tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64958638997740928332024-03-13T20:18:11.243-07:00North Sea KnitterAn ex-offshore Tigeress, home from the North Sea, wandering onshore and wondering "just what can I make with the 50km of very fancy string I have in the house...!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-57266003500061037812012-05-15T13:09:00.002-07:002012-05-15T13:09:27.322-07:00Slowly improving...<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
I think I'm starting to get the hang of this sewing malarky after all. I'm rather pleased with the latest creation - a <a href="http://www.sewserendipity.com/product_info.php?products_id=142">Monique Dress.</a> All created from some vintage fabric off Ebay and some cotton curtains from a charity shop back home. All created in time for wearing to a wedding next month.</div>
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Next we tackle French seams...!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-40471771477878636782012-01-23T08:16:00.000-08:002012-01-23T08:17:46.192-08:00So I started sewing!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>I finally got round to getting a decent sewing machine at the end of October 2011 as we had John Lewis vouchers we had received for our wedding back in 2010 and we had never got round to using them as being old buggers when we got hitched then we had most of the housey stuff you would get from JL. So, as long as I promised to get round to making stuff for my DB then a sewing machine was a'right. The rest of the vouchers went on a fridge freezer because we really know how to rock and roll!<br />
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</tbody></table> Ebay has been plundered for fabric and patterns. A theme is emerging of loud and in your face fabric just ripe for the 50's to 70's patterns that seem to be attracting me!<br />
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</tbody></table>There are mistakes (obviously) but everything is wearable in public! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The current pattern stash!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I'm happy with it all :-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire AB30, UK56.831345 -2.472517000000038956.823496999999996 -2.4867715000000388 56.839193 -2.4582625000000391tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-19314169151801741542012-01-23T08:01:00.000-08:002012-01-23T08:01:23.982-08:002011 wasn't as productive as 2010 but not bad considering the "stuff what happened"!It wasn't my most productive year but then I did also start sewing, albeit very slowly, which has slowed down the speed of production somewhat...<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/5544599344/in/set-72157626011297765">Lundish 1</a>, 2. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749172047/in/set-72157626011297765/">Jen's scarf</a>, 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749173377/in/set-72157626011297765/">Fruit Sherbet sock</a>, 4. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749174477/in/set-72157626011297765/">Botanical cowl</a>, 5. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749175975/in/set-72157626011297765/">Icing Swirl hat</a>, 6. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749177737/in/set-72157626011297765/">Regina Hat</a>, 7. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749178991/in/set-72157626011297765/">Obi socks</a>, 8. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749180421/in/set-72157626011297765/">Vignette Cardigan</a>, 9. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749182381/in/set-72157626011297765/">Asa jumper</a>, 10. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749183963/in/set-72157626011297765/">Drop Stitch scarf</a>, 11. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749294541/in/set-72157626011297765/">Retro Forest Jersey</a>, 12. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749296969/in/set-72157626011297765/">Que Sera</a>, 13. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749301245/in/set-72157626011297765/">Olivia</a>, 14. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749304687/in/set-72157626011297765/">Pembroke wrap</a>, 15. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/madebymojo/6749380989/in/set-72157626011297765/">Blankie Cardi</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-12203870862562407182011-10-28T01:44:00.000-07:002011-10-28T01:44:45.027-07:00What I said...<div class="post-content"> <h3><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_669477709">#147</a></h3><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_669477709">Knitting is not the new yoga or other such trendy analogy. It is knitting in its own right and has been around for centuries. I’m not knitting to be cool, hip and happening. I’m knitting because I like making stuff!</a><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-50814172561223217192011-10-15T01:19:00.000-07:002011-10-15T01:19:52.920-07:00I am an Offbeat Bride!It finally happened. I submitted our wedding to <a href="http://offbeatbride.com/2011/10/scotland-humanist-wedding">Offbeat Bride</a> and got the shock of my life last night when I wandered over to the site for a looksee and saw a very familiar photo in the sidebar. A tad surreal to say the least, especially as it all seems so long ago!<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Myself and Derek got married, humanist style, in front of 3 friends and our Mum's. It was lush :-)</div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-53367254819320998642010-01-09T13:14:00.000-08:002010-01-09T13:14:09.236-08:00Puddling aboot...<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've actually managed to finish something this year already...but I did start it on my birthday last year so that means it took me 8 months to knit this...</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-39521838190358882522009-12-20T11:11:00.000-08:002009-12-20T11:11:23.745-08:00And then there was pie...Game pie for Christmas made by my DB...what a clever boy :-)<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-9396697930758698452009-12-18T07:20:00.000-08:002009-12-18T07:36:20.525-08:00What next?A<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">t the start of the year I was still living in Aberdeen, trying to sell my house, working offshore and having a relationship with someone I loved very much but not actually staying full-time in the same house as him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/3200604475/">Wiggly scarf</a>, 2. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/3205619125/">Teva shoulder cosy</a>, 3. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/3662176349/">Retro buttons</a>, 4. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/3662180205/">Retro Bonnet</a>, 5. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/3662982920/">Beach Sandals</a>, 6. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/4146263489/">Rosamund's Cardigan</a>, 7. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/4152069479/">Fluffy teacosy</a>, 8. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/64696600@N00/4152829882/">Tilly Mink hat</a> <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-45992216613046861902009-11-24T01:33:00.000-08:002009-11-24T01:34:19.373-08:00Twist Fibre Craft Studio - Kim Hargreaves Roadshow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunday involved a visit to my Mammy and the <a href="http://www.twistfibrecraft.co.uk/">Twist Fibre Craft Studio</a> at Newburgh in Fife because they were holding a <a href="http://www.kimhargreaves.co.uk/">Kim Hargreaves</a> roadshow. It was so fine to try on lots of the sample garments just to get an idea of what suited and what didn't. I already have the Heartfelt book so Mum got me Amber and Thrown Together as part of my Christmas. She's also got me a couple of hours of spinning tuition as well for next year so I'm happy.</span><br />
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</div><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I was about 7 or 8 me and my brother stayed at our grandparent's up at Africa Cottage. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a wee but'n'ben type place up the Kirbister road with no mains electricity and an </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">outside loo and it was always an adventure to stay there, especially as I slept in a box bed </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when I was there. A real princess bed. Anyway, one night we were staying there and I was </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in my sleepwalking phase. My Grandad followed me through as I went and stood in front of </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the mantelpiece and stared in front of me. He asked me what I was doing. I said nothing. He </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">suggested I go back to bed and I obviously didn't appreciate that suggestion as I put my arm </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">out and swiped everything off the mantelpiece in front of me including the clock that they </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">got years ago (I think it was a wedding present). I then scarpered off to bed. I honestly had no </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">memory of doing any of this the next morning. Anyway the clock got fixed and from then on it </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">became known as "Maureen's clock" and Granny promised me that it was mine when she died.</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So here it sits on my mantelpiece, ticking away in a comforting way, the sound of my </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">childhood. The inside of it still smells of Benson and Hedges even though Granny gave up </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">smoking 3 years ago!
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</div><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I asked if I could have Granny's old baking tins and funnily enough no one else objected! </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the tins (2 bun (cupcake) trays and 2 sandwich tins) are from the wartime (she got </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">married to my Grandad in 1943) and on their last legs but I'll see how long I can keep them </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">going. I spent an awful lot of helping Granny to bake and she would have probably got a lot </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">more buns out of the basic mixture if I hadn't been helping! She spent a lot of time making </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">nice things that brought a smile to folk's faces and I like to do the same. When my other </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Granny died I asked for her knitting needles and sewing box because that's what I remembered </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">her doing. While an inheritance involving money can be nice and helpful it's not always a </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">relevant reminder of who it is that you've lost. I find social domesticity inherently interesting </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and the passing on of skills, knowledge and love is a better thing to leave behind than anything </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">else.</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The one other thing she left me is who I look like and who I am now. Through her I'm a Velzian, </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spence and a Brown mixed up with Heddle's and Rosie's on the other side. There's a rake o'folk </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that look like me and me like them. I was mistaken for my Mum this time I was home because I </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">look so much like her. We're dark and small and "duggit" (stubborn) as hell. </span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas Hardy says it best...
</span></pre><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></pre><div style="text-align: center;"><pre style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.
The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance -- that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die</span></i>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-63693463095768228332009-10-14T05:40:00.000-07:002009-10-22T10:17:14.197-07:00I went somewhere...<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I left the joys of Laurencekirk behind last week to head to London with two aims in mind! One was to visit Ally Pally and the ace Knitting and Stitching Show - and to try and not overspend at it. The second was to see how far I could get down the route of finding frocks/finalising ideas on what my bridesmaids would be happy to wear.</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-34761618927203141572009-09-22T10:35:00.000-07:002009-09-22T10:37:06.015-07:00Definitely going to learn to sew cos fashion is so crap at the moment!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok - I know most of these were found in Top Shop but they are so pigging awful. Obviously none of the buyers/designers were around in the 80's to remember how hideous most of this stuff was then but they must have seen pictures of their mother's in this gear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think I must have been a member of a library since I was about 7 and I remember Granny Heddle taking myself and my cousin into Kirkwall to join. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's the oldest public library in Scotland and was founded in 1683 - obviously its not in the same building now...or got very few of the books that were around at the time! I used to have a real obsession with the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1046008">Drina books</a> by Jean Estoril at one time but I can't really remember which other books I used to get out of the library. Then there was all the ones I persuaded Mum to buy for me or that I got with my pocket money - Enid Blyton's <a href="http://www.enidblyton.net/st-clares/">St.Clares</a> and <a href="http://www.enidblyton.net/malory-towers/">Malory Towers</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet_School">Chalet School </a>series by Elinor M.Brent-Dyer, progressing onto the <a href="http://sweetdreamsseries.com/the%20books/the_books.htm">Sweet Dreams</a> imprint in my teens. I obviously had a bit of a thing for book series - especially if set in a boarding school. Who knows what the attraction was at the time but I enjoyed them!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now the obsession is with cookery and craft books - damned heavy when you're moving house!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-18310648126668525562009-09-07T01:57:00.000-07:002009-09-15T13:17:00.233-07:00Surprise...no excuses now!On Friday I received a housewarming present from my honey. I love him to bits anyway but especially when he surprises me with such lovely thoughts. It was totatally unexpected and did bring a slight degree of bubbling to my face. It also means I have no excuse after saying how much I've wanted to learn to spin...like about 5 years! At the moment it's in the state below...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWaY6U7noXrkolaKlCuYbPEeo0VDrJvqrJNMSB1_fj4JhMcxu7NpcgCkXr_mT5-DujEwOeg1UkdVcFje_HPi9HvBir5KQAICE7kfcRxprMMepai32gKqz42oCubkh5QnvdcNLP5U3clY/s1600-h/DSC04678.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWaY6U7noXrkolaKlCuYbPEeo0VDrJvqrJNMSB1_fj4JhMcxu7NpcgCkXr_mT5-DujEwOeg1UkdVcFje_HPi9HvBir5KQAICE7kfcRxprMMepai32gKqz42oCubkh5QnvdcNLP5U3clY/s200/DSC04678.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378647321365261330" border="0" /></a>Hopefully - later on today, it'll look more like this...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTukOKABdOGQnRQ_KbusB9Zk0ETwHdgaycxZ85cxqjLYCqJcOUQRBX_txCLgqXceM_RiPK6Ki3B6axGYMN7v6qUJhYXoN66k2iIVnin1y6JICVYR7ZR_sm9jwp6yvdfacbi94WD_txMk/s1600-h/nkiwi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTukOKABdOGQnRQ_KbusB9Zk0ETwHdgaycxZ85cxqjLYCqJcOUQRBX_txCLgqXceM_RiPK6Ki3B6axGYMN7v6qUJhYXoN66k2iIVnin1y6JICVYR7ZR_sm9jwp6yvdfacbi94WD_txMk/s200/nkiwi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378647837768298850" border="0" /></a>Then I have to learn how to use it...more stash enhancement opportunities await...!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-16747012779189882262009-09-04T09:25:00.000-07:002009-09-15T13:17:00.244-07:00You know you are Scottish if…..<p>- You consider scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine as good weather.</p> <p>- The only sausage you like is square.</p> <p>- You have been forced to do Scottish country dancing every year at secondary school.</p> <p>- You have a wide vocabulary of Scottish words such as numpty, aye, aye right, auldjin, baltic…</p> <p>- You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever Scotland play a ‘numpty’ team like the Faroe Islands .</p> <p>- You happily engage in a conversation about the weather with someone you’ve never met before.<br /></p><p>– You got Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals at Xmas.</p> <p>- You can tell where another Scot is from by their accent – “Awright, pal, gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur Sun ? Cheers, magic pal.” Or “Fit ya bin up tae ? Fair few quines in the nicht, eh ?”, etc</p> <p>- You see cops and hear someone shout ‘Errapolis’.</p> <p>- You have eaten lots and lots of random Scottish food like mince ‘n tatties, Tunnock’s Caramel Logs, oat cakes, haggis, Cullen skink, Lees Macaroon Bars, etc.</p> <p>- Whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of vomit as that’s what the jannies used to chuck on it at school.</p> <p>- You lose all respect for a groom who doesn’t wear a kilt.</p> <p>- You don’t do shopping… you ‘go the messages’.</p> <p>- You’re sitting on the train or bus and a drunk man sits next to you telling you a joke – and asking ‘Ahm no annoying ye ahm a?’ and you respond ‘Naw, not at a’, yer fine. This is ma stoap, but’.</p> <p>- You know that ye cannae fling yer pieces oot a 20 storey flat, and that seven hundred hungry weans’ll testify tae that. Furthermore you’re sure that if it’s butter, cheese or jeely, or if the breid is plain or pan, the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae wan.</p> <p>- Your national team goes 2-0 up again the Czechs in a qualifier in Prague and your mate says we’ll end up losing 3-2 here and you think “Probably”.</p> <p>- You can properly pronounce McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, and Auchtermuchty.</p> <p>- Your favourite pizza is deep fried and battered from the chippy.</p> <p>- You’re used to 4 seasons in one day.</p> <p>- You can fall about drunk without spilling your drink.</p> <p>- You can understand Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like them in your own family.</p> <p>- You know what haggis is made with and still eat it.</p> <p>- Somebody you know used a football schedule to plan their wedding day date.</p> <p>- You’ve been at a wedding where the footie results were read out.</p> <p>- You aren’t surprised to find curries, pizzas, kebabs, Irn Bru, nappies and fags all for sale in one shop.</p> <p>- Your seaside holiday home has Calor gas under it.</p> <p>- You know that Irn Bru is an infallible hangover cure.</p> <p>- You use terms such as “How’s it hingin’?”, “clatty”, “boggin”, “cludgie”, “dreich”, “bampot”, “bawheid”, “bawbag” and “dubble nugget”.</p> <p>AND FINALLY….. You understand all the above and are going to send it to your pals.</p><p>P.S. And to add a few more...</p><p>- You can spot the tourist...they're the one using a brolley</p><p>- You can go out wearing only a short-sleeved shirt (male) or mini skirt, cropped top and nae tights (female) in December and don't end up in A&E with hypothermia at the end of the night<br /></p><p>- You know if someone is fae Glasgow or Edinburgh depending on if they take vinegar or brown sauce on their chips<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6495863899774092833.post-46509320674823106672009-08-25T05:55:00.000-07:002009-09-15T13:17:00.263-07:00One last time...!Checked in. Waiting on the paraffin budgie to take me home. Put on the survival suit in 20 minutes. Walk up to the helipad and get on the chopper home. Probably fall asleep. <br /><br />No more early morning starts. No more Bristow's breakfasts when I'm delayed. No more helicopter flights. No more having to share a cabin with some stranger. No more having to fit in with a bunch of strange men. No standing out just because I happen to be female and have been known to talk about testicles and bowel movements!<br /><br />It's been interesting, exciting, boring, aggravating, annoying, enlightening, educational, useful, demoralising, frustrating, amusing and different.<br /><br />No more offshore tigress...back to being a pussycat!<br /><br />Career change awaits...I wonder what?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0