Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
NEW BLOG
A new Border Blog is at http://coldstreampipeband.blogspot.com/
This has just been started by the Coldstream Pipe Band and is a welcome addition to the very small band (no pun intended-band as in brothers and not as in pipers) of Bloggers in these parts. 11million bloggers in Iran and 11 in the Borders-that must tell you something* I am not a great pipee but I enjoy a stirring rendition of the Barren Rocks of Aden as much as the next man.But I hear(no pun intended) great things of the CPB and I am assured none of their members busk in Princes Street Embra, persauding the less nimble Japanese tourists to part with much specie in exchange for a rather daunting (and frankly horrible) ethnic experience. The Band would have to be very hard pressed to employ the Princes Street lot with their indeterminant kilts (Hunting Puke) and with live cats apparently trapped within their bag things. Anyhow go to the link above and enjoy some fine images
* Tells me that there are rather more people in Iran than in the Merse (Blogg-ed)
(Don't be so bleeding obvious-it tells us something else-Huttonian)
PS Huttonian's attention has been drawn to the first item on the blog at http://coldstreampipeband.blogspot.com/2006/08/remember-pre-fabs.html and specifically to Hutton's use by spies. Ours one hopes. Fishwick Special Brnch are feverishly looking through their files for collateral
A new Border Blog is at http://coldstreampipeband.blogspot.com/
This has just been started by the Coldstream Pipe Band and is a welcome addition to the very small band (no pun intended-band as in brothers and not as in pipers) of Bloggers in these parts. 11million bloggers in Iran and 11 in the Borders-that must tell you something* I am not a great pipee but I enjoy a stirring rendition of the Barren Rocks of Aden as much as the next man.But I hear(no pun intended) great things of the CPB and I am assured none of their members busk in Princes Street Embra, persauding the less nimble Japanese tourists to part with much specie in exchange for a rather daunting (and frankly horrible) ethnic experience. The Band would have to be very hard pressed to employ the Princes Street lot with their indeterminant kilts (Hunting Puke) and with live cats apparently trapped within their bag things. Anyhow go to the link above and enjoy some fine images
* Tells me that there are rather more people in Iran than in the Merse (Blogg-ed)
(Don't be so bleeding obvious-it tells us something else-Huttonian)
PS Huttonian's attention has been drawn to the first item on the blog at http://coldstreampipeband.blogspot.com/2006/08/remember-pre-fabs.html and specifically to Hutton's use by spies. Ours one hopes. Fishwick Special Brnch are feverishly looking through their files for collateral
Comments:
A bloggee not unconnected with the Coldstream Pipe Band has commented :
'Ah yes, thought you might see that, I think you should ask around!!'
Intriguing if not particularly helpful.So over to Fishwick Special Branch
'Ah yes, thought you might see that, I think you should ask around!!'
Intriguing if not particularly helpful.So over to Fishwick Special Branch
The same bloggee as above has revealed all:
"The Rutherford's referred to are the (now closed) agricultural engineering works that developed in Coldstream from the 1920's onwards, I suppose reflecting the increasing mechanisation of agriculture. There is really no trace of them now, other than the garage on the High St, which is now run by Dalgleish's. However, growing up in the 1970's in Coldstream, everyone's dad seemed to work there.
During WW2, Italian POW's were drafted into the works and brought a lot of light engineering skills with them. They were held just outside the town at what is now the golf course, hence the reference to 'Tally Hill'. The 1st hole at Coldstream has that name.
The spies I refer to are purely fictional and there to give a bit of spice. Presumably the Fishwick SB will not be amused. Hope we won't be fined for wasting polis time. We have no appetite to appear in front of Sheriff Kevin."
Thankyou. Pity about the spies as FSB had fingered a couple of possiblities.
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"The Rutherford's referred to are the (now closed) agricultural engineering works that developed in Coldstream from the 1920's onwards, I suppose reflecting the increasing mechanisation of agriculture. There is really no trace of them now, other than the garage on the High St, which is now run by Dalgleish's. However, growing up in the 1970's in Coldstream, everyone's dad seemed to work there.
During WW2, Italian POW's were drafted into the works and brought a lot of light engineering skills with them. They were held just outside the town at what is now the golf course, hence the reference to 'Tally Hill'. The 1st hole at Coldstream has that name.
The spies I refer to are purely fictional and there to give a bit of spice. Presumably the Fishwick SB will not be amused. Hope we won't be fined for wasting polis time. We have no appetite to appear in front of Sheriff Kevin."
Thankyou. Pity about the spies as FSB had fingered a couple of possiblities.
