The Kintyre Forum

Saturday 22nd July with a lovely evening and well attended crowd in the village of Southend for their annual highland games gathering.

Good photos JDCarra, I did not see you there...... how on earth did you manage to capture the intercontinental ballistic missile from North Korea about to crash into Macharioch Hill?!!

y'all sure are lucky it was a dud missile and didn't go off, the Games would have had to be stopped early and the girls sack race, 8-10, would NEVER have been ran......... anyway,somebody should tell my man Bush or your man Blair about the missile.......

I thought it was one of Sir Richard Branson's space rockets gate-crashing the airshow.

And we pronounce it missILL not like you guys miss ILE

COOO BOY! How the heck you been?? You must have been on a world tour or something (english forum, germany forum, chinese forum, japanese forum... and now back here to the Kintyre forum!)

Actually, I saw that strange thing in the sky (MISSill). At first I thought it was the trail from one of the planes at the air show, then I thought, no.. its a long-handled plunger! But on third thought, someone seems to have a pretty strong arm. Is that what they call curling?

Well Bobbie, I've been around and I'll always be around and around and around and around, just quoting my good Highwayman buddies Willie Nelson and Kris K there

MISSill is the word of course but y'all should hear how they say it over there.......there are loads of words they say real funny......well, Corn Bread! it is like being in a foreign country....

I think I should let some of the locals come on and tell you about curling.....I'm not sure but I think you need lots of ice and brooms and folks shouting hureeeeeeee and sweeeeeeeeeep..........I heard curling can get pretty aggressive out on the Canadian prairies, I knew a rink of Coutts who turned it into a full on contact sport almost akin to Hockey.....now we are back to Gretsky again........

As you know, over here in Texas only the women curl.. well, and maybe a few men who don't readily admit to it .. and yes I guess some women have made a sport of it! Thats why some of them have really big hair.

Ah yes, the Highwaymen. Long live Waylon and Johnnie on the highways in the sky. Ever hear Kris with Rita Coolidge back when they were married. Some of his best.

Back to the thread. Sounds like Kintyre had quite an exciting and successful weekend.

Had a great night last night at the games.
4th gen I heard you but never saw you.

Great big thanks to Mumphys Mum for coming to my daughters rescue when she went to dance the Flora.
I am so grateful for the socks


I am only just after spotting the missile Couldn,t see it for looking.

4th gen Suthen' wrote:Good photos JDCarra, I did not see you there...... how on earth did you manage to capture the intercontinental ballistic missile from North Korea about to crash into Macharioch Hill?!!

Ach 4th gen

You must have been in the beer shed, pity, could have bought me a drink .

As amron said i also did not catch on with that flying missile .

Pity I was not able to speak to any of you 3 at the Games. Seems it is a new Kintyre pastime, VK forumites meeting up for a chat....in fact did not even SEE any of you....and was looking out for Mumphy's Mum and Amron too!
I would have bought you a drink JD, if there was any left....my thirsty buddies were scoffing it in grand style

I think the night was a success, no midgies and no rain for a start!

4th Gen, I was looking out for the very same person as yourself, cause I like to put a face to a name and I missed her, and she was at airshow on sunday and I still never saw her, is she some kind of ghost or am I getting her mixed up with Demi Moore.

See the cat's dragged in the droll fla efter a wheen o kwett weeks. Therrs lakely gan tae be a smell o the prairies hingin aboot for days noo. Well wur feet wir covered in bullsh--t the last time he wis here so hoots gan tae be any diffrent this time.
So its Willie an Kris noo. Hoot heppened tae "hingin wi the brothers" a wunner. Maybe he got oot before they got roon tae hingin him!
Gled the Soothen Gemms wir a success.
Wis 4th slevverin intae the mike this year as well. See his big buddy wis a superstar oot at the drome ower the weekend. His eyes wir oot lake organ stops at the tricks thae lads an lassies wir gettin up tae on the motor bikes. Therr wis a cuppla times ah thought he wis gan ti be tongue tied an naw sure hoot tae say, but naw he did a gran job.
Right best go an dae a wee bit.
Bubba, keep the cooboy under control wull yi.

No, cousin Amron isn't a ghost, I tried to make her out on JD's photos, she was sitting on the bench watching the dancing, look closely and you may see her. I'm on a couple of JD's photos, he got me on my good side (I was standing behind the bench).
Sorry to have missed you 4th Gen, I did a lap looking for you but you were well hidden.
It was good to see the Games, and such a lovely evening weather wise.
Just booked flights for next visit in mid-October, no MK Dons home match that weekend, will keep a look-out for events in the Toon!

I thought that was you in the top pic MM on the right of the man with red and white hooped T shirt and folded arms, the person in the next photo, beside the horse, watching the dancing seems to be wearing the same clothes but does not look like the same lady and where is Amron?

Need to get the image experts on CSI onto this one!