Adam Whyte-Settlar on the BBC!
MacP
make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
bolts on the record!
Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
MacP
"Mur a bi i gun tarrag, 's ann LEAMSA!"
"If she ain't nailed down, she's MINE!"
Ian Morrison
> I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
> make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
> bolts on the record!
>
> Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
It sounds like the Easter Ross chappie has a lot of Irish in his
immediate ancestry. The Mull one is more convincing.
------
Ian O.
--
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The Real Fifeshire Bimbo
>I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
> make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
> bolts on the record!
>
> Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
LOL Brilliant.You had me right from the opening lines!
"The Whyte-Settlars .. the ongoing chronicle of a tinker family. In
today's episode the Whyte-Settlars are being investigated in the north of
Scotland for activities undertaken by the head of the family Adam
Whyte-Settlar."
I'm still listening and it seems there seems to be a bit of feedback that
makes it unintelligible :( The first part has Adam down to a tee though:)
Thanks.
MacP
Unless you're being funny, you should be seeing an ear doctor about
your hearing problem. I lived in Easter Ross for years but I've never
stayed in Mull. Why do you think AW-S and I knew so many of the same
people in Easter and Wester Ross, coffi gadje? I lived there every
winter from the age of four to 18 and attended the local primary
school for two years. You were there for how long - two weeks?
>--
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Real_McCoy
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:438f7f62.34095016@news...
McC
MacP
Thank you!
The feedback was a mistake, but it resulted in so Highland a pub
stramash that I left it alone as I felt it was truer to life than a
real news report!
Did you catch the bit at the very end where one of them says "make it
a double, please"? I thought that caught the flavour perfectly! I
couldn't believe my luck in finding "The Archers" theme music... I
spent half the afternoon laughing about it all...
What you have to do in the last half is listen to each man separately
and you can make them out quite easily - the one in the background is
going on about "Sahtan's (Satan's) work!"
The nice thing about the Highland accent is that any word borrowed
from English is automatically recrafted into Highlandese. Thus, the
quarterdeck on a ship becomes ta kwatterteck; lipstick is steeckleeps;
anchorage is ach-ker-setch,
Wait I get my hands on the manual so I can mix the channels correctly
- watch out!
Elaine Goldberg
MacP wrote:
<snip>
>Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the
> BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> better get your throat lozenges ready,
> you other SCS stars!
http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
I heard the part about him "chasing the wife" and then everything came
to a screeching halt! Talk about 'cliff-hangers' .........what happened
next?
Elaine
Elaine Goldberg
Helen wrote:
<snip>
>I'm still listening and it seems there
> seems to be a bit of feedback that
> makes it unintelligible :( The first part
> has Adam down to a tee though:)
I didn't experience feedback, but it cut out just as he was "chasing the
wife". The suspense is killing me.
Elaine
MacP
Probably (and sadly) your player may not be able to cope.
I personally use winamp, which is small, versatile and unfussy about
what it can play and (I think) the best on the net. It's also free.
http://www.download-it-free.com/winamp/index.asp
Lachie
>I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
>make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
>workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
>I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
>bolts on the record!
>
>Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
>better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>
>http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
Very good mannie, the tink says ewe like I do.
Howeffer I think it would have been good if report had been more
balanced, couldn't the man himself been lured from his lair and given
his side of the story? Or will that be the follow-up?
--
Llachie.
Hezakiah 14:10 - Na chwennych dafad dy gymydog, oblegid myfi yr Arglwydd dy
Dduw, wyf Dduw eiddigus...
MacP
>sgrìobh MacP
>
>>I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
>>make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
>>workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
>>I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
>>bolts on the record!
>>
>>Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
>>better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>>
>>http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
>
>
>Very good mannie, the tink says ewe like I do.
>
>Howeffer I think it would have been good if report had been more
>balanced, couldn't the man himself been lured from his lair and given
>his side of the story? Or will that be the follow-up?
Balanced? BALANCED?
Balanced is for Americans playing at democracy. This is Scotland -
pure, raw prejudice, unalloyed by any whining, mitigating
"explanations" from the burnee (he who is is to be burned at the
stake), whio is of course utterly guilty but is allowed one last word
to shed a gloss of "fairness" over the whole revolting travesty...
>--
>Llachie.
>Hezakiah 14:10 - Na chwennych dafad dy gymydog, oblegid myfi yr Arglwydd dy
>Dduw, wyf Dduw eiddigus...
>
MacP
Goldberg) wrote:
Now I have had a sleep and my face is no longer resting against the
monitor, I will give you a written report. It is important to
understand that both interviewees are speaking at the same time, over
each other, giving a splendid effect of everyone trying to speak at
once - rather like SCS, really!
Reporter: Later we spoke to Mr. Maclean from just outside Tobermory on
the Isle of Mull. Now Mr. Maclean, I understand that you also have had
Adam Whytte-Settlar staying at your place while he was apparently
trying to replant a forest.
Mr. Maclean: Aye, Diabhal (the devil) he wass, he wass indeed, he was
there, but there was nothing but Sahtan's (Satan's) work in hiss hants
(hands) that wass what wass going on and things happened here that I
cannot tell you about because I'm sworn to silence by the minister,
but I weel (will) say this, if any goat could do to my cattle what
what Adam Whyte-Settlar wass doing, it would be a happy goat indeed.
Reporter: Good heavens, Mr. Maclean, that sounds like quite a serious
accusation!
Mr. Maclean: It iss, it iss and it was the worst crop of calves I
effer had as well; that's all about it I'll tell ya, I tell ya...
<The overriding voice is that of Mr. Seumas (James) Macrae,
father-in-law of Mr. MacLean>.
Reporter: Mr. Maclean's father-in-law was found to back up his
son-in-law's testimony, Seumas Macrea...
Mr. Macrae: Aye , that, that Settlar fella, he wass chust, chust a
desperate wan, that! He wass aalways going into Opan (Oban) for more
whisky, he took a tractor with him; he put it through a few gates a
few times and he had it in the sea an aal. Aye, aye, he wass chust a
desperate fellow he wass, an, an me giving him money for whisky and
never seeing a drop back... it wass terrible, I don't know what the
world is coming to when people from Inklant (England) come back up
here, doing aal the damage they do,... aye, aye... make it a double
please...
Elaine Goldberg
MacP wrote:
>if any goat could do to my cattle what
> what Adam Whyte-Settlar wass doing, it
> would be a happy goat indeed.
But, did he ever succeed in replanting the forest?
Elaine
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"Elaine Goldberg" <ElaineF...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Adam Whyte-Settlar
Oct 25 2003, 11:52 pm show options
Newsgroups: soc.culture.scottish
From: "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawill...@hotmail.com> - Find messages by this
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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:38:02 +1300
snipped...
If you are heading out towards Iona at any time will you check out the
hillside on the left hand side of the road just before Pennyghail? Take a
look at the young forest there. All the way from the road to the skyline. My
friends and I planted that hill when I was in my 20's.
It should just about be ready to thin out now.
In front of the ubiquitous Sitka and Douglas fir and at strategic viewpoints
along that road within a few miles of Pennyghail on the Dunvegan(?) road you
should see upwards of 5,000 native hardwoods - Rowan, Birch, Hazel, Aspen
and the like.
These unproductive, purely decorative, amenity trees are there for your
enjoyment as a result of the only 'environmental strike' ever to have
occurred on the Island of Mull.
Four of my friends and I flatly refused to carry on with the commercial
conifers-only tree-planting programme unless and until we were supplied with
10,000 native decorative hardwoods with which to landscape and enhance
particular prominent points and vistas along that roadside.
To be honest my friends weren't that keen but I was bigger than all of them
and they were *my* caravans they were sleeping in.
After a great deal of industrial strife and blackmail the company eventually
agreed to supply 8,000 trees and actually delivered 5,000.
These we duly planted for no pay in the pissing bloody rain as a service to
nature and the community - 25 years ago to the week as it happens!
So! I hope you interloping *nglish bastards ******* well appreciate them!
I've never even seen them!
--
The adorable Adam Whyte-Settlar
- destined to be forever in the minority
MacP
Ask him!
Elaine Goldberg
A W-S wrote:
>If you are heading out towards Iona at
> any time will you check out the hillside
> on the left hand side of the road just
> before Pennyghail? Take a look at the
> young forest there. All the way from the
> road to the skyline. My friends and I
> planted that hill when I was in my 20's.
I remember reading this post at the time. Thanks for re-posting it.
<snip>
>So! I hope you interloping *nglish
> bastards ******* well appreciate them!
> I've never even seen them!
I think it's a shame that you've never seen them! I planted a tree in
the back yard of my first home as a 'bride' in Illinois many years ago.
I've never been back to Illinois once we moved to Colorado. I've often
thought about the tree etc., but I'm better off not returning, as it
would be too bittersweet for me.
Elaine
Adam Whyte-Settlar
> make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
> bolts on the record!
>
> Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
I *was* going to let you all know about the upcoming broadcast but being the
reticent, decent sort of chap I am I didn't want to steal any of Craig's
thunder. I mean Lord knows he gets little enough as it is.
However, as in most of the TV and radio programmes about me, there are some
serious inaccuracies.
For a start the bit about the ewe is complete tosh.
She came on to *me* and not the other way round.
Also, with regard to the twins, it wasn't my idea to send them to Fettes -
the local school at Rosemarkie is one of the best schools in Scotland and I
would have been quite happy for them to attend there. They would have had
all of the other black-face twins from the Black Isle to socialise with for
a start.
Also, it wasn't my fault I never made it back with the whiskey from Opan yon
time. The tractor got bogged down in the new plantation just ouside of
Pennyghail and I would have near to died had I not a supply of the magic
personal heating fuel to keep me going til big Morag happened along to pull
me out.
I explained all this to them at the time. Not my fault if I was slurring so
much they couldn't understand me.
I might well be given the right to reply shortly so I will put the record
straight then.
A W-S
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"Ian Morrison" <iomor...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:a0a5123d9b29660dc2...@mygate.mailgate.org...
> "MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:438f7f62.34095016@news
>
> > I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
> > make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> > workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> > I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
> > bolts on the record!
> >
> > Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> > better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
> >
> > http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
>
> It sounds like the Easter Ross chappie has a lot of Irish in his
> immediate ancestry.
Bollox - I know the ******* well - he's a Rosshurr manny through and through
and sounds exactly so.
Magnus
> Also, with regard to the twins, it wasn't my idea to send them to
> Fettes - the local school at Rosemarkie is one of the best schools in
> Scotland
All very well, but you can't get the black pudding any more
since the butcher shut. :-(
Magnus
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4391...@clear.net.nz...
.
> the local school at Rosemarkie is one of the best schools in Scotland .
Er... make that the local school at Fortrose.
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"Magnus" <magnusUNDERS...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:83fkf.5965$Yo5....@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Is that right?!
Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.
I don't eat fried congealed blood all that often but I well remember the
bastard charged me 17 quid for a fillet stake about 20 years ago.
I do miss Mario's though - the best Italian ice cream in the whole of
Rosemarkie.
A W-S
MacP
Thank you Adam - It never fails to amaze me how little some people
known about the Highlands; Scotia terra incognita est for many, I
suspect.
I hope you enjoyed the mp3 - it was a tribute to my affection for you
as one of the most interesting and provocative posters in this group -
admittedly not too tough a title to acquire...
MacP
I planted an apple tree when I was young and many years later my
mother was pleased to inform me that the tree had become too old and
gnarled to bear good fruit, so it had been chopped down...
MacP
<grawi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:438f7f62.34095016@news...
>> I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
>> make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
>> workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
>> I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
>> bolts on the record!
>>
>> Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
>> better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>
>I *was* going to let you all know about the upcoming broadcast but being the
>reticent, decent sort of chap I am I didn't want to steal any of Craig's
>thunder. I mean Lord knows he gets little enough as it is.
>
>However, as in most of the TV and radio programmes about me, there are some
>serious inaccuracies.
>For a start the bit about the ewe is complete tosh.
>She came on to *me* and not the other way round.
The bloke always get the blame - that's the way it is...
>Also, with regard to the twins, it wasn't my idea to send them to Fettes -
>the local school at Rosemarkie is one of the best schools in Scotland and I
>would have been quite happy for them to attend there. They would have had
>all of the other black-face twins from the Black Isle to socialise with for
>a start.
Like being at school in Nigeria!
All those healthy Ovis aries/Homo suprasexualens relationships...
>Also, it wasn't my fault I never made it back with the whiskey from Opan yon
>time. The tractor got bogged down in the new plantation just ouside of
>Pennyghail and I would have near to died had I not a supply of the magic
>personal heating fuel to keep me going til big Morag happened along to pull
>me out.
>I explained all this to them at the time. Not my fault if I was slurring so
>much they couldn't understand me.
>I might well be given the right to reply shortly so I will put the record
>straight then.
The Committee is considering your desperate plea...
MacP
But at least you can stand at the Brahan Seer's mini-monument and
cheer yourself up by imagining that the grey-faced bastard is being
burned alive right in front of you as you watch!
MacP
"...Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
Still there's always the pension...
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:4391af04.4874328@news...
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 23:45:40 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"
> <grawi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Ian Morrison" <iomor...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:a0a5123d9b29660dc2...@mygate.mailgate.org...
> >> "MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:438f7f62.34095016@news
> >>
> >> > I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
> >> > make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> >> > workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> >> > I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts
and
> >> > bolts on the record!
> >> >
> >> > Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam
Whyte-Settlar -
> >> > better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
> >> >
> >> > http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
> >>
> >> It sounds like the Easter Ross chappie has a lot of Irish in his
> >> immediate ancestry.
> >
> >Bollox - I know the ******* well - he's a Rosshurr manny through and
through
> >and sounds exactly so.
>
> Thank you Adam - It never fails to amaze me how little some people
> known about the Highlands; Scotia terra incognita est for many, I
> suspect.
Ignore the ignoramus - the Dingwall/Contin accent was spot on gadgiecoff.
You even got that repulsive nasal intonation just right - and granted not
easy for a man of your conspicuous disabilities.
> I hope you enjoyed the mp3 -
Notwithstanding the blatantly denigratory and libelous content I thought it
hilarious.
The PFD nearly cracked her ******* mudpack.
A W-S
PS: My lawyer will be contacting you shortly.
Adam Whyte-Settlar
> >I think it's a shame that you've never seen them! I planted a tree in
> >the back yard of my first home as a 'bride' in Illinois many years ago.
> >I've never been back to Illinois once we moved to Colorado. I've often
> >thought about the tree etc., but I'm better off not returning, as it
> >would be too bittersweet for me.
> >
> >Elaine
> >
>
> I planted an apple tree when I was young and many years later my
> mother was pleased to inform me that the tree had become too old and
> gnarled to bear good fruit, so it had been chopped down...
: )
Tree planting can be one of the most rewarding or heartbreaking of
experiences.
Funnily enough a few days ago I checked on a planting scheme I laid out up
in the valley here a few years ago when I first arrived.
They had been doing amazingly well - the growth rate here is about 3 times
that of Scotland.
However, this time it looked as though a herd of dinosaurs had attacked
them - some of the best specimens were broken in two and a lot of the rest
had been smashed and ripped apart.
I presume it is the result of the 100mph 'southerly buster' that ripped
through here last month, either that or a herd of cows might have escaped
and browsed them.
Dunno - shit happens.
On the bright side I can visit dozens of places in the Highlands and see
decorative natives, both in gardens and plantations, that are at least 40ft
tall and vibrantly beautiful and know that it if it wasn't for me persuading
gullible landowners to contribute to my outragious profits as a landscaping
contractor or, later, a woodland consultant, they wouldn't be there at all
at all.
I planted my first trees - a group of silver birch - in a Hampshire garden
when I was eleven.
One of these years I'll make it back to see if they have been turned into
firewood or are a major landscape feature.
In my long experience in the biz the odds, sadly, are overwhelmingly on the
former.
A W-S
Only one in 5000 Oak saplings will die of over-maturity.
Landscape Gardeners are two and a half times more likely to commit suicide
than average. (true)
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:4391e3a4.8855803@news...
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:11:00 GMT, Magnus
> <magnusUNDERS...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawi...@hotmail.com> wrote :
> >
> >> Also, with regard to the twins, it wasn't my idea to send them to
> >> Fettes - the local school at Rosemarkie is one of the best schools in
> >> Scotland
> >
> >All very well, but you can't get the black pudding any more
> >since the butcher shut. :-(
> >
> >Magnus
>
> But at least you can stand at the Brahan Seer's mini-monument and
> cheer yourself up by imagining that the grey-faced bastard is being
> burned alive right in front of you as you watch!
My best (surviving) friend was part of the Fortrose School team who erected
that monument.
Back around 1968 it must have been.
More recently, I and a bunch of other cynical hoodlums used to venture out
there to try out luck at javelining the Dolphins that come quite close to
the shore near that point.
We lured them in close with tail-hooked salmon as live-bait.
Still others used to cheat and used bazookas mounted on tripods to balst the
*******.
Not very sporting but rather effective - I've just found a picture that
someone captured on a phone-cam and tried to use as evidence against us.
He's dead now.
http://www.theoldhometown.com/fortrose-and-rosemarkie/pictures/157.jpg
A W-S
Ian Morrison
> More recently, I and a bunch of other cynical hoodlums used to venture out
> there to try out luck at javelining the Dolphins that come quite close to
> the shore near that point.
> We lured them in close with tail-hooked salmon as live-bait.
> Still others used to cheat and used bazookas mounted on tripods to balst the
> *******.
> Not very sporting but rather effective - I've just found a picture that
> someone captured on a phone-cam and tried to use as evidence against us.
> He's dead now.
> http://www.theoldhometown.com/fortrose-and-rosemarkie/pictures/157.jpg
If you had been more successful with your dolphin-killing activities the
Moray Firth would now be overrun with porpoises, so it's just as well
you were such an incompetent lot.
Elaine Goldberg
A W-S wrote:
>I planted my first trees - a group of silver
> birch - in a Hampshire garden when I
> was eleven.
>One of these years I'll make it back to >see if they have been turned
into
> firewood or are a major landscape
> feature.
If you expect to be in that neck of the woods in the next few years, why
not plan the visit to coincide with the next SCS get-together? Admit
it. You're dying to meet all of us. :)
Elaine
MacP
<grawi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
That's true, I don't have the flapping honker which appears to
characterize the Whyte-Settlar tribe - and their black-faced
offspring, of course - so it's damned hard to get that Dingwall nasal
whine pitched just right...
>
>> I hope you enjoyed the mp3 -
>
>Notwithstanding the blatantly denigratory and libelous content I thought it
>hilarious.
>The PFD nearly cracked her ******* mudpack.
I had a feeling the poor wee soul could use a laugh...
>
>A W-S
>PS: My lawyer will be contacting you shortly.
I think we may have done time together in the past - is that Stephen
Copinger; the one who does that commercial - you know "Committed a
crime? Don't call a cop; call Copinger!"
MacP
A few days before my wife died, she asked me to take her for one last
drive through our local park; Stanley Park, 1,000 acres of unspoiled
bush in the city centre. I wrapped her up warmly, carried her to the
car and off we went. As we drove, I spotted some tiny coniferous trees
with green cones (I have sharp eyes), stopped the car and went to pick
some for her. She loved them and when we got home, asked me to put
them on the shelf at her bed so she could smell them. Nine days later
she died and I found the cones, now opened, beside her, so I put them
away for a memento. That was nineteen years ago.
About two years ago I came across the cones again, in a drawer. I sat
looking at them for a little while and then went out to find the
trees. They had become towering giants. Then last year a friend and I
drove by them and they were gone. I asked the Parks Board what had
happened to to them and was told that one had fallen across the road
during a windstorm and so it was thought safer to remove them all.
I had a very definite sense of a chapter closing. I understand now why
older people say their surroundings have become foreign as the
landmarks of younger years vanish one by one.
One of the last things my wife said to me was to thank me for choosing
Vancouver for us to live in. We loved the city. Here's why:
http://www.mwtech.com/rw/photos/Canada/Vancouver/
Almost all the wooded area shots are Stanley Park.
MacP
Nice shot - you must have butchered them ruthlessly with all those
expensive cameras...
MacP
Meet? Don't you mean "mate"? The man does have a reputation to
maintain, you know!
Patrick MacPhuck
Hear hear.
I planted a lemon tree and a fig tree in my garden in Botswana in 1987.
I sometimes dream about whether they are still there or not. I wouldn't
bet on it...
Pat
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:439308cd.3186822@news...
> I had a very definite sense of a chapter closing. I understand now why
> older people say their surroundings have become foreign as the
> landmarks of younger years vanish one by one.
There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
Of lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all.
And with all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life I loved you more.
Elaine Goldberg
MacP wrote:
>Meet? Don't you mean "mate"? The man
> does have a reputation to maintain, you
> know!
Maintain? Or live down? :)
Elaine
Adam Whyte-Settlar
Yeah - javalins aren't the best dolphin harvesting implement unless you can
get them to go right through it at some narrow point and thus brace the rope
against the other side. We just enjoyed the challenge I suppose.
They are apparently a pretty sick school ( the dolphins not Fortrose). The
pollution from Invergordon and formally from Inverness before the new sewage
works opened wot gets the blame.
At certain times of the year I watched them every morning on the way to
work - they used to ride the bow wave of the Cromarty to Nigg works ferry.
We tried scewering them with the boat gaff for a larf sometimes but, sick or
not, they are slippery buggers and we rarely caught more than a few.
Sorry.
A W-S
The Real Fifeshire Bimbo
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"The Real Fifeshire Bimbo" <h...@AwaAnBileYirHeid.com> wrote in message
news:3vi94gF...@individual.net...
No - Lennon fan.
Adam Whyte-Settlar
>Beatles fan?
>
> No - Lennon fan.
Though, unlike the two-faced, muck-raking British media, I thought the
long-haired, peace-nik, pinko was one of the greatest poets of the 20th
century *before* he died.
He was wasted in his early days - should have told Epstein to piss off and
got himself a decent backing group.
MacP
The latter, I suppose...
MacP
I'm touched Adam - I never knew you cared...
(It's also a very insightful poem.)
Patrick MacPhuck
Notice how the 'wrong' two died first?
Pat
Adam Whyte-Settlar
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:43944633.6608682@news...
> I'm touched Adam - I never knew you cared...
You still don't.
> (It's also a very insightful poem.)
Yeah - apt - more to the point it saved me the bother of writing something
myself.
A W-S
Robert Peffers
"MacP" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:438f7f62.34095016@news...
>I managed to get most of this broadcast about Adam Whyte-Settlar and
> make it into an MP3, although I'm not fully conversant with the
> workings of the Audacity recording software as their site is down and
> I can't download the manual. Still, I think I got most of the nuts and
> bolts on the record!
>
> Amazing - first Craig Cockburn on the BBC and now Adam Whyte-Settlar -
> better get your throat lozenges ready, you other SCS stars!
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/micheil/adam.mp3
>
> "Mur a bi i gun tarrag, 's ann LEAMSA!"
> "If she ain't nailed down, she's MINE!"
>
these are available to download from their website.
--
Aefauldlie, (Scots word for Honestly),
Robert, (Auld Bob), Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
Web Site, "The Eck's Files":- http://www.peffers50.freeserve.co.uk