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It’s amazing how moving to Scotland changes your perception of things. Now I realise that, come the TV weather forecast, we are in that wee bit up the top that apparently nobody’s worried about!
Perception of the geographical areas changes. When I lived in Oxfordshire, the south ended at Banbury, from where the Midlands continued until Stoke on the left-hand side and Nottingham on the right, everything else after that was ‘oop North’.
Now ‘The North’ starts after Pitlochry or sort of Forfar area, below which there’s ‘Central Scotland’ down to Lesmahagow at which point it becomes Southern Scotland/Borders then everything from Carlisle is ‘Down South’. Not also the division so that the East and West is divided by the A8/A80/M73 corridor, which sees me passing the ‘long way'(my Scottish wife’s reference) between the East and West every day.
For Scottishness, I’m proud to say we had a completely Fife produced Christmas dinner, with Auchtermuchty venison alongside Abernethy grown vegetables. Square sausage…..brilliant…….designed to make sausage sandwiches a doddle! Haggis is delicious, though my wife hates it!
Rob
99% of all English people would rather be Scottish.
Wrong
I have yet to meet anyone who wants ginger hair, a drink problem, a diet of deep fried mars bars and a boat like Andy Murrays
Why do the English not go for independence???
I think the country would break up with Yokshire banging the drum the loudest for independence.Followed by Cornwall!!!
It would be interesting to have found out what would have happened if Scotland if it was independent in the 1970’s with all that oil.
Don’t most of the Scots live in London now?
If their not with a scabby dog outside a station with a blanket over their knees, then the rest of them are in Downing Street.
But I jest.
They have a winner! BB John.
Ock eye da noo!
For Scottishness, I’m proud to say we had a completely Fife produced Christmas dinner, with Auchtermuchty venison alongside Abernethy grown vegetables. Square sausage…..brilliant…….designed to make sausage sandwiches a doddle! Haggis is delicious, though my wife hates it!
Rob
Auchtermuchty Venison – god I’m gonna miss that! I’m going to have to save up and get some delivered down here I think!
Lekha
Mum and my two brothers live about hafway between Reading and Newbury. I’ll bring some down next time I visit!
Rob
Not sorry for re-opening this thread but with the benefit of hindsight it is clear now to all Scots what a sham the SNP, its policies, and its leader are. Salmond had been banging on about Iceland being a role-model for Scotland. Where would he have got the huge sums needed to bail out the two scottish banks. He would also leave us defenceless like the people of Georgia were in July if we were subject to SNP defence policy.
SNP thinking has been once and for all proved intellectually and morally bankrupt.Yes the Labour party have many faults, but betraying an entire nation by co-erseing them into independence and its associated terrible ramifications on the back of an unpopular government is dangerous to the country and people I love.
hi bucketnut,
thank you for bringing the thread back up, I thought it had long since died a death, much as you’d like the SNP to do by the sound of things…
Ultimately, Scotland will have to get off the fence and decide which way it should hop but I’m not sure a parallel with defenceless Georgia is appropriate, I mean who would want to invade Scotland?..not the English surely, as if we haven’t got enough problems, and Mr Salmond would expect us to come to your defence, which of course we would
.John Smeaton rocks!…seriously
As an exile from the Borders, in fact from just above the ancient Debateable Land, do me a favour will you. If anyone is going to invade Scotland (right enough who on earth would want to) do it from the North or East.The Borders is sick and tired of all the invasions from the South. It sparked off the Reiving Times.
We are largely ignored by the rest of the country and it is about time that idiot Salmond moved on.
As for the whole West Lothian question, I wholehearted support those who oppose Scottish MPs participation in legislation for England and Wales whilst English and Welsh MPs are expressly forbidden from participating in Scottish legislation. In addition, I think the bloated Scottish Grand Committee, which consists of all those sitting for Scottish seats in Westminster, should be reduced in the same way that all other select committees in Westminster are.
How ironic that WE have someone from Enfield and Germany offering advice on Scottish matters – from afar.
Typical.
I call it the Sean Connery syndrome.
By the way Ugly Mare, many of us home based Scots ( who actually live there ) think (nay, make that know) that John Smeaton is a complete sham.
An opportunist who played no involvement in the attack on the terrorists at Glasgow airport – he was, as he later admitted, "smoking a fag at the time."
He just happened to be the lucky (as it turned out) guy who was confronted by a Sky tv reporter after the incident occured.
I know he recently suffered from an asthma attack and was, we are led to believe, hospitalised. Some cynics might suggest his illness came at a very convenient time – prior to the official inquiry into the Glasgow airport attack taking place and where on – scene witnesses and those involved were asked to give evidence.
The truth is, John Smeaton did not accost or attack any individual terrorist that day – as his work colleagues have confirmed. The true heroes have been neglected while "Smeato" coins it in on the back of a Sky tv interview. But of course, why let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Not only all of that, but he’s a dirty big hun as well isn’t he, Himself?
Well, there is that too, I suppose.
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