Sweet Pete

Let's just agree that everything's in the west.

It's impressive that they had the technology to draw that map in 1500.

Ha! The swear filter kicks in when you type his name!

This is entering virginton territory of what is and isn't coastal.

You can, you just need to ask for it. But no-one does, because it's stinking. But it isn't flat! You're at it, you cheeky monkey.

Inverness sits on the Moray Firth, it's in the East!

The 2nd one. The first one's moot as everyone knows Embra's full of p***ks.

Who'd have guessed Throbber of all people would be the voice of reason?!

It's the worst accent going. I detest it. Thankfully (!) my accent is Weedgie.

See that coast where Ullapool is, that's the west. See that coast where Tain is, that's the east. You can't decide to change somewhere's location just because you prefer a long winded and innaccurate way of describing it!

Here's a helpful map of Scotland to show you what coast Tain is on.

That's small town mentality in reverse. Basically, schemies who've never left the borders of their own housing estate beyond trips to the city centre or the jail, so they assume any greenbelt, no matter how close to them it actually is must automatically signal hillbillies, when in fact they themselves are the hillbillies, just of a more concrete nature than the rural stereotype. *gets off of soapbox* Weirdly, in Clydebank, we always refer to going "up the toon" when going to Glasgow city centre as well, despite the fact it's only 8 miles away.

It refers to Gaels, and traditionally they have always been more prevalent in the North West and the Isles.

I actually really like Edinburgh. Dundee seems to have gotten a bit of a head of steam from the hipster crowd of late, but last time I was there it was still the small, crap, insular place it always was. Aberdeen is shite.

As someone from Edinburgh who rightfully moved to the much better city of Glasgow, you clearly have taste. In that case, I'll allow it.

Quite possibly, but that doesn't make it any less wrong.

Aye but you stayed there. I had a foot in both the North East and West Central Scotland, getting the best of both worlds (the small town, small mindedness of Tain and the poverty of Clydebank...).

No, because Teuchter is a derogatory term for people from the North West. Tain's in the North East. Sort out your understanding of regional racism.

I grew up in a mixture of a very old town and a new town, one of which has great architecture due to it's age and one of which has little great architecture as it's been in a state of near constant building and rebuilding since it was founded. My childhood home has some belters. Tain clock tower: Kenneth Murray monument, seen both from the edge of Rose Street gardens and also from the High Street: And the suspension bridge, which we had a great time bouncing on as kids. It was Victorian and very, very rickety so responded quite dramatically to kids jumping on it. I suppose we never truly believed that we'd possibly fall into the River tain below. They tried reinforcing it in recent years. I think they closed it as a dangerous structure recently too possibly:

Not strictly my hometown, but Glasgow Cathedral is a great building: Did some work recently in Turnbull Street and the building not only looks great from outside, but has an incredibly surprising inside-outside interior courtyard: Also did some work in this cracker in Morrison Street recently, which is as grandiose inside as it is outside:

I'm sure I heard years ago that that building was the largest built with red brick. I'm unsure how accurate that is, but as a kid I was always struck by the huge scale of it, and it was indeed all built from individual bricks rather than larger block, an unusual method.

Shite looking though.

Been working in New Gorbals lately and passed this numerous times. Had wondered what it was. A real waste of a building.

Titan Crane

Yeah, yet another new job, plus having the two kids now, keeps me very busy generally. Take it sleazy, P.