The queens jubilee?..Naw. The olympic games?..Naw. Summer time..Och Aye, thank heavens that's over.
The trees are turning a golden yellow, The mountains have a dusting of snow, There's a nip in the air
and all the fatties have gone away!
There is nothing worse than having to watch a fat person walking down the prom showing off the rolls of fat thay have built up over the years. Short tops and even shorter skirts or just tights...it scares the dogs and is enough to put you off your
Well it's all happening here. The queens jubilee, the olympics, and the Gourock outdoor pool
has been refurbished and is now open for business. The workmen are out in their droves and cleaning
things and painting them afterwards. Doh o silly me, it's all for the queen who will visit our litle town
in July I think.
So much money is being spent on this one four hour visit by the queen: that will be queen elizabeth
the second of england and the first of Scotland. Although
The opening line of the Scottish national anthem, asking when will the Scottish nation
rise from it's slumber, remover the english bonds that are holding us back from being
the independant nation we once were?
Well the time has come, it is here and it will be in 2014. 700 years after the battle of Bannockburn
when we asserted our right to be our own nation and to cower to the english no more.
The Scots put in motion a rise of nationalism when the SNP was given a majority
Scotland is being battered by hurricane weather at the moment. The hatches are battened down,
the dog is in it's bed, the candles and tourches - check (just in case) oh yes, and of course
dig out the kite..might as well have some fun while we're at it.
Just to put it into perspective on how Scots take things in our stride: America name their hurricanes
after ladies and that goes from A-Z. Here in Scotland we named our hurricane 'BAWBAG'and just in case your'e wondering????
May 26 2010, I wrote a blog about a cretin..oops I mean a certain donald trump and the title was
'Sent Him Homeward to Think Again'. The blog was hitting out at trump for building a golf course in an Aberdeenshire site of Special Scientific Interest. A place I grew up near and Used to visit
for days out on my bicycle.
He started out quite well, but now the tide is turning against this muppet.
A film has been made outlining his bullying tactics on a small community, trying
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