OMG I bought one...

On 07/09/11 2:30 PM, Diogenes wrote:

Lunch at Wollombi.... yeah, I'm a definite.

(It's because I have had a long history of doing lunches, some of them
well into the spectacular class, that I'm so good at lunches. I'm
specialising in the stuff I'm good at.)

Group ride from someplace to there..... count me as a maybe.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

www.icebreaker.com

Nev..

 

Tough Scottish stock I see...

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I really wish folk would give up on the "a Scotsman should be able to
handle the cold" business.

Why do you think I left Scotland?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

A number of things leap to mind..

Haggis
Cool breezes and kilts
Bagpipes
Incomprehensible accents...

 

and you think as an Ozralian your accent is completely transparent >

 

No, what makes you think I do?

 

Haggis is all right....even better when served curried.... a la
Pakistani chip shops.

Kilts are all right, too. Having said that, if you plan to fall into
the sea, don't do it wearing a kilt. Don't ask how I know this.

The cool, as they say in Scotland, bracing, breezes are, indeed, what
drove me away. That and black ice, snow and blizzards, grey overcast
skies....and they got worse in winter.

They are all right too, in the right places.

If you travel through Glen Coe, and stop in the middle, you can
sometimes hear, very distant, bagpipe music, and it is eerily pleasant.

Trust me, "very distant" is the key phrase.

In an enclosed space, bagpipe playing contravenes the Geneva Conventions.

The folk on the West coast can understand each other, although people
from more than ten miles from home, do talk funny.

The folk on the East coast, I dunno if anyone can understand them. <shrug>

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Never.

Let's see... So you could ride a bike to McGrath's hill on a winter's
mroing and laugh at the woossie Aussies complaining about what _they_
call cold? I dunno...

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Actually, I did leave Scotland because of the weather.

After my back got its "cut and shut" operation, I found the cold and
damp very uncomfortable. To be honest. I wisnae that impressed with
cold and damp, even before said operation.

I went to Athens where I was living at my parent's place, when I met and
got involved with Angie.

We discussed where would be a good place to live, in terms of "neutral
territory" and decided that Oz seemed like a good idea.

Over 35 years later, we are still happy with that decision.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Some of my mob are from around Churchtown , being Moyce and Scammell
does that


Many of the family spoke other than English and this is why I claim
being unable to spell in Pommie

 

On 07/10/11 6:47 PM, atec77 wrote:

Northern Ireland?

(Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

It's not a bad place. ;-)

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

The real scotts is CHurchtown
mention Ireland again and I'll glass ye

 

I was in the Mishnish Hotel in Tobermory on a Saturday afternoon 4
years ago (Mull music festival). Some Scots asked the two of us where
we're from, "Australia" we said. His next line was fairly
incomprehensible and his mates were smirking. I asked him to repeat
himself as I couldn't hear him properly over the accordian music. He
repeated whatever it was he said and while I couldnt say word for word
what he said the gist was "where aboot in Australia?". When I replied
"we're from the Blue Mountains about an hour and a bit west of
Sydney" his jaw dropped and he just said "You understood that?" his
mates pissed themselves laughing.

I never told him why I could understand him (I grew up in a house full
of scots accents and surrounded by lots of scots people so the accent
was no challenge). We thought we might have some trouble with the
accents up in the Orkneys but it was pretty mild even there. Did get
to see a Yamaha TDR250 in Kirkwall though (obligatory moto content)

Al

 

On 07/10/11 7:35 PM, Alan Pennykid wrote:

If it sounded like.... "Furry boots?" the questioner was probably from
the East coast, Aberdeen or there aboots.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

My apologies.

I don't know where Churchtown is, in Scotland.

Neither does Google mapping.

Since Scotland and the North of Ireland are almost within shouting
distance, there has been, over the years, a fair amount of back and
forward between them, and I meant no offence.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

INVERNESS-SHIRE was where Churchton was sited
(seems the spelling changed along the way)
Anyway it's obvious as a group we are Scots , being only 192 cm I am
one of the smaller ones in the family

 

its been 10days, in for repairs yet?

 

Ouch. I think I'm getting irony overload.
wtf77 responds to an suggestion that he spouts horseshit by snipping
that bit and spouting more horseshit.
Moike