lanky_ffc Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Saw this posted on Facebook: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyblair Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have an empty until Saturday night as my wife and daughter are away down South. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have an empty until Saturday night as my wife and daughter are away down South. Excellent,ill bring the chipsticks party at yours 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Mac Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) Doing more research on my family history, my great grandfathers family originally came from Greenock. Edited February 14, 2012 by A-Mac 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyblair Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Excellent,ill bring the chipsticks party at yours I fucking love Chipsticks. Salt & Vinegar mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallo_Madrid Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I fucking love Chipsticks. Salt & Vinegar mind. I've a packet sat beside me - i've done well not to have gubbed them yet. You get a big old bag for 39p. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebanda's Handyman Services Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Doing more research on my family history, my great grandfathers family originally came from Greenock. Offft! Sare ane. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Doing more research on my family history, my great grandfathers family originally came from Greenock. That's interesting... any more details? Whereabouts, what they did, etc... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffcsam Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Doing more research on my family history, my great grandfathers family originally came from Greenock. I see your location is in Australia. Mmmm, Convicts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Think im losing my marbles. I went to go out to tesco last night and when i got in the car i realised i'd left it in gear AND left the handbrake off. Thank god i wasnt parked on a hill. I also left the tumble dryer on when i went out, nearly burning the flat down in the process. Deary me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunfellaff Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have an empty until Saturday night as my wife and daughter are away down South. Empty what??? House, sac, fridge, head??? We DEMAND to know! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Empty what??? House, sac, fridge, head??? We DEMAND to know! Have you never watched Kevin Bridges you fool? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Mac Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 That's interesting... any more details? Whereabouts, what they did, etc... Apparently my great great grandfather arrived on the Derry Castle in Jan 1855. Apparently when he arrived in Australia he was one of the most successful Reefers? not sure what that is. He also went in partnership with a guy named John Sands, they were involved in stationers & printers. I see your location is in Australia. Mmmm, Convicts? No 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Apparently my great great grandfather arrived on the Derry Castle in Jan 1855. Apparently when he arrived in Australia he was one of the most successful Reefers? not sure what that is. He also went in partnership with a guy named John Sands, they were involved in stationers & printers. These days a reefer is a refrigerated shipping container, but containerisation only took place in the 20th century. I don't think ships were refrigerated before that but they could have been? To answer my own question -or to let Wikipedia do it - apparently reefer ships existed by the early 1800s in the USA. Perhaps it existed in Australia too, but where would they have got the ice from? Shipping ice from New York to Virginia is one thing... then again there's mention of shipping chilled meat from Australia to the UK by 1900 so that might be it? Maybe he got into that business early. Or maybe reefer means something completely different in Australia 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky_ffc Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have an empty until Saturday night as my wife and daughter are away down South. Excellent,ill bring the chipsticks party at yours I'll shite in the kettle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Mac Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 These days a reefer is a refrigerated shipping container, but containerisation only took place in the 20th century. I don't think ships were refrigerated before that but they could have been? To answer my own question -or to let Wikipedia do it - apparently reefer ships existed by the early 1800s in the USA. Perhaps it existed in Australia too, but where would they have got the ice from? Shipping ice from New York to Virginia is one thing... then again there's mention of shipping chilled meat from Australia to the UK by 1900 so that might be it? Maybe he got into that business early. Or maybe reefer means something completely different in Australia Could well be, need to do a bit more investigating This was the article written in a local newspaper when he died. A profound feeling of regret was occasioned in the city this morning by a report, which unfortunately proved to be true, that Mr Dugald Macdougall, the town clerk of Sandhurst, and a gentleman who was held in very high esteem by his numerous friends, had died in a very sudden manner. It appears that the deceased gentleman, who for some years past had been suffering from heart disease, was at 5 o'clock this morning seized with a violent pain in his chest. The usual remedies were applied, but these having no effect, and Mr. Macdougall rapidly growing worse, Drs. Cruickshank and Landvoigt were sent for, but about 7 o'clock, before either of these gentlemen arrived, the patient died. He was 46 years of ago, and a native of Greenock, Scotland. Mr. Macdougall was one of the first and in earlier days most successful reefers of Bendigo. He arrived here in 1855, and was the first to erect powerful machinery on the Victoria Reef. His speculations for a period turned out very prosperously, but subsequently he had a long series of reverses in mining. In 1867 he was elected a member of the City Council, in which capacity he continued to act until 1876, when he resigned, and was appointed to the position of town clerk, which he occupied up to the time of his death. Tor the duties of this office he was peculiarly well fitted. He was also a member of the honorary Bench. The deceased gentleman was a brother of Mr Macdougall, of the firm of Sands and M'Dougall, of Melbourne. The funeral will take place on Sunday. This notice was also published in the Tasmanian paper, The Mercury. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryfield Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I forgot just how good a cheese and onion toasty wi loads o' black pepper really is. Fcukin loverly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunfellaff Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Still trying to figure how Obama could have won a Grammy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11thHour Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Seriously bored In work. Not a thing to do and it's torture. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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