Fair Maid

It's a Braw expression which needs no explanation, and perfectly describes some of the mortgage slaves I've shared streets with around Scotland.

The train to Chicago was very crowded, so a soldier walked the length of the train,
looking for an empty seat.The only unoccupied seat was directly adjacent
to a well-dressed, middle-aged French lady and was being used by her little dog.
The weary soldier asked,
"Please, ma'am, may I sit in that seat?"
The French woman looked at the soldier, sniffed and said,
"You Americans. You are such a rude class of people. Can't you see my Little Fifi is
using that seat?"
The soldier walked away, determined to find a place to rest, but after another trip down
to the end of the train, found himself again facing the woman with the dog.
Again he asked, "Please, lady. May I sit there? I'm very tired."
The French woman wrinkled her nose and snorted, "You Americans! Not only are you rude,
but you are also arrogant"
The soldier didn't say anything else; he leaned over, picked up the little dog,
tossed it out the window of the train, and sat down in the empty seat.
The woman shrieked and demanded that someone defend her and chastise the soldier.
An English gentleman sitting across the aisle spoke up,
"You know, sir, you Americans do seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing.
You eat holding your fork in the wrong hand.
You drive your cars on the wrong side of the road.
And now, sir,
you've thrown the wrong b!tch out the window!"

Bus shelters were done away with in the early 90's when the flood prevention scheme was implemented.
Couldn't tell you about the bus station, but it needs knocked down and re-built. Just need to look at the dive that was Edinburgh Bus Station to what it is now for inspiration, albeit on a smaller scale.

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!" That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the best toast of the night."She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?" John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife."  "Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled, and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."
She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been in there twice in the last four years. "Once I had to pull him by the ears to make him come, and the other time he fell asleep!"

Rod no long enough??

Did ye dangle yer bait?

i have my ways x x

i have my ways x x

just read that.....bloody cheek!

Not so long ago you could put a red rosette on a monkey in Glasgow & it would have got voted in. Never thought I would see the day they couldn't get a MSP in the whole of Glasgow.
Mind you it was on the cards as Dugdale is a lightweight.

Thank you for your forgetfulness.
A grateful nation.

My husband and I were dressed and ready to go out for a lovely evening of dinner and theatre. Having been burgled in the past, we turned on a 'night light' and the answering machine, then put the cat in the backyard. When our taxi arrived, we walked out our front door and our rather fat cat scooted between our legs inside, then ran up the stairs. Because our cat likes to chase our budgie we really didn't want to leave them unchaperoned so my husband ran inside to retrieve her and put her in the back yard again.
I didn't want the taxi driver to know our house was going to be empty all evening, so I explained to him that my husband would be out momentarily and he was just bidding goodnight to my mother. A few minutes later he got into the cab all hot and bothered, and said, to my growing horror and amusement, as the cab pulled away.
"Sorry it took so long but the stupid bitch was hiding under the bed and i had to poke her arse with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off so i grabbed her by the neck and wrapped her in a blanket so she wouldn't scratch me like she did last time. But it worked! I hauled her fat arse down the stairs and threw her into the backyard....she had better not shit in the vegetable garden again."

My Grandmothers first husband fell at Ypres, Although he was talked about no one really knew much about him as Gran never said that much, The parchment I got from Ashton had a lot of detail about him where he was born (Sutherland ) where he lived in Perth , Age he fell and where to find his grave, in a way it I felt a bit closer to him.

Both my gt grandfathers fought at the battle of the Somme and thankfully came back.  One gt gt Uncle died at the battle of Arras.  His body was never found.  I find that upsetting - that he is somewhere unidentified.  Just a name on a plaque.  Funny how you can feel that way over some one you've never met.

Both my gt grandfathers fought at the battle of the Somme and thankfully came back.  One gt gt Uncle died at the battle of Arras.  His body was never found.  I find that upsetting - that he is somewhere unidentified.  Just a name on a plaque.  Funny how you can feel that way over some one you've never met.

Whilst doing WW1 family research and checking the Commonwealth Graves website, I decided to do a search for how many were recorded that came from the Perth area.  The search results showed 1908 names.  So many lives lost.  Some of the entries gave address details of the fallen and their families.   I doubt if many of the families were ever able to visit their loved one's graves due to lack of money, etc. 
 I'm old enough to remember individuals who lived in my neighbourhood(s) who had survived the Great War, but of those who died, I wonder how many  life paths of descendent  relatives I unwittingly crossed in every day life.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
 
RIP
 
 

Both my gt grandfathers fought at the battle of the Somme and thankfully came back.  One gt gt Uncle died at the battle of Arras.  His body was never found.  I find that upsetting - that he is somewhere unidentified.  Just a name on a plaque.  Funny how you can feel that way over some one you've never met.

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Both my gt grandfathers fought at the battle of the Somme and thankfully came back.  One gt gt Uncle died at the battle of Arras.  His body was never found.  I find that upsetting - that he is somewhere unidentified.  Just a name on a plaque.  Funny how you can feel that way over some one you've never met.

Both my gt grandfathers fought at the battle of the Somme and thankfully came back.  One gt gt Uncle died at the battle of Arras.  His body was never found.  I find that upsetting - that he is somewhere unidentified.  Just a name on a plaque.  Funny how you can feel that way over some one you've never met.

During a return visit from down under, my daughter and family, paid a visit to Edinburgh Castle as well as my wife and I and our other daughter.
Records are held there showing Scots in various Regiments who died in various wars.
My (Oz} daughter was visibly upset when reading the entry about her great granddad (who's name is on the war memorial in Portsoy),  who served in the Durham Light Infantry and was killed during the first world war.
Such a sacrifice.
R.I.P. 

Whilst doing WW1 family research and checking the Commonwealth Graves website, I decided to do a search for how many were recorded that came from the Perth area.  The search results showed 1908 names.  So many lives lost.  Some of the entries gave address details of the fallen and their families.   I doubt if many of the families were ever able to visit their loved one's graves due to lack of money, etc. 
 I'm old enough to remember individuals who lived in my neighbourhood(s) who had survived the Great War, but of those who died, I wonder how many  life paths of descendent  relatives I unwittingly crossed in every day life.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
 
RIP
 
 

Whilst doing WW1 family research and checking the Commonwealth Graves website, I decided to do a search for how many were recorded that came from the Perth area.  The search results showed 1908 names.  So many lives lost.  Some of the entries gave address details of the fallen and their families.   I doubt if many of the families were ever able to visit their loved one's graves due to lack of money, etc. 
 I'm old enough to remember individuals who lived in my neighbourhood(s) who had survived the Great War, but of those who died, I wonder how many  life paths of descendent  relatives I unwittingly crossed in every day life.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
 
RIP
 
 

Whilst doing WW1 family research and checking the Commonwealth Graves website, I decided to do a search for how many were recorded that came from the Perth area.  The search results showed 1908 names.  So many lives lost.  Some of the entries gave address details of the fallen and their families.   I doubt if many of the families were ever able to visit their loved one's graves due to lack of money, etc. 
 I'm old enough to remember individuals who lived in my neighbourhood(s) who had survived the Great War, but of those who died, I wonder how many  life paths of descendent  relatives I unwittingly crossed in every day life.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
 
RIP
 
 

Whilst doing WW1 family research and checking the Commonwealth Graves website, I decided to do a search for how many were recorded that came from the Perth area.  The search results showed 1908 names.  So many lives lost.  Some of the entries gave address details of the fallen and their families.   I doubt if many of the families were ever able to visit their loved one's graves due to lack of money, etc. 
 I'm old enough to remember individuals who lived in my neighbourhood(s) who had survived the Great War, but of those who died, I wonder how many  life paths of descendent  relatives I unwittingly crossed in every day life.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
 
RIP