Keep posting immediately after BeeDee...Happy Christmas and thank you for the spectacuar vista!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
If anyone's going to be in the crowds in the High Street of Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) at midnight on the 31st, remember to lob an empty bottle at the clock on the Tron Kirk and then kiss every lady you can in the mob - including policewomen Anything goes at New Year !
If anyone's going to be in the crowds in the High Street of Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) at midnight on the 31st, remember to lob an empty bottle at the clock on the Tron Kirk and then kiss every lady you can in the mob - including policewomen Anything goes at New Year !
Precisely why Edinburgh would be one of the last places where I would wish to be on Hogmanay night, way too much drunkenness for my liking. I certainly wouldn't want to end up in hospital if I got accidentally hit by one of those stray flying bottles.
Ah well, each to their own.
Regional Director for Scotland for Clan Cunningham International, and a Scottish Armiger.
I must admit I only went to the Tron one New Year. It was dangerous as you say (what goes up must come down) and too blooming cold. I only went because we were going on to a party later. All the other New Years, we were either at someone’s house party (usually student nurses) or at a night-club party or were in a hotel or pub with a promise of a house-party later.
Anything goes at New Year !
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