Carradale

[Right Pongal]

Keech up the good work Gary: The absence of landmines has made this area Right Pongal again. You can even walk with open toed sandals................ if it's Halloween!

[LO]

people are taking them home to use as freezer bags

I suppose this is the 21st Century equivalent of the thrifty ones in the village who used to recycle their tea bags.
Things have obviously taken a turn for the worst up by!

[general jack o'niell]

what do you mean used to? do you mean the advent of GPS has seen the tradition of pegging them up to the decca ariel die out? you used to be able to recognise a carradale boat just by the rows of teabags drying in the sun, they looked like a portavogie fleet in the second week of july, all that was missing were the flags and the undersize prawns and fish.

we'll live to regret the throwaway society, i assure you

[Sweltered]

what do you mean used to? do you mean the advent of GPS has seen the tradition of pegging them up to the decca ariel die out? you used to be able to recognise a carradale boat just by the rows of teabags drying in the sun, they looked like a portavogie fleet in the second week of july, all that was missing were the flags and the undersize prawns and fish.

Hmmmm many's a night I poured "rice" into a McConnachie box....

[general jack o'niell]

did you use yesterdays paper to line the bottom of the box so they wouldn't fall thru the seams? or a clam bag in the basket when your washing them so the "big yins" don't scoot oot thru the holes

[the special one]

cant remember u catching too many general!!!

[Ticketty Boo!]

The guid ship Ticketty Boo!II will be heading into Trumpton later today from Troon with a crew of Bruttains hardiest wenches aboard. Come by for an extended tour of the gracious facilities an a baur or two.

[Beachcomber]

Might well see you for a pint of Ireland's finest at lunchtime then, TB.

[Ticketty Boo!]

Who stole the water from the river? Was it them Bochans? Couldn't pull the vessel down water out of the carra until 6.45 last night, about two hours into the flood. A wee bit bumpy on the way round, but we got back to Troon (in the dark) in 1hr 35 mins from Trumpton. Those nice Coastguard chappies gave us a shout to say that a picknick bench had been spotted in the vicinity earlier in the day and we should look out for it. Probably impossible to spot in broad daylight let alone darkness I'm guessing?

Had a nice lunch in the Glen and then it was short sleeve weather all afternoon.

On a more serious note, heard a siren come down the Skipness Rd and travel through to the East side of the village in the late afternoon. I'm hoping nobody was seriously affected?

[jdcarra]

Who stole the water from the river? Was it them Bochans? Couldn't pull the vessel down water out of the carra until 6.45 last night, about two hours into the flood. A wee bit bumpy on the way round, but we got back to Troon (in the dark) in 1hr 35 mins from Trumpton. Those nice Coastguard chappies gave us a shout to say that a picknick bench had been spotted in the vicinity earlier in the day and we should look out for it. Probably impossible to spot in broad daylight let alone darkness I'm guessing?

Had a nice lunch in the Glen and then it was short sleeve weather all afternoon.

On a more serious note, heard a siren come down the Skipness Rd and travel through to the East side of the village in the late afternoon. I'm hoping nobody was seriously affected?

Someone just pulled the plug on you.

Nice new boat, all mod cons aboard,experienced skipper , but you forgot to check your tides with all the excitement of coming to Trumpton . Too long a stay in the west end watering house. Next time we'll put a notice up, "Closed to pirates from across the water".

Next time give us a bit more notice and we'll have a dredger on standby

Glad you got home safely.

ps. siren was a ambulance, nothing serious.

[general jack o'niell]

the correct grammar is too much, not too many, as in can't remember you catching too much rice" in reference to small prawns, and yes on that score your right, several reasons

A) the crew and i include myself here, would get nosebleeds if we ventured further than the bottom of the D sector.

B) we never kept any we did catch, the uncle had a stock phrase for such occasions "you'll get the jile if you land these!!!"

C) we only ever heard stories about wee prawns, we always thought it was an urban myth and that they didn't really exsist, i certainly never saw any up inside the back of the holy isle or across at the chuirn, not even on the odd "evening and morning" sortee across the flat or in the gigha sound

much like the big prawns the other side of the boom, i never saw any there either!!!!

not for us the 1:1 ratio that some seemed to thrive on, how else do you think i managed to retire at 32?

[the special one]

from what i can see the "catchers" that kept the "wee prawns" that u wld get the jile for are still catchn the wee yins and lining their pocket's! and the one's that threw them back are jist sittn on their bums lookn at a computer screen! great job the fishing!!!

[Ticketty Boo!]

I checked the tides alright JD, but didn't bargain on there being hardly any water in the river to start with, or the gravel bank shifting once again since our July visit.

It was a lovely day for pulling a boat against the tide though!

[general jack o'niell]

and your point is?

this seat disna roll to the bends, never gets wet or cold, gets up when it wants, goes to bed when it wants, ok so its naw allowed a full heelin breakfast every morning, or allowed to snack on twixes and other chocolate, sugar based products anymore, and theres naw a vhf to hand to talk sh!te on, but i think i'll be staying moored in this berth for the forseeable future, the boilersuit is binned, the steel toed boots are in the shed, the fingers are no up to any mending duties, tho i expect they'd still be quicker than any two currently sitting on a rail, no five or three leggers guaranteed.

it was a c*** of a job then, it'll stil be a c*** of a job now, and besides i canna speak polish, lithuanian or phillipino so i wouldn't understand any of the crews, it was hard enough understandin a carradale accent!!!

all i miss is a yarn wae attie, bob and uncle howard and uncle joe, the rest were all pure c**** as far as i remember, they never did realise i also had that channel on the vhf and heard everything that i was called, most of it might have been true then, and aye, it's even truer now, i'm still a class A c*** when i want to be!!!!

comeback!!!!

[the special one]

och that's the thing all the ones that aint at it any more were classed as the "DORANS"anyway! the usual town "back of the light boys" would just shot at the light and get nuthn but they would still shot awa in the same tow the following day then turn and say to each other "drole that,thot there wld be sum there this morn!!!" as the old saying goes......men and boys!!! over to u?