john.w

Johnny Pattilo played for scumdee:)

Yes ! I floated my brown boat to sea at the ice rink end under the main stand !

I think we beat Stirling Albion 3-0 that day !

Not sure of the result on my McDiarmid dump though !

brought a tear to your eyes:laugh:

how many of them have had a jobby at muirton park though ?

were the crappers under the stand ??

That picture o Jocky looks like criminal on the phone negotiating wi the polis I'll come oot as long as you dont send me back to Dundee:laugh:

Health and Safety is a nightmare with ladders! How can I go up a ladder, with a drill and a siren, and mount it whilst ALWAYS having 3 point contact on the ladder?? If anyone can tell me how then please enlighten me because I just can seem to find a way to do it

Piece of rope tie on tools and equipment go up ladder and pull them up qqwist I am smart:laugh:

2 coags walking down the Hilltoon one says to the other I hear there is a lot of work in Perth the other coag replies I hope it stays there

not at that location........its covered with a Tarpaulin

Glad it was a blue one

thank you, thats me telt.

if there no happy then they can always feck off home.its there choice.

Having left Perth many years ago and came to another country I met people with the similar opinions as yours but luckily enough I met a bigger percentage who extended the hand of friendship with the result here I am 44 years later still in Canada. If all the Natives of Perth living in other countries took the get ti f$#@k advice and came back you might have trouble getting a job.

Over here they drink beer with Clamato juice - that's tomato with a hint of clam! I kid you not, it's terrible!

Its better wi plain tomato juice maybe though I guess if you want your bevy to smell like Arbroath you could always drap a kipper in it

Speaking of which.

With a bunch of mates, I used to drink in a wee pub called the White Horse.

One night we were in there and a couple of Italian boys (ages with us, 19 or 20) started singing and they were incredible. I asked if I could buy them a wee hauf. "What is 'wee hauf?'"

So I bought them each a gless. "Molto, bene! Primo!, etc." They wanted to stand a hand so they asked if we wanted Blick bilbit. "Blick Belbit?" WTF is that?

"Drink we get in London, is molto, molto primo."

'Turned out it was Guinness half and half with champagne in pint glasses. Oh, my goodness.

We spent the rest of the night drinking those and in the morning woke up on the living room floor and I had a head worth fifty quid and a bag of barbells. The Italian boys seemed O.K. and a couple of glasses of vino later they were ready to go back out on the ran-dan. A couple of spews later, so were we. We got to the White Horse about 11:00 a.m. + 01 seconds with me and the Scots guys screaming for an eye-opener.

It turned out that the manageress had given me tick the previous night and I was into the bar for 17/10 (about a weeks wages if you worked hard). Promising to pay next payday on the heads of my future children, she gave me a fiver to get through the week.

The manageress asked, "Want Black Bilbit?" Aye, right. In yer ear Jessica, gies a pint, not Guinness, and please don't talk too loud.

Do they still drink Blick Belbit?

Smudge

Used to drink half pint guinness and and half pint cider used to call that Black Velvet sare heid material as well, add a Holdgates fish supper and your definitely shouting for Hughie

Happy birthday Mon Ami from Canada's frozen north

Kyle jinx off our backs now get into Falkirk and accies. Good result Del and the boys

Me too but it is starting to wrinkle after 70 years and it doesnt iron too weel

John,I was going to say,my dad always pointed him out when he passed us in the town.Would love to see it coming back to Perth.I think it would of been chaos had it been through the casual years but dont think it would have that problem now.It would be popular if it started again and maybe twining with a Canadian city/town would boost crowds and interest.

Imagine buying your season ticket from the club and in the same deal buying a season ticket for the Perth Saints ice hockey team playing in the indoor arena next door.

2 or 3 years after coming to Canada I was working on this job and this salesman was there I looked at him and said I know you, you played for Perth Panthers and furthermore I stayed up the same close as your wife. His name was Ken Doig started to play golf in Perth and became a good golfer, he invited me up to his house for Sunday dinner A1 guy small world

It was the Panthers.They used to get a good crowd and had a no bad team.

There was Canadians played for them one off them ended up staying in Perth and I think he was in charge of the baths Mike Mazur was his name

When Ice Hockey was played in Perth, right next door to Muirton Park what was the name of the team? I want to say Perth Panthers but I dont think thats right?

You are correct it was the Panthers used to be great games when they played the Coagie Tigers also other teams Paisley Pirates. Fife Flyers. Dunferlime Vikings, Ayr Raiders rink used to be packed:D

Saturday night when yea were wee tin bath front off the fire. Then next step it was up the road tae the swimmies for a bath thae used to be cubicles wi a bathtub yea rented

Brought up in Scott St lavvie was between landings key hung beside front door. Got married bought a wee flat at 105 Scott St yea had to go doon the ootside stair across the backyard to use facilities get frostbite on yer erse if yea had to sit doon in the winter. Finally got inside bathroom when I moved to Letham but in them days none off these situations were oot off the ordinary so as the young fella says I guess I am AINSHINT:laugh::laugh:

Regarding the size aspect the Cutlog Vennel was narrower than the Meal Vennel then there was one called Horners Lane ran from South St to Canal St beside Tesco it was as wide as the Cutlog. Then further along South St you had the Ropemakers Close running to Canal St further east you had one just before Princes St again going to Canal St.Across the road you have the one going to St Johns Kirk then up George St you have two, one going to Skinnergate it has part off the old city wall halfway down. The other one is across the road going to Tay St joins up with that wee St between church and the Royal George used to go to the lifeboys in that kirk and later years pay my rent in the wee street, building used to house the registrars and the rent office

Aye a wee moulding to cover the joint between hardwood and your skirting something that will blend in wi original skirting. Just a we bit advice fae an auld jiner. Jeez Larky will be doing a post along the lines of location location

finding punters hooses in Muirton next :laugh:

Impressive trip I have never been down east just from Ontario west and Alberta north. The wife was born in Nova Scotia closest I got to it:D

did ye head up north at all

Hi John, been doing the very same thing too!

I was showing the wife where I was brought in the building next to the Poundstretcher in Scott St the wifes Canadian she laughed when I told her my auld dears had moved once in Perth once fae the attic at 11 Scott St to second floor at 11 Scott St in aboot 40 years

30 centimeters of snow in NIMES since last night....cote d'azure my arse

Weve got 4 feet do you want any and -28c:laugh:

Memories looking at my auld hoose in Strathtay Rd the step hooses up the hill from the Tulloch Institute, could almost look in the windae and see if it was the same wallpaper. But I guess after 44 years in Canada it has been changed a couple off times. Magic though scrolling around