Carradale chaos after gales.

[jock the boat]

Toon is just cauld and wet, but the dale road be horrendous everyday so i can agree with everyone for once.
Jock wants to be friends, its a lonely existence being a boat

[Buzz Lightyear]

, that was the winter before sweltered was born so he has never seen real snow.

Actually the day we left Lochinver to come over here on holiday in 1998, we had to go via lairg, and the snow in places was over 10 ft high at the roadside. There was nearly 3 feet of snow in Lochinver.

best thing that could have happened to Lochinver then....buried!!

[Sweltered]

, that was the winter before sweltered was born so he has never seen real snow.

Actually the day we left Lochinver to come over here on holiday in 1998, we had to go via lairg, and the snow in places was over 10 ft high at the roadside. There was nearly 3 feet of snow in Lochinver.

best thing that could have happened to Lochinver then....buried!!

Could not have said it better myself. That being said, I could fair go a Pie from the Lochinver Larder.

[general jack o'niell]

but were you driving a white transit van?

wish i'd never said it didn't look like much snow, my comment about the lack of gritting went unnoticed as it was at odds with opinion that i was unsympathetic to the plight of the trumptonites. i'm surprised there wasn't a woman giving birth halfway up ugadale brae just to have the royal flush of sufferers.

i know what the road can be like in snow, i once came down it in a bedford van which we had stupidly bought for £50. we practically had to push it up peninver brae, we did have to push it when we got to the town as it packed up, never to go again, we would have been cheaper getting a taxi home from carradale, but it was worth the £50 just to see the look on a certain ozzie based drummers face when the person we had bought the van from appeared in the sunday mail a couple of weeks later, for something i always thought was commonplace in rural areas

[bill]

when the person we had bought the van from appeared in the sunday mail a couple of weeks later, for something i always thought was commonplace in rural areas

WHICH WAS ? ? ?

[general jack o'niell]

think recent news story about a case that was used as an example by an educated person who should have checked their facts, that turned out never to have happened in the first place, also story in yesterdays papers where two people got a years probation after being shopped by a mutual relative.

[spangles]

Another thread stoned to death.

JD I enjoyed looking at your photos. Jeest keep posting your wee snapshots. I and many others came on to see Kintyre photos and Carradale chaos.

Jeest one wee point. Could you get some folk in them?

S

[general jack o'niell]

sorry, i'll get my jaicket, sorry, i'll get my sportsjacket

[spangles]

sorry, i'll get my jaicket, sorry, i'll get my sportsjacket

Don't forget your hat. You'll want to look your best if JD's in town.

S

[general jack o'niell]

why bother? he wouldn't recognise me anyway, at least he didn't the last time i met him in the toilets of the carradale hotel at a wedding, he thought i was a visitor

[jdcarra]

sorry, i'll get my jaicket, sorry, i'll get my sportsjacket

Don't forget your hat. You'll want to look your best if JD's in town.

S

why bother? he wouldn't recognise me anyway, at least he didn't the last time i met him in the toilets of the carradale hotel at a wedding, he thought i was a visitor

It's what you call getting older, some folk's look's never change, others do change as may be this case.

Your not the first (thought I was a visitor) it's happened to me before, its my memory loss , and that comes with getting old . I'm speaking for myself here.

Pity you did not give me the honour of introducing yourself, I possibly would have had my camera with me for a snapshot.

ps. forgot tae add, were right off topic now .

[general jack o'niell]

i did, i had to, i was getting blank stares of nonrecognition when i asked about charlie and robert, who i hope are both keeping well, i did have roberts email address some time ago but lost it during a pc changeover a couple of years ago. i think i read that he got married two or three years ago, i haven't seen charlie in donkeys years, my old man used to say he was the best worker he ever had when he used to go out on the boat when he was a boy.

funny thing is, both their names came up last week when i was telling my daughter about how we used to start preparing for bonfire night at the end of august. we were watching the tyre fire on the news and i was telling her about the old "davaar gang" and our run ins with the "glensides" during our youth, and the games of "aleevo" over your way, the streetlight outside my grannies being "home" for all manner of nightly games of hide and seek, when we were young and innocent of course, before the "cider days" doon the glebe.