Carradale

[Bochan Mor]

i just hope he was on his own an did not take any young fellas with him to teach them bochánaich!

For goodness sake Morenish, do you think I'd set off on a mission of stealth with conspirators that weren't fully versed in the art of bochánaich?

now cheneral if you theenk were aw talkin keach up here it's chust that you dont unerstaun hoot it means.

As for the General, you'll need to treat him with a little more respect. He not just some 'Blaw in' from Mull or Perthshire. No, he has had 23 carat crofter blood coursing through his veins from conception. Not only that, he is well versed in the 'Auld Trade' and could usefully be employed in training potential Bochans, infact, no doubt there's an element of that passed onto the next generation of the General's!

Anyway, time to start the engine and start steaming again. 'Throw the ropes off young Bochans, were heading for home'!

[general jack o'niell]

i've tried teaching him to mend, but he canna get the knack of holding a needle and the knife in the same hand, not his fault he takes after his namesake who wis never better than average with a needle, wile three and five leggers everywhere, that and he's right handed too so thats a setback, its a wellknown fact that all the best menders were lefthanded, either that or they nodded off at the wheel more often, it's hard to remember which?

but he does have a comb and a five gall drum of gel for his hair, takes that off the black side, thon treehugging cuzzin was never without a quiff. caught him throwing my good spike aboot the garden the last week, he has no idea how much cakeface charged me for it when i was manufacturing the climbing net and various rope swings in the garden.

still if he's ever seen with anything other than the odd mackeral off the end of the quay he'll get his erse booted, there has been talk between him and young mahogony heid about big money in the summer, a day of dry heaving will soon put a stop to that

[morenish]

now bochan thats a bit nasty sayin poor garys just a blaw in from mull, there's no need to be nasty.
as for the cheneral i can tell by his last post he must be a reláshun!
mind you i have no dale blood in me at all, at all, pure largieside an all the better for't.

now general if you were careful like me,surely you widna need to be good at mendin?
mind you i do naethin else these days
but it'll take more than a needle to mend the black shadow.

[general jack o'niell]

care was never a strong point with me, tho there was only one that got the better of me, a mid water that the jostler decided to take the wrong side of the gantocks bouy while doogie was off on his holidays.

never did get shot of my "L" plates and the sea is a safer place for it, in early 1990 an aunt gave me a brass plaque with the inscription "i am the captain of this ship, and i have my wife's permission to say so!"

it's only now been hung up above the door of my shed, never felt safe from ridicule before now to stick it up anywhere, even if i did finish top of dougal's class in the school, saw him mentioned on here and i was just thinking about him the other week after his recent bereavement, a true gentleman and the only face i looked forward to seeing standing on the quay at the west loch or tayinloan.

i was helping the boy with his maths and only managed to confuse him further with my secant, cosecant, tangent, cotangent etc etc, i never understood it either, butt hen i only lasted three days at the nautical college, i was doing great till i had to take an eye test, apparently you can be (edited to protect the innocent)as long as you have good eyesight.

no discovery channel cameos for me!!!!

[Beachcomber]

now bochan thats a bit nasty sayin poor garys just a blaw in from mull,

Oi! Yer buggars! I'm from Northants.

[morenish]

well,well at last gary's come out of the closet!

[witchnettle]

its only a glitch he'll be back in it on monday x

[Beachcomber]

its only a glitch he'll be back in it on monday x

Watch it, you. I've got that windfarm trust grant application all typed out and everything...

[Beachcomber]

well,well at last gary's come out of the closet!

Perlease! We don't have a closet, we have a walk-in wardrobe.

[general jack o'niell]

things must be looking up in the village, i happened to be in a local supermarket at lunchtime on saturday, my quiet time between the end of soccer am and the start of the live footie. innocently buying some milk, there was a kinda small cluster of villagers at the next till, ok two, one buying some refreshments which he had cunningly disguised as shopping by adding a punnet of rasps, but the other? a lot less hirsute since i last saw him, a bit distracted with his poke of crisps, so distracted that he never even recognised me when i greeted him, neither did but that might be another story.

anyway the point of the matter is the payment method of said second man, "that'll be such and such" said the girl and casual as you like he whipped out a £100 note and passed it over before going back to his poke of crisps, its that long since i'd seen one that i nearly lost my cool and the gang calm exterior "there might be a world revolving around me, but it's none of my concern" demeanour. i very nearly applauded, and thinking to myself he no doubt had several more in his pooch for every shop he would enter that day, with not a care, as if they were like shillings to be thrown at a scatter.

he's always been a class act, a gentleman, but he better get his eyes tested before we next meet or my cheery hello will be replaced with invective.

now don't all rush to say "it was me!!!"

[Right Pongal]

It certainly wasnae me General.

Morenish immediately sprang to mind with the return on his recent capital investment being reported extensively on here, but I wouldn't have thought that you would have been acquaint with him. No, it must have been a fisherman, but with you saying that he was a gentlemen, I could only think of retired or deceased ones!

It must be the spring in the air, with Gary finally coming out of his 'walk in wardrobe'. If bubbly jock was here, he'd probably be suggesting that this was to empty the 'keech collectors' at Sally's Walk, whether they needed it or not. Ach well, I'd better get away and get the ham on, I'm sterving and nobody else is going to do it!

[general jack o'niell]

he may have been, might still be? and he is only a year older than my self, in his youth he was one vowel short of a flashing blade, clever that!!!!

but he's a gentleman alright

[Right Pongal]

he may have been, might still be? and he is only a year older than my self, in his youth he was one vowel short of a flashing blade, clever that!!!!

but he's a gentleman alright

Did he used to be the lead singer in Thin Lizzy?

[general jack o'niell]

now your pushing it, either that or its yourself and your viewing your youth thru rose coloured bifocals

[white settler]

hi i've just moved to your little village and would like to join your forum, but i'm haveing a problem understanding some of the words what are "keech collectors"?