Carradale

[Hurricane Jeck]

Wud yeez dae that up in Carradale? aye, I'm sure you would.......country folk are a' the same..............most o' them anyway

Ah well, 4th Gen Suthen, as I recall, most of the Slants were jeest as you say. Dacent, friendly country folk. On the ither hand, there wus aalways a few who wouldna gie ye a nod in the Sahaara and ithers that wid steal the eyes oot yer heid! I'm sure that it's no different today. If I wus trevellin' in those pairts I wid chist keep peakin' in the mirror to mek sure that the auld suilean wus still there

[Sanyanya]

One of the Old Carradale fishermen used to say: 'Watch the toonies; they'd steal the eyes oot yer heid, and come back for your blinkers!'

I must say, I never found them like that.

[4th gen Suthen']

Aye, soothen - men in cooboy boots, checks an denim - the wuman in glesga yon Kinky boots really got me!

Hoot? hoot HOOT???! a Largieside man on a Carradale thread accusing Bonnie S'then' of being an uncivilised outpost of Kintyre full of redneck, denim clad, country hay seed, check shirted hill billy, ferm boys.... ...

Southend is the cradle of civilistion in Kintyre......Scotland even........

Dunaverty where the first Scots set foot after their trip from Ireland, where St Columba also landed and layed down his footprints...where centuries later the Campbells hunted the MaDonalds all the way down from Rouhnahairn(guess at spelling Wetman ) and slaughtered them on the rock....The Massacre of Dunaverty, where Flora McCambridge spirited away a McD baby with the help of the one kind hearted Campbell guard.

Southend, once home of the Epidii and the original Keil school.
Keil cave where Robert the Bruce sheltered on his way to Rathlin, Keil grave yard, best, most atmospheric cemetary in the country, where 6 of my great grandparents lie. There is mory history between Muneroy and Carskiey than in most of rest of Kityre put together...
The Mull of Kintyre and all the history there...MoK is NOT anywhere South of Terbert! Dunavery Golf Club, which, as pointed out by our esteemed Web Master DavieP contains some of the best golfing views in Scotland.
Southend, home of Angus McVicar, Flori Loighnahan, Maggie Taggie of Langholm,Queen Esther Houston of Polliwilline caves. John McCorkindale OBE, Hector the Hero, champion golfer Belle Robertson the list goes on and on....but I wont.......! there is more I can add and might edit in as time goes on!

Largieside......hoot have you got? some story, (that I dont know and would like to hear actually) about some drookit fellow!

Carradale....what ever happened up there!!

I will step back and await an onslaught!! deserved perhaps!

Just FUSHING, sure yi know

'Mon S'then'

[Hurricane Jeck]

Aye, soothen - men in cooboy boots, checks an denim - the wuman in glesga yon Kinky boots really got me!

Hoot? hoot HOOT???! a Largieside man on a Carradale thread accusing Bonnie S'then' of being an uncivilised outpost of Kintyre full of redneck, denim clad, country hay seed, check shirted hill billy, ferm boys.... ...

Southend is the cradle of civilistion in Kintyre......Scotland even........

Dunaverty where the first Scots set foot after their trip from Ireland, where St Columba also landed and layed down his footprints...where centuries later the Campbells hunted the MaDonalds all the way down from Rouhnahairn(guess at spelling Wetman ) and slaughtered them on the rock....The Massacre of Dunaverty, where Flora McCambridge spirited away a McD baby with the help of the one kind hearted Campbell guard.

Southend, once home of the Epidii and the original Keil school.
Keil cave where Robert the Bruce sheltered on his way to Rathlin, Keil grave yard, best, most atmospheric cemetary in the country, where 6 of my great grandparents lie. There is mory history between Muneroy and Carskiey than in most of rest of Kityre put together...
The Mull of Kintyre and all the history there...MoK is NOT anywhere South of Terbert! Dunavery Golf Club, which, as pointed out by our esteemed Web Master DavieP contains some of the best golfing views in Scotland.
Southend, home of Angus McVicar, Flori Loighnahan, Maggie Taggie of Langholm,Queen Esther Houston of Polliwilline caves. John McCorkindale OBE, Hector the Hero, champion golfer Belle Robertson the list goes on and on....but I wont.......! there is more I can add and might edit in as time goes on!

Largieside......hoot have you got? some story, (that I dont know and would like to hear actually) about some drookit fellow!

Carradale....what ever happened up there!!

I will step back and await an onslaught!! deserved perhaps!

Just FUSHING, sure yi know

'Mon S'then'

I'm sure the chentleman knows that no one could dispute S'then's pivotal role in the history of the Scottish Nation. Indeed there are upstarts in Mud Argyll who need to be reminded o' that truth when they start peddlin' their muschief (Dalriada Festival, anyone?). The thing is they are tryin' to re-write history for their own ends, same as yersel' 4th Gen (if I may use your familar name). When the denged infudels arrived frae Ayrshire wi' their ethnic cleansing that wus the end o' wan chapter and the start o' another which eventually led to today's rid-necked phenomenon. Or so I've been told! If Dougie were here he wud tell ye himsel!

[Hurricane Jeck]

Avast Shupmates! Auld Jeck begs yer pardon, but it iss quite likely that ye wullna hear frae me for some time. The nurses have cottoned on tae the fact that Ah've been disappearin' oot the home this las' wheen o'days and they are on tae me! I Chust wanted tae say that Ah've enjoyed the baur wi' yus aall and if I'm spared to the Terbert Fair I might make another breenge at it. Ah'll jeest say Soraidh do Muinntir for noo before they come and get me, and by the way, those of you who thocht I shared a name wi' thon nice Meester Mercury got it ............. Ach it's aal richt nirse, Ah'll mak ma own wey intae the back o' the van......................

[4th gen Suthen']

Avast Shupmates! Auld Jeck begs yer pardon, but it iss quite likely that ye wullna hear frae me for some time. The nurses have cottoned on tae the fact that Ah've been disappearin' oot the home this las' wheen o'days and they are on tae me! I Chust wanted tae say that Ah've enjoyed the baur wi' yus aall and if I'm spared to the Terbert Fair I might make another breenge at it. Ah'll jeest say Soraidh do Muinntir for noo before they come and get me, and by the way, those of you who thocht I shared a name wi' thon nice Meester Mercury got it completely ............. Ach it's aal richt nirse, Ah'll mak ma own wey intae the back o' the van......................

Well Jeck, I will be............hoora surprised if that was your last posting on this forum..............hoot yi daein'? are you heading back out South by Java Head where they have no access to the internet? or will you make a reappearance wae wan o' thay nomdi plooms? well sure yi know us 4th gen S'theners will hae yi sussed oot Ally Toot Sweet !!

[4th gen Suthen']

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I'm sure the chentleman knows that no one could dispute S'then's pivotal role in the history of the Scottish Nation. Indeed there are upstarts in Mud Argyll who need to be reminded o' that truth when they start peddlin' their muschief (Dalriada Festival, anyone?). The thing is they are tryin' to re-write history for their own ends, same as yersel' 4th Gen (if I may use your familar name). When the denged infudels arrived frae Ayrshire wi' their ethnic cleansing that wus the end o' wan chapter and the start o' another which eventually led to today's rid-necked phenomenon. Or so I've been told! If Dougie were here he wud tell ye himsel! [/quote]

Thankgoodness I'm 4th gen S'then'!

At least the Ayrshire infidels meant we got rid of "that" gaelic a loat sooner than the Northern parts of Kintyre ( Davie, have you not got a "ducks for cover" smilie!)..I'm sure the coarser and flaaaatter accent of Campbeltown and points South is due to the influx. The more heilan' lilt from up the Lergie and and Carradale is surely due to the fact that the poorer land there was not wanted by that band of white settelers, the gaelic lasted a lot longer and the remnants of it are in the accents........and I must say the very different but similar accents of East and West Kintyre and Terbert are faaaaaaaantastic!

Serious point, does anyone agree with my accent theory? maybe it is a well known theory....
hoot dae I know? naetin'

[morenish]

here 4th, if i may be so bold, why is that the man to bring christianity to the (w)hole of scotland didny linger doon there very long?
did he rightfully think it was a lost cause in that pert o the wurld?
efter all the man that did ahhll the miracles lived a good few years afore that.
so maybe we need to get a stronger force to cast out the heathens, maybe off the end of the old lifboat slip.

but as for the wicker man thing i hear the bakers are clean sold out o firelighters, but nickle n dime have just got in an artic load.
and, and i also heard a whisper that an ex largiesider who used to live in the wee dale was caught dumping his load of logs off at the top of alt crooch ready for the building, and without even asking duigie.
this wicker man thing could get out of hand, whether hugh,pugh barny, mcgrew etc. can do anything about it remains to be seen

[Snoddy]

[quote=" by the way, those of you who thocht I shared a name wi' thon nice Meester Mercury got it completely ............. Ach it's aal richt nirse, Ah'll mak ma own wey intae the back o' the van......................[/quote]


Who's Freddy Mercury? The only mercury that I ever saw in Carradale was in my thermometer. Well hopefully the nurses will keep a closer eye on the Hurricane this time, and maybe cut him a little bit of slack. After all 'Bellow & Bradley both boldly lied....the crime was murder one, and guess who testified'?

[Bochan Mor]

Looks like auld Jeck's been posted North for a spell. There'll be no modem connection available in the B&B in Berneraigh then. I thought the finest vessels in the tred would be equipped with satellite links to the W.W.W.

Right Bubbly, its safe to come back oot the coop again, Jecks away to the Minch for a week or two, and hopefully the Soothender is on his way back doon to the land of the Sooth moothers. Aye and imagine condemnin oor mither tongue up here, what a damn cheeck.

Well maybe me and the Heidless Horseman should have stayed well clear of Southend. We thought that the lights were on but nobody in. It turns out that there was someone in and now he's come chapping at the doors. It took him some time to reach us, but even those modern tractors are denged hard to steer when you drive them in the high gears.

Maybe he'll take Sanyanya away with him to help him thin his turnips. Morenish is bound to need a hand with the silage as well, and that would allow us to leave our sheds unlocked for the summer.

As for the firelighters, Morenish should know by now, that the cockabendies from Airds Wid and some old newspapers are all that's required.

[morenish]

oh mo cherc! bochan i canny get into airds wid nowadays as ma zimmer keeps trippin on the breers, an damn sore it is too.

all my silage was in ages ago an whats a locked shed but sheer temptation!

an here did you no ken that there is no satelite links north of oban, according to the bbc weather maps everything north of that is over the horizon

[The Scouder]

Hey Gary! This is the Voice of the Scouder calling from overseas - hope you can hear me. Over and Out. The gales buffeted me all over the shop and I've ended up on the Emerald Isle, but while I was waiting for the tide to turn I was at the intelligence gathering and found the following tried and tested formula which you could use to bring hordes of towrists (not to mention Toonies and curious Jakes) up to Trumpton for a long weekend!

Puck Fair Aug 10-12, Killorglin, Co Kerry

A puck (billy goat) is placed on a stand in the middle of Killorglin while people drink to its health for three days. Any excuse. There is also a beauty pageant to find the Queen of Puck. Seriously.
Details: www.puckfair.ie.

Sounds like the perfect warm up for the MOK Music Festival!

[4th gen Suthen']

Hey Gary! This is the Voice of the Scouder calling from overseas - hope you can hear me. Over and Out. The gales buffeted me all over the shop and I've ended up on the Emerald Isle, but while I was waiting for the tide to torn I was at the intelligence gathering and found the following tried and tested formula which you could use to bring hordes of towrists (not to mention Toonies and curious Jakes) up to Trumpton for a long weekend!

Puck Fair Aug 10-12, Killorglin, Co Kerry

A puck (billy goat) is placed on a stand in the middle of Killorglin while people drink to its health for three days. Any excuse. There is also a beauty pageant to find the Queen of Puck. Seriously.
Details: www.puckfair.ie.

Sounds like the perfect warm up for the MOK Music Festival!

Och........... youz have all jeest lost me again...............thought I was just about getting to grips with this thread.....nearly!....then comes a wile strrrrrream of postings that leave me perplexed ...fair perplexed...Bochan Morenish .....but sure you know that Columba was not allowed to stay in Southend, he wanted to! but he was banished from Ireland...for MURDER and had to settle somewhere out of sight of his beloved homeland,peety mind! he moved on to Loch Ness and then St Mirren...ehhh St Kilda............naw...............Iona

Piles of logs, Carradale secrets, doctors joining in...............Scouders.........

Jeest need to start a Southend thread......threeed!

But I thought I was the only fermer on the forum...........

[Ticketty Boo!]

There is also a beauty pageant to find the Queen of Puck. Seriously.

Sounds like the perfect warm up for the MOK Music Festival!

How would the fair maidens of Middle East Kintyre take to being paraded up and down the quay in honour of one of the point goats whilst the male population (who had been on the sauce for three days - but wha wid notice a difference onyways?) had a good goat gloat at them before one of them was crowned Miss Trumpton?

The thought makes the lifeboat night pale into insignificance!

[GarySutherland]

You've got to hand it to them Kerrymen - they sure know how to throw a party! Maybe its something that could be integrated into the summer Lifeboat Day down at the harbour? ;o)

Oh and there's at least one other 'Gentleman Farmer' lurking on here that I know about.

How was the Guinness, Scouder? It's been far too long since I was last across in Ireland. Was hoping to get across for the NW200 this year but it wasn't to be. Maybe next year.

Cheers
Gary