in front of a large crowd of willing Jakes, began to drag the second vessel from West to East. When the last 'Dooker' keeled over wae the combination of copius amounts of Springbank and Aquavit, the Vikings hid the 2nd boat in the bushes and walked over to the East Loch, where they uncovered the vessel that they had sailed up the Kilbrannan Sound and then into Loch Fyne.

When the Jakes finally woke the following afternoon, the victorious norsemen were weilding their tools of destruction and yahoeing like nobodies business & declaring Kintyre an island and hence tricking Somerled out of his lands. The whereabouts of the 2nd boat has been passed down from father to son, and with a good strong bushman's saw, it can be reached in around 20 minutes from the head of the Loch.

Now wouldn't that be a photo???