Let's have some CULTURE!

[Fifeshire Floozie]

Here's a friend from Dunfermline Mary :)
'Tartan Oscar' for singer Barbara DicksonBy BRIAN FERGUSON
Published on Thursday 15 November 2012 07:03


ALMOST half a century after breaking into the folk scene in Fife, one
of Scotland's most successful singers will be honoured with a lifetime
achievement award from the music industry this weekend

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/tartan-oscar-for-singer-barbara-dickson-1-2634238

You can hear her sing (great voice) here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtinf9Hc0k&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLED9B288B8013FBDC

Cheers, Helen
--
Kind words are the music of the world.
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
English priest and writer
(1814 - 1863)

[S Viemeister]

On 11/15/2012 8:43 PM, Fifeshire Floozie wrote:
> Here's a friend from Dunfermline Mary :)
> 'Tartan Oscar' for singer Barbara DicksonBy BRIAN FERGUSON
> Published on Thursday 15 November 2012 07:03
>
> ALMOST half a century after breaking into the folk scene in Fife, one of
> Scotland's most successful singers will be honoured with a lifetime
> achievement award from the music industry this weekend
>
> http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/tartan-oscar-for-singer-barbara-dickson-1-2634238
>
> You can hear her sing (great voice) here...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtinf9Hc0k&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLED9B288B8013FBDC
>

And she's a lovely person, too, not just a great voice.

When I had to give up my flat in Edinburgh to go home and care for my
mother, Barbara inherited my bed, and some of my kitchen stuff!

[Mary]

"Fifeshire Floozie" <htr.@faeFife.com> wrote in message
news:aglk26...@mid.individual.net...

> Here's a friend from Dunfermline Mary :)
> 'Tartan Oscar' for singer Barbara DicksonBy BRIAN FERGUSON
> Published on Thursday 15 November 2012 07:03

> ALMOST half a century after breaking into the folk scene in Fife, one of
> Scotland's most successful singers will be honoured with a lifetime
> achievement award from the music industry this weekend
>
> http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/tartan-oscar-for-singer-barbara-dickson-1-2634238
>
> You can hear her sing (great voice) here...
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtinf9Hc0k&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLED9B288B8013FBDC

Very nice. I haven't known of her for very long. By the time she was well
known in the UK in the 1970's and 80's as it says in one of the links above,
I had been in Canada quite a while, and wasn't in touch with the music scene
there. I only heard of Barbara Dickson at the time Susan Boyle became well
known and i was looking up information about Susan and came across Barbara
Dickson's name and a biography saying she was from Dunfermline. I wonder
where she lived in Dunfermline. It's not often you hear of someone famous
from there.

Barbara Dickson seems to have done very well in her singing career. She
sings a song with Elaine Page which I like - "I know him well". Elaine sang
that with Susan Boyle on a show after Susan was well known. I like a lot of
Andrew LLoyd Webber's music. Thanks for the links Helen.

Mary

[Mary]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
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Did Barbara Dickson move from Dunfermline to Edinburgh? I guess you could
say you had a connectin with her :>)
It's a long way from Edinburgh to N.J. You've been around. Got your
generator yet?

Mary

[S Viemeister]

On 11/15/2012 11:09 PM, Mary wrote:

> Did Barbara Dickson move from Dunfermline to Edinburgh? I guess you could
> say you had a connectin with her :>)

When she decided to give up her clerical job in Rosyth and go full-time
into music, she moved to Edinburgh. We were planning on renting a flat
together, so her mother invited me out to their home for the weekend, to
make sure I wasn't going to be a bad influence...
I passed the parental exam, but before we found a suitable rental my
mother became very ill - I went home to care for her.

> It's a long way from Edinburgh to N.J. You've been around. Got your
> generator yet?
>

Only about 5 hours by jet! And no, we haven't yet bought a generator.

[Séimí mac Liam]

"Fifeshire Floozie" <htr.@faeFife.com> wrote in

news:aglk26...@mid.individual.net:

> Here's a friend from Dunfermline Mary :)
> 'Tartan Oscar' for singer Barbara DicksonBy BRIAN FERGUSON
> Published on Thursday 15 November 2012 07:03
>
>
> ALMOST half a century after breaking into the folk scene in Fife, one
> of Scotland's most successful singers will be honoured with a lifetime
> achievement award from the music industry this weekend
>
> http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/tartan-oscar-
> for-singer-barbara-dickson-1-2634238
>
> You can hear her sing (great voice) here...
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtinf9Hc0k&feature=rellist&playnext=1&l
> ist=PLED9B288B8013FBDC
>
> Cheers, Helen

You Scots have such cheery ditties.

--
Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

[conway caine]

"S�im� mac Liam" wrote in message news:XnsA10D3C...@74.209.136.99...

"Fifeshire Floozie" <htr.@faeFife.com> wrote in

You Scots have such cheery ditties.

****Considering the climate they dwell in, they do still maintain a certain
amount of,.... er....., curmudgeonry, don't they??

[Mary]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message

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> On 11/15/2012 11:09 PM, Mary wrote:
>
>> Did Barbara Dickson move from Dunfermline to Edinburgh? I guess you could
>> say you had a connectin with her :>)

> When she decided to give up her clerical job in Rosyth and go full-time
> into music, she moved to Edinburgh. We were planning on renting a flat
> together, so her mother invited me out to their home for the weekend, to
> make sure I wasn't going to be a bad influence...
> I passed the parental exam, but before we found a suitable rental my
> mother became very ill - I went home to care for her.

Did you know Barbara for a long time? Was she from Dunfermline originally or
from Rosyth? Were you from Rosyth? It must be interesting to know someone
who became well known later on. After Barbara became well known in music,
did you ever see or hear from her again?

I'm glad you passed the parental exam, but it was good you went home to take
care of your mother and Barbara probably moved away from Edinburgh
eventually.

I went to Rosyth several times when I was a kid. A couple of my cousins
lived there.Many people who lived in Dunfermline and other places around
worked at Rosyth Dockyard. My mother worked there during the war and always
talked about it.It was there a long time after the war. My aunt lived in
Pattiesmuir, a hamlet near Rosyth. My cousin in Pattiesmuir used to take me
to nearby Limekilns to ice cream store. The houses and whole village so
picturesque. A friend drove me to Pattiesmuir and Limekins again 8 years
ago. They looked the same as when growing up. Quiet and nothing like the
hustle and bustle of Toronto with its gridlocked traffic,and busy
lifestyles. I think it would be nice to live there. Many good changes, yet
the same historical towns. Totally different from living in a big city where
I've lived for many years.

I've only been back to Dunfermline twice since we emigrated but have a lot
of second cousins there who I am in touch with. My mother went to Scotland
almost every year for 45 years. She always took a lot of photos while there.
She liked Canada but loved Scotland. She was from a large family so had many
people to visit there. I was married when I was 18 in Canada, and had 3 kids
by 25 so I was pretty busy :)

>> It's a long way from Edinburgh to N.J. You've been around. Got your
>> generator yet?
>>
> Only about 5 hours by jet! And no, we haven't yet bought a generator.

I mean its a long way to move - very different lifestyles.

[S Viemeister]

On 11/16/2012 3:00 PM, Mary wrote:

> Did you know Barbara for a long time? Was she from Dunfermline originally or
> from Rosyth? Were you from Rosyth? It must be interesting to know someone
> who became well known later on. After Barbara became well known in music,
> did you ever see or hear from her again?
>

I met her when she was 17, and she was singing in folk clubs. I was an
organiser of one of the Edinburgh clubs. She was from Dunfermline, but
worked in Rosyth Dockyard. We lost touch in the mid/late 70s, after she
moved to England and I got married.

>>> It's a long way from Edinburgh to N.J. You've been around. Got your
>>> generator yet?
>>>
>> Only about 5 hours by jet! And no, we haven't yet bought a generator.
>
> I mean its a long way to move - very different lifestyles.
>

Yes, that's true. There are even major differences between Edinburgh and
Sutherland, which is where I stay when in Scotland.

[Mary]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message

news:agnr9k...@mid.individual.net...

> On 11/16/2012 3:00 PM, Mary wrote:
>
>> Did you know Barbara for a long time? Was she from Dunfermline originally
>> or
>> from Rosyth? Were you from Rosyth? It must be interesting to know someone
>> who became well known later on. After Barbara became well known in music,
>> did you ever see or hear from her again?

> I met her when she was 17, and she was singing in folk clubs. I was an
> organiser of one of the Edinburgh clubs. She was from Dunfermline, but
> worked in Rosyth Dockyard. We lost touch in the mid/late 70s, after she
> moved to England and I got married.

On one of the links you gave me in your other message.She says she left
Scotland in 70's and she and husband are moving back to Scotland next year.
I listened to Barbara and Elaine Paige today when they sang a duet on
Youtube. They sang well together. If she is 65 on the picture on the link
you gave me, she looks very good for 65.

>>>> It's a long way from Edinburgh to N.J. You've been around. Got your
>>>> generator yet?
>>>>
>>> Only about 5 hours by jet! And no, we haven't yet bought a generator.
>>
>> I mean its a long way to move - very different lifestyles.
>>
> Yes, that's true. There are even major differences between Edinburgh and
> Sutherland, which is where I stay when in Scotland.

There were differences when I used to go for holidays to Lanarkshire, but
only in some things. But maybe there are more differences between Edinburgh
and Sutherland. I have been to Edinburgh many times as it is not too far
from Dunfermline, but never been to Sutherland. I've been in Inverness and
other places in the Highlands - beautiful scenery, but never been to the far
north to Sutherland. :>)

Mary

[S Viemeister]

On 11/16/2012 6:27 PM, Mary wrote:

> There were differences when I used to go for holidays to Lanarkshire, but
> only in some things. But maybe there are more differences between Edinburgh
> and Sutherland. I have been to Edinburgh many times as it is not too far
> from Dunfermline, but never been to Sutherland. I've been in Inverness and
> other places in the Highlands - beautiful scenery, but never been to the far
> north to Sutherland. :>)
>

If this were Facebook, I'd show you a few photos of our place on the
north coast. It's _very_ different from the Central Belt.

[Mary]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message

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I've thought about Facebook, but it's not something I am really interested
in doing as I have other things on the Internet I am more interested in when
I go on the Internet. But if I join, I will let you know. You don't have a
site you can upload your photos to, do you? I used to occasionally upload
photos to Photobucket but that was a while ago. maybe not even in business
by now.
I think you used to be able to specify who can view your photos and who
can't I think though its been a while.

[killwhang]

On Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:54:01 AM UTC+13, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 11:09 PM, Mary wrote:
>
>
>
> > Did Barbara Dickson move from Dunfermline to Edinburgh? I guess you could
>
> > say you had a connectin with her :>)
>
>

Did you shag her?

[S Viemeister]

On 11/16/2012 9:43 PM, Mary wrote:

> I've thought about Facebook, but it's not something I am really interested
> in doing as I have other things on the Internet I am more interested in when
> I go on the Internet. But if I join, I will let you know. You don't have a
> site you can upload your photos to, do you? I used to occasionally upload
> photos to Photobucket but that was a while ago. maybe not even in business
> by now.
>

The top photo on this page
<http://www.jamescanalpages.org.uk/ian/nw_scot.htm>
was taken from the top of my driveway by the late Ian O. He had given me
a lift from my uncle's home in Corstorphine.

[conway caine]

"S Viemeister" wrote in message news:agpo63...@mid.individual.net...

The top photo on this page
<http://www.jamescanalpages.org.uk/ian/nw_scot.htm>
was taken from the top of my driveway by the late Ian O. He had given me
a lift from my uncle's home in Corstorphine.

**An uncanny resemblance to the Southern Appalachians.
Odd how the Highland Scots settled in the flat, hot areas of eastern North
Carolina rather than in the mountains.

[Mary]

"Fred J. McCall" <fjmc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Most folks just stick their pictures up on FaceBook in albums, Mary.
> Photobucket still exists. There are others, like Picassa.

Yes, I know a lot of people are on Facebook. I have checked Facebook site
but it's more of a social media site and I am not that interested at the
moment. It takes me enough time browsing on the Internet browsing, doing
searches and answering emails. I see Sheila posted a message here today.She
found a way to let me see the scenery in Sutherlland and other places in
Scotland.

[Mary]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message

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Sheila, thanks for the above link. Ian did a wonderful job on his website. I
read a lot of what he wrote and some of what his sister wrote, and it was
very interesting. Ian was a wonderful photographer. His photos are
beautiful. The view from the top of your driveway is spectacular. Was your
house behind the trees in the foreground? Do you still live there or is that
where you used to live? It looks like a very remote area. Were you born in
Sutherland? I can't imagine living in a house with a view like that. I don't
know if I could adjust, but would love to be there on holiday. Sutherland is
described in most sites as being very sparsley populated with beautiful
beaches and hills.

One of my relatives just outside Dunfermline lives close to a loch and when
I visited him, I said to him you have a lovely view from your back window
with the loch so close. It doesn't have high hills like in the highlands,
but beautiful just the same.

I liked growing up in Dunfermline. It gave me an appreciation of old castles
and old architecture and old history as Dunfermline was once the ancient
capital of Scotland and has the ruins of Dunfermline palace where King
Malcolm of Scotland and Queen Margaret of Norway once lived. Also ruins of a
monastery across the road from the palance ruins. Dunfermline 12 century
abbey is in same area where Robert the Bruce's body is buried. I passed
those places every day on my way to high school but I didn't give much
thought to the ruins. I had to go back to realize the historical influence.
I took a lot of photos last time, mostly of Dunfermline as I was only there
2 weeks.I would like to go back.

The highlands have quite different scenery than other parts of Scotland. In
some maps Fife is described as being in the central/east scotland which is
how I would describe it. Its different from the highlands and different from
the Lowlands.

Thanks Sheila, for the link to Ian's website. Its fanstastic with great
pictures and information. He wrote of anncestry on his mothers side who came
from Kilmichael Glassary in Argyll. My father was born in that area. He and
family moved to Fife when he was a boy. So that was an interesting part for
me as the towns and villages there were small. Maybe they even knew each
other.
I have seen a few parts of Ian O's website before, but it was quite a while
ago. He was not very old when he died- unfortunate.
BTW, wasn't there another Ian who used to sometimes post Scottish scenery
photos here - Ian Smith?

Mary