Author Topic: Favourite Scottish Things (Read 6966 times)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 September, 2014, 06:32:36 pm »

We've usually had a surfeit of sunshine whenever we've been to Scotland.

nicknack · « **Reply #26 on:** 17 September, 2014, 06:38:07 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2014, 06:32:36 pm

We've usually had a surfeit of sunshine whenever we've been to Scotland.

Now you're just being silly.

Midges.

Steph · « **Reply #27 on:** 17 September, 2014, 06:40:33 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2014, 05:37:51 pm

Lagavulin
Laphraoig
Talisker
Glenmoranjie
Aberlour
The Macallan
The Glenlivet
Jura
Monkey Shoulder
The Balvenie

also

The bicycle
Skye
Mull
The Western Isles
Iona
The Black Isle
The Grog & Gruel, Fort William
The Cuillins
Otters
Eagles
Corncrakes
Uig (Lewis)

Clearly, Wows, you don't limit your interests to a narrow group.

Oh...hang on....

The only corncrake I have ever heard, repeating its Latin name over and over again (Crex crex) was on a night shift in France

Rhys W · « **Reply #28 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:16:52 pm »

Caledonian 80/- and Deuchars IPA.
Guitar bands in general - Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Glasvegas... the list is endless.
The Higgs Boson.
Edinburgh Road Club.
Tour of The Meldons, Gordon Arms Trophy etc.
The Lang Whang.
Edinburgh Bike Co-op.
Endura.

tiermat · « **Reply #29 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:21:49 pm »

Glasgow, though it has a rough rep, I have spent many happy days there.
Biffy Clyro.
80/-
King Tut's Wahwah Hut.
Biffy Clyro.
The road back home.
Did I mention Biffy Clyro?

Karla · « **Reply #30 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:27:14 pm »

Responsible sex education by Travis

Oh sorry, wasn't this the Tune Association thread?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #31 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:34:12 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 17 September, 2014, 06:38:07 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 17 September, 2014, 06:32:36 pm
We've usually had a surfeit of sunshine whenever we've been to Scotland.

Now you're just being silly.

Midges.

Skye, 2010

Dumfries & Galloway 2011

NW Scotland 2011

Western Isles, 2012

We didn't go to Scotland in 2013 and for some reason I haven't yet put my Mull 2014 photos online. That was just as sunny.

Kim · « **Reply #32 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:39:27 pm »

Weather makes up for it when you go to Wales, thobut...

nicknack · « **Reply #33 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:45:02 pm »

I suspect Wow's pics are all in the middle of summer.
So is this.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #34 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:50:44 pm »

Achmelvich is one of my favourite spots, I've been up Suilven lots, but never Canisp, did you get to see the Castle when you were there? You must have been very close where you were stood.

The view looking the other way is good.

The geology is one of the best things about Scotland.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #35 on:** 17 September, 2014, 07:55:47 pm »

Felsic Lewisian Gneiss, and Scourie Dykes.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #36 on:** 17 September, 2014, 08:31:07 pm »

Plain loaves, chippy sauce, black bun.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #37 on:** 18 September, 2014, 08:06:54 am »

Long Sandy beaches.

The south shore of the Moray Firth with the bones of a sailing fishing boat (of a type called a 'Zulu', judging by the raked stern post) buried in the sand.

Jaded · « **Reply #38 on:** 18 September, 2014, 08:14:36 am »

Haggis, bashed tatties and neaps, with whisky.
Bagpipes
Edinburgh
Glasgow
The Border towns
Lewis and Harris
Stac Pollaidh
An Teallach
Meall Mhor (the one I like)
Rugged highland landscape
The fertile arable land of the East Coast

Regulator · « **Reply #39 on:** 18 September, 2014, 09:26:31 am »

Bagpipes...

...in fact, pipe and drum band music. I think it's the influence of being brough up on the South Island of New Zealand.

Kilts (although those aren't really a Scottish invention) - and men in kilts...

The Aberdeen accent (the soft purr that makes me go weak at the knees).

TimC · « **Reply #40 on:** 18 September, 2014, 09:38:40 am »

The border on the way south?

My coat's the Duffel with the Burberry lining....

Wowbagger · « **Reply #41 on:** 18 September, 2014, 10:07:11 am »

Quote from: nicknack on 17 September, 2014, 07:45:02 pm

I suspect Wow's pics are all in the middle of summer.
So is this.

The Suilven ones were. Skye was April, the rest were late May/early June. To be fair, the NW Coast trip was me on my own and the weather was OK without being marvellous for most of the time. I certainly didn't get any rain. The Skye trip was unbroken sunshine apart from the first day and a half, and the Western Isles were also glorious. Benbecula was a bit cloudy, but it's known as the Dark Isle so perhaps that's not surprising. While we were there the south was enjoying its wettest summer on record. We encountered rain on only one day - cycling back from Euston to Lpoo St and we got drenched cycling home from Southend Central.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #42 on:** 18 September, 2014, 10:47:30 am »

Scottish hard-headedness and directness. Their instinctive dismissal of romantic anecdote gave us the Scottish Enlightenment.

RJ · « **Reply #43 on:** 19 September, 2014, 02:52:14 pm »

Apocalypso! The Hebrides are inundated! (While parts of Scotland are as dry as London)

Vince · « **Reply #44 on:** 19 September, 2014, 03:37:12 pm »

Runrig
The word 'No'.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #45 on:** 19 September, 2014, 03:59:11 pm »

Sunset over the islands, water gently lapping the shore, seaweed waving with the ripples, with flashes of gold and orange from the setting sun, dark rocky islands in the distance.

Pancho · « **Reply #46 on:** 19 September, 2014, 04:41:49 pm »

I've been never been to Scotland for more than 12 hours at a time so can't claim to know the place intimately. But I do like shortbread as sold at the airport there. Although I've never fathomed what gives Scotland any claim over it.

RJ · « **Reply #47 on:** 19 September, 2014, 05:35:37 pm »

Quote from: Pancho on 19 September, 2014, 04:41:49 pm

I've been never been to Scotland for more than 12 hours at a time so can't claim to know the place intimately. But I do like shortbread as sold at the airport there. Although I've never fathomed what gives Scotland any claim over it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortbread

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #48 on:** 19 September, 2014, 06:20:58 pm »

Quote from: Vince on 19 September, 2014, 03:37:12 pm

Runrig
The word 'No'.

As in 'gonnae no dae that' ?

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #49 on:** 19 September, 2014, 07:18:30 pm »

Tonight, my favorite Scottish thing is watching television images of Yes voters crying.

I'm sure its very wrong, but I've been hopping from channel to channel to get my fix