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Kirkintilloch looking ready for Saturday.

Easthouses Lily v Newtongrange Star is a proper derby: 0.824 miles from one centre spot to the other! A great draw for both teams.

If you’re wondering how to fill a Thursday afternoon once the 2024/25 season has finished (Celtic won the league, Scotland got relegated from Nations League but are improving under new manager David Moyes, and the Ibrox redevelopment is coming along nicely but Hampden has been put on standby for 2025/26 just in case), well there’s this lecture on the history of football in Edinburgh. Part of the Edinburgh900 series of talks and lectures. Event publicised a fair bit in advance, a bit like TRSMT. https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/birth-football-edinburgh

My Dad was at this Killie game:

Hibs 5 Spiders 1. Those seagulls are terrifying. I hope the last person in that stadium tonight gets out alive. They looked hangry!

Hello @TASC_1878. See what I said below. I’d reckon the social club (right behind the main stand) is your best bet. Give them a call and book your bus in? Otherwise I’d just park your bus up and explore. All the pubs are within five minutes walk of the ground - which is at the dead centre of the town - and I’m sure they’d all love to receive you. To be honest, I’m not 100% sure which pubs in Bonnyrigg will and won’t admit children. I imagine the Beetroot does, and I imagine the social club does, but I’ve never tried to take my child to either. Don’t want to send you the wrong way. If you want certainty, the closest venue which I can think of which definitively does welcome children is the Justinlees in Eskbank, but that’s 1.5 miles away so hardly ideal unless your bus does a wee pitstop.

As the fifth Dundee goal goes in, the reviews are in on the cup thread…

Happy new season! Went to Irvine Meadow XI vs Cumnock Broomhill in a prestigious pre season clash. Best player on display was Erin Cuthbert, the game itself was a bit tame (as would be expected perhaps, this being a friendly). Anyway, all was not lost. I had a nice wee wander along Irvine beach beforehand, and a sticky bun from my favoured cake supplier.

Home v Home There’s every chance I will be making a weekend of it.

Groundhop 2025 appears to be: Friday 14th March Cumbernauld Colts v Broxburn 7:45pm Saturday 15th March Harthill v Dalkeith 11am West Calder v Kennoway 1:45pm Bathgate v Easthouses 4:30pm Albion Rovers v Bo’ness Utd 7:45pm Sunday 16th March Linton Hotspur v Livingston Utd 12:30pm

Just made some ground improvements. The stand is now fully covered.

Sleat & Strath AFC v Fort William Reserves. Ross Cup Quarter Final. Relocated from Mackinnon Park, Broadford to the Plockton High School NaeG’s pitch due to incessant rain for the last week. By a very happy coincidence I’m staying literally next door this week on an ill-deserved summer holiday. Obviously I had to pop my head out the back door and watch this. The SAS have taken a 1-0 lead at HT. Crowd is at least 20, perhaps even 25. Plus a billion midge.

Irrelevant. My main point was regarding Harry Gow’s Dream Rings.

Don’t like the use of the term “cuckoo” carelessly thrown about to denigrate another poster. Not a good look in 2024. Do like a Harry Gow Dream Ring. Bought one in the Church Street cooperative tonight to sustain me on this train journey through to Kyle of Lochalsh. To recap: Down with mental health based insults. Up with “sweet dream rings are made like this”. Be sweet.

New island for me today: Raasay. An island off an island off an island. Wonderful wee place. Dreadful weather today. On the ferry over the BBC weather app was promising a 100% chance of rain in the next hour, which cheered us right up. But it was worth coming across regardless. Some of the views on the drive out to Arnish were spectacular.