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To move from Entry to Bronze.
This sheer Slope Shaming will not keep Bonnyrigg down. The good citizens of Midlothian will be assembling at NDP with shovels and spirit levels at dawn.
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33 minutes ago, CarrbridgeSaintee said:
It has been on my radar for quite some time! How long are you over for?
Over for a week.
Today started with a trip out to Skara Brae. I was more taken with the wee farm shop nearby selling cakes and milkshakes, than the 4,000 year old village. Clearly I’m not a fan of those “shuffle slowly around an ancient site with two tour bus loads, exit via the gift shop and cafe” experiences which Historic Scotland specialises in.
Afternoon in Stromness, mainly to join the Ness Battery tour. An army barracks from the war with huge guns sighted over the entrance to Scapa Flow. Much of the buildings still intact including the stunning paintings inside the Mess. Another strong recommend for this tour.
As we waited for the tour a whole load of cars sped up as word had got out in the wildlife community that there were Orcas spotted in the bay. Some excitable pointing out to sea followed their competition of “who has the biggest binoculars”, but I was clearly always looking the wrong way.
Weather has continued to verge on atrocious at all times, but I can live with some rain.
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Finally made good on my long held intention of getting myself over to Orkney with my wee boy.
Not been here for even 24-hours yet, but I’m already a touch smitten.
The weather this morning was impressively wet, but since I’d pre-booked us onto the Hoy ferry as foot passengers, off we went into the storm.
The Scapa Flow Museum is outstanding. It’s as good a museum as any I can think of visiting. For war history, I’ve always thought the Verzetsmuseum in Amsterdam was quite a high bar for leading you with a sense of place and time. Scapa Flow is in another league entirely. Think it’s had a recent makeover and that money has been very well spent indeed. Brilliant! We managed well over two hours in there plus lunch, which is about 1:50 longer than I lasted in V&A Dundee!
The sun finally came out, the ferry crossing back to Houton was a stunner. It has been a pretty decent day all round, despite the sodden clothing!
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Queen’s Park 0 Livingston 1.
Oh boy, did it rain out there tonight! I haven’t seen rain like that since Scotland last played at Hampden.
The new Lesser Hampden is a mix of the surprising and the frustrating. The one stand that has been built is actually very decent, no complaints at all about it.
To stare around the two and a half vacant ends with their assortment of skips, cabins and puddles was just to see the opportunity wasted here.
And the Presidential Palace over on the other side just looks hideous.
Doubt I’ll be back, not through choice, but because they flit again in only a couple of months and who knows what will become of Lesser thereafter.
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POTM: no touches first half, soaked to the skin, turned up for duty in the second half. Indefatigable. Yes, it’s the ballgirl at the Hampden Bowl end.
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Seems the rain is teeming into the Wendy box? Bad planning. Shame.
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1 hour ago, RH33 said:
My wee one isn't mad on sport but is a bit of a head banger so think shiny might be a shout. Have done a bit of looking but can't find kids training in west Scotland.
Any pointers?
Probably cutting it ultra fine here, but Glasgow Mid Argyll have a kids shinty camp this coming week running at their park in Yoker.
I’m certain they’ll also have a kids section for regular training sessions.
Seemed like a friendly wee club when I visited them.
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Not massively encouraged by this filing. Next accounts are now not due to be filed until 31 March 2024.
Perhaps a 30th June accounting date is sensible for a football club to use, but it doesn’t reek of transparency.
The 31st December had been in use since at least 1985 (as long ago as the online filing records go back to).
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Annan Athletic v Carlisle United.
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Another football team in Edinburgh changing their name.
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Preston Athletic 10 Linton Hotspur 0.
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I can’t think of a single ground where I wouldn’t be able to drive over, at a reasonable time, park for free (without annoying a local), and walk a short distance to the ground.
Even when going to Hampden for Scotland games, there are places to go, and places to avoid.
If you don’t know the area around a particular ground, just do a wee scout on Google Maps, and you’ll find somewhere to aim for no bother.
The only difficult place immediately springing to mind is Firhill, but only because I’m still trying to get my head around the new(ish) parking restrictions in that part of town.
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I had a weekend in Tarbert booked in August, primarily to do a wee bit of walking on Gigha.
I am absolutely ecstatic to see that my trip coincides with a home tie against Easterhouse. First home league game of the season too, should be a good crowd in for it.
I’m away to look up the bus times and the Springbank tour times. I can feel a plan coming together!
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Peace in our times.
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Kelty Hearts 2 Raith Rovers 2 (Rovers won on penalties).
Fife Cup encounter at Kelty. Only came so I could tick it off for £10 instead of whatever passes as a gate fee here for normal games. Good crowd in for this, 800 odd Fifers.
Highlight of the day was walking over the Forth Road Bridge beforehand. (I didn’t walk on to Kelty, in case you wondered.)
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I see Steve Marsh has been over to the Faroes. One video posted up, more to come.
I’m very tempted, verging on hitting “book”. Wee bit out of my comfort zone, but I need to break my habit of Scottish Islands / European city breaks!
Will likely be booking up for next Spring as I will need my holiday year to roll forward first.
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Saddened to read about this. As so often with a death, you partly mourn for the person lost, and partly for your lost youth.
Craig Brown was manager of Clyde when I went to my first ever game (Clyde v Aberdeen at Shawfield in the Scottish Cup 1984).
My next encounter with a team of his must have been the U16 World Cup in 1989. Amazing memories of the huge crowd inside Tynecastle as we beat the Portuguese all-stars in the semi, and then the infamous Saudi Arabian final at Hampden.
He then managed a superb U21 team and I remember some cracking fixtures at Pittodrie around that era.
His progression to the Scotland job was inevitable. I bloody loved that whole period as a Scotland fan around Euro 96 and France 98. Fitting that as he passes we seem to have finally found a promise of the good times again, I’m sure he would have taken some comfort from our recent results.
Some of my favourite ever Scotland games in that period. Austria at Celtic Park being the first jumping to mind, but there were a lot of great days out. Estonia at Rugby Park, qualifying against Latvia. Good times!
He turned ok individual players into good football teams, and he always gave the impression of being a decent bloke with it.
Sympathies to his family, who I’m sure will know that he was a much loved figure in our game.
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Full draw is taking a while to filter out.
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Cumnock v Hurlford R2.
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They’ve stopped the draw now to watch Elton John.
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Vale of Leven win the Willie Wonka golden ticket with a draw away to Campbeltown Pupils in R1.
Winner at home to Kilwinning in R2.
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Gretna v Darvel R2.
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Clydebank v Ardeer / Beith R2.
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Broomhill or Neilston v Eglinton or Irvine Meadow.
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Making our way around Orkney. Was quite overcome in the Italian Chapel, and it wasn’t just from the smell emanating from that party of cyclists. A truly stunning place.
Just a couple of full days left now and we’re aiming to get a couple of wee mini cruises on the Orkney Ferries out to the likes of Wyre and Stronsay. Let’s see how we get in with that.
Only gripe so far would be that none of the distilleries here seem to allow kids on their tours. Wee lesson for them: on Islay they welcome kids into their distilleries, always with the warm welcome at the door, and the result is that I leave with a car jingling away like a Bon Accord juice van. Here I’ll be leaving with zero whisky in the car. The money I’ve saved will likely be recycled back into my holiday pot for the next Islay trip. Something for them to ponder. It’s not just the cruise ship visitors who would buy their stuff if they got their proposition right.