Carradale

[Pete Reek]

Maybe it wuz watchin a the high jinks the cooncil wur uptae. Fancy trellers an a the bloody rest o it but hee haw done.

It seems therr wuz a hoorafa panic aboot an oil slick in Trumpton Harbour but it wuzna therr when they got tae it. Instead o that they dumped half o Langa shore on a cuppla gallon that had leaked oota drum in sumbdies yerd. Ah think therr wuz a ferr pile o alledgedlies knockin aboot intae the bargain, but the natives o Trumptonia lakely ken merr aboot it than me.

Ah think wur roamin reporter must've been summplace else or we wid haev had pictures afore noo. C'mon JD, finger oot, finger oot.

[Buzz Lightyear]

Spent a while yesterday afternoon watching a Basking Shark circling off Carradale Harbour as it slowly made its way up the Sound. It was quite a way out but still managed to get this pic:


Anyone else see it, maybe further down or up the Sound?

thats a great white is it no?

[Beachcomber]

thats a great white is it no?

That's right - Cornish Great White.

[general jack o'niell]

maybe its looking for its tag that it lost on the other side of the clyde, there wisna a car with ayrshire plates sitting in the pier carpark was there?

if you'd waited a bit you'd a seen howard "last of the hunters" McCrindle coming a long in a wee boat, wearing his "i love sharks, so ah do!" Tshirt, in his guise as a lover of marine life for the research station that lost the tag. you should have asked the basker if he'd enjoyed his day trip to embra for the festival, baskers are well known lovers of single cell life forms, hence the reason it was in carradale in the first place!!!!

[morenish]

carradale police station is to be upgraded to two cells because there is so much "life" up here

[general jack o'niell]

thats double the biological make up of your average trumptonite!!!

[Right Pongal]

What's all this nonsense about presenting a play in the village hall about catchin herrin:

Speaking about it, singing about it and showing auld pictures about it. I'm damn sure that the general would join me in saying that it would suit them far better to get out and catch some of them for the home trade.

Oh to be hauling the corks wae yer hands and all other vulnerable parts tingling from the finest scouder stings from along the Bennan!

Take damn good note Morenish, this does not involve extracting the bung from your favourite sherry bottle wae the remnants of your 2nd set of pearly white teeth. I'm sure I read that whisky is on the menu for the benefit of some of my peers. Not that I touch the stuff mind, but there's a few question marks hanging over some of my auld school chums and or their widows.

Mind you, it would damn nearly be worth the exhorberent entrance fee to taste them fried in oatmeal or dipped in flour once again. Do you think that there's any housewife left in the village that knows how to 'pot' them?

Not a bit of it I would say. They think potting is something that happens at the pool table in the Crubhan.

OK, then I'll go and wade waist deep in scales and pick a few herring for auld times sake. Just remember there'll be no whistling up the wind or talk of doorkies, long tails, red fish or the likes once you cross the thresh hold of the hall. What about the old door wae the boat and plough, surely they could open that back up for the occassion.

I would like to make a wee suggestion to the organizers if I may:

Make damn sure that no women with even a hint of red in her hair gets over the door and certainly no where near the stage. Terribly unlucky altogether. Mabe they could set up an array of deck lights at the ticket desk and check for even a scatter of hairs with a coppery hue.

Ach here, I'm away to look out the old doper and seaboots. I might even scrape off the remnants of the scales and scrape out the Old Bogey Roll from my pipe.....

[jdcarra]

Audio/Visual production in Carradale Village Hall on Saturday 25th August at 7.30pm. Come along and hear/see life as a ring net fisherman seeking the silver darlings. Tickets £7 with other entertainment included.

[Bochan Mor]

What's all this nonsense about presenting a play in the village hall about catchin herrin:

Make damn sure that no women with even a hint of red in her hair gets over the door and certainly no where near the stage. ....

Don't you be worrying yourself Auld Pongal. I have it on good authority that 'Tormohr Rock Steady' have been hired to do the bouncing and any rid headed women and baffoons will be turned on their heels at the door. Tickets will be limited in proportion to the number of herring caught by the Remembrance the night before. The men at the monument have been drafted in to overhaul the net a couple of times before it's shot.

I see the Herald has been plagurising the forum again, with Morenish's joke: 'Use both hands' getting a fine airing altogether. Hopefully the royalties will cover the cost of this winter's firelighters.

[general jack o'niell]

that looks interesting, pity my passport has run out!!!

[morenish]

hell have you to show yer pasport at the stargate as well???!!
should be a good night, as there was always more herring caught between the door of the hall and the burn than ever swum in kilbrannan sound!

[Beachcomber]

I gather tickets for this are more or less sold out now but you might be able to lay hands on the odd spare if you're lucky. Should be a good night.

[Bochan Mor]

that looks interesting, pity my passport has run out!!!

Interesting?

Why would you want to go looking at a lantern show wae photos of old boats like the Jasmine before the new wheelhouse and snaps of those that are long gone but not forgotten? Decks of pristinely kept and shapely vessels awash wae herring and scales are not everyone's cup of tea.

Mind you, I heard them saying in the bakers this morning that they might have to hire a marquee to get all the Ayrshire and Tarbert men in!

If it wasnae for the fact that I fancy a good feed o the silver darlings, a wouldna bother ma erse. I wonder if they've got any wae roe?

[general jack o'niell]

theres an odd yin from doon the road too, you might go in, find them in your seat, having first reported you to the hallkeeper for not having a ticket or for having a hipflask with you. you canna miss them, they'll be seated and seen the show at least an hour before the doors open!!!!

having first lifted their ticket money from under the bed

as for the stargate? no passport needed, just a wee private word in the right ear, i canna be doin with guesswork, all identities remain as desired, having told me of course, mind you, theres been a few conversations on the private band a good while back now, that i wasn't meant to hear, the old technology and a box with buttons, that could be taken into account, seeing as i have that old elephant hide, midgie immune skin, and the memory too, just like auld davie!!!

[morenish]

general yer mixin the technology here, stargate folk needin to make trunk calls...........?
mind yer lugs in the gale next week