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Re: Scottish Food

I was always fond of finnan haddie myself; poached in milk and served with mashed tatties. Last had, with a nice beer, in an Irish pub in San Francisco. As you do.
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:34 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Scottish Food
Replies: 9
Views: 3560

Re: Not really interesting facts about yourself

banjo wrote:anytime since you are hungryjoe.addional info to tempt the tastebuds.....some were haggis and some were spicy chicken.


Haggis samosas? Really??

How do they work; got a recipe you'd like to share? (Not that getting haggis in Melbourne is all that easy, but it can be done!)
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:28 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Not really interesting facts about yourself
Replies: 11092
Views: 3522698

Re: BrigitDoon's Bomb Shelter

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Now, if you're toting a half brick in yon handbag, you'll definitely be pinched for having an offensive weapon !
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:19 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: BrigitDoon's Bomb Shelter
Replies: 815
Views: 274128

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

This is St Mungo's church, isn't it? Pretty much nothing like it around the New Town. Just occurs to me now, looking at your photo Dex,that I regret never having been in it. Last time I was there, a few years back, I was looking for the old road that runs down from the church, heading towards the du...
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:07 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874643

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

Nobby wrote: Before the bridge was built at Kildrum Parish Church, you crossed Jane's Brae further up, on a temporary footbridge made of scaffolding. This was just next to the current footbridge on which they've just finished refurbishment. There's a reference to this at http://www.its-called-cumbe...
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:52 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874643

Re: Subway today

Mori From an outsider's point of view it might be worth your researching Melbourne's Myki (pronounced "my key") system as a case study of how not to do it. In principle though, the idea (which already exists here) that the one ticket will get you from A to B, whether you have to use train,...
by Nobby
Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:36 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Subway today
Replies: 780
Views: 440326

Re: Rain, violence and chips: this is Glasgow,

Yes. Yes it is. Kirk is right. A proper chippie can't have frozen chips for goodness sake. Thon's bordering on the sacrilegious and deserves a damn good thrashing. Problem is Doorstop, chips (or Belgian fries, to give them their proper name) are supposed to be cooked twice. If frozen means the chip...
by Nobby
Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:43 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Rain, violence and chips: this is Glasgow,
Replies: 178
Views: 158589

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

What happened to the Kidrum cobbles that used to surface the car parking / garage areas alongside the ring road and elsewhere? I note from posts on the cobbles thread (by My KItten and Jamsie) that they believe these cobbles (setts) originated in Glasgow; which is what I was told too. Just curious a...
by Nobby
Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:33 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874643

Re: Old Bottles

I remember being a dinner guest in Exeter, about 20 years ago, and being offered a pre-drink whisky. I was much obliged until I saw it was a bottle of White Horse. (Oh, the memories of abusing quarter bottles of cheaper blends during my youth !) And it was brilliant. Turned out the bottle was inheri...
by Nobby
Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:47 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Old Bottles
Replies: 42
Views: 98238

Re: WANTED!! Ideas for new projects....

Trains, eh ? Remember looking through half a dozen boxes of lantern slides of steam choof choofs once. This was maybe thirty years ago. Slides came from the British Rail offices in Glasgow; Buchanan St ? And I was lead to believe there was a walk in cupboard of slides, and what I got to see was but ...
by Nobby
Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:45 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: WANTED!! Ideas for new projects....
Replies: 425
Views: 1018119

Re: Where did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

The Beer Bar, Strathclyde University Students Union, 1979. I was 17 during all of my first year. Used to have lunch there three times a week. Tartan Special was 32p a pint. You could add a double pie and beans, and a poke of crisps, and still get change from a pound!
by Nobby
Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:12 am
 
Forum: Pubs / Clubs / Restaurants
Topic: Where did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)
Replies: 148
Views: 269464

Re: Twenty Films That Make Men Cry

That bit where they drive in the fog over a bumpy bit of road.......... You know, I don't remember that bit Lone Groover... must have blocked it from my memory! Either that or my eyesight was even fuzzier at that point than I recall <sniff>. Talking of sniffles, there were quite a few in the cinema...
by Nobby
Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:47 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Twenty Films That Make Men Cry
Replies: 20
Views: 8719

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

Westfield (a good few miles from the village of Cumbernauld) was a farm situated quite near what is now Broadwood Stadium - home of the Bully Wee, aka Clyde FC who used to kick a baw in the vicinty of Dalmarnock/Ru'glen. The mention of Cumbernauld on the headstone would have referred to the parish ...
by Nobby
Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:16 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874643

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

@ Knightmare. Ah, yer a sweet talker ! @ PPM. Completely off topic. Just been reading your thread on the Garbethill tombs. Fascinating. And I know absolutely nothing about them. But got me thinking of one of my own urban expeditions, earlier this year. Went looking for a tombstone in Melbourne Gener...
by Nobby
Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:59 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874643

Re: Necropolis

I used to visit the Necropolis with my late dad, then later myself when I was at the varsity next door. This in the early eighties. It was the only place I ever found pink bluebells growing, amongst the headstones. And presumably the bulbs are still there? White bluebells were "common" in ...
by Nobby
Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:32 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Necropolis
Replies: 99
Views: 147274
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