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The Tartan Army - Scotland 2026

PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
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Happy New Year to all the Scottish Shippies, and I hope you've all recovered from any festivities in which you may have partaken!

I also hope the thread title hasn't put a jinx on the footie team ...

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  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Had the neighbors over yesterday. His last name is McIntyre. Born in Scotland, raised in Australia. He told us the McIntyres had land they rented in Northern Scotland. The rent in the early 1700s was one calf and a summer snowball. One year they could not produce the summer snowball and were dispossessed. That's climate change for you.

    Wife and I both have Scottish lineage. Me through the Steward line.
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Not sure if I've ever shared this on the Ship but a DNA test revealed that I'm almost as much Scottish as I am Irish. This makes me very happy 😊
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Which side do you support in the rugby or football though? :mrgreen:
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Okay, I will go with Aberdeen Grammar in Rugby and Aberdeen FC in football.
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Which side do you support in the rugby or football though? :mrgreen:

    Ireland in rugby and Scotland in football 🤪
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    edited January 3
    Piglet wrote: »
    Which side do you support in the rugby or football though? :mrgreen:

    In so far as I follow either sport (and more rugby than football) then it’s Scotland in both.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Snow, snow, snow...

    Our parish church wasn't going to have a service tomorrow as we were having a joint service with another church. The other church is snowbound today, so tomorrow's service will be online.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    No more than a light dusting of snow here but it's a bit baltic! ❄
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I'm entitled to Irish citizenship, but that's partly because my ancestors (on my mother's side) moved from Scotland (Dumfriesshire) to Ireland (County Meath) many aeons ago...

    Like @MrsBeaky . I'm pleased to acknowledge the Scottish as well as the Irish connection. Mr Farage, which country would you like me to go back to?
    :naughty:
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    I'm entitled to Irish citizenship, but that's partly because my ancestors (on my mother's side) moved from Scotland (Dumfriesshire) to Ireland (County Meath) many aeons ago...
    :

    The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets)
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    I'm entitled to Irish citizenship, but that's partly because my ancestors (on my mother's side) moved from Scotland (Dumfriesshire) to Ireland (County Meath) many aeons ago...
    :

    The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets)

    Can't beat Sellar & Yeatman for a precis of a complicated situation!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    O. I seem to have spent most of my life living in brackets...
    :flushed:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited January 4
    I think there was a Prime Minister (can't remember which one) in 1066 and All That who was booted out of office for: "failing to answer the Irish Question"*.

    * there is no answer to this.
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    Deep snow here, even though we live 200 meters from the sea. I have persuaded Mr Cats that since the bus is not running, our tiny car will no be able to get him the 7 miles to his organ either. He then proposed to cycle and walk! I think I have reasoned him out of that as well…

    Meanwhile my work is cancelled this weekend, though I had a phone call last night from one of the bosses, who seems to be trapped in the old Stately Home here I work!
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Very little snow here, though a cold wind. I shall be driving very carefully to church in case there is ice.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    I'm off to a new church this morning, way over the other side of Glasgow in Kilsyth (oh the joys of itinerant preachers in the Methodist circuit, which now includes all of Scotland). The combination of new church, certainty of needing to de-ice the car and potential ice means I'm leaving earlier than probably absolutely necessary. With the merger of Scottish circuits I get to go to the even more exotic location of Stirling at the start of February. Hopefully there won't be snow for that weekend.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    No proper snow here; just a few wee Patches of Treachery™ from the few flakes that fell the other night and got frozen.

    The Orkney Facebook pages have been awash with tales of snow-related woe: they seem to have what for them is Quite A Lot; buses and ferries aren't running; people have had to abandon their cars in snowdrifts; and the police are telling people to travel only if absolutely necessary.

    Good luck to Alan and any others of you who have to be out and about - go carefully and stay safe!
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    We have 8 inches of snow here. It's just as well church was online today as the road to the church is blocked by a car which went into a snowdrift.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    Safe travels locally for me. The road from Croy down towards Kilsyth was a bit slippery, but not dangerously so (though the car behind me didn't seem to consider my decision to drive a wee bit below the limit coming down the road to be justified given their decision to stick in my boot). Advantages of conditions is I get to see named gritters, this morning Lord Coldemort.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I thought at first that Coldemort was a typo, but quickly saw the joke...
    :lol:
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    Mr Cats ended up playing for the local CofS service as their usual organist was snowed in, and we can (and did) walk there. He went earlier than I did, and when I set out there was a lovely blizzard. When I arrived the nice man on the door insisted on giving me a good brush down! It has snowed on and off since then. Don’t know if I will be getting far tomorrow.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I don't think I've ever seen the words "lovely" and "blizzard" in such close proximity before ... 🤔

    We had a tiny flurry of snow this afternoon, and the entire company at Evensong was three of us.

    It was actually rather nice.
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    I hope you're all keeping safe, both from the snow, and from the sort of idiot that thinks that snow won't affect him, because he has four-wheel drive.

    It's been several years since we've had what I'd call a "proper blizzard" in my part of the US, but I do enjoy the cameraderie that comes out when two feet or so of snow shuts everything down. No, you can't drive your car down the road, so you may as well get your shovel or snowblower and start clearing your driveway, and the sidewalk, and your elderly neighbor's driveway. It's one of the rare occasions when the whole community is out doing the same thing, because nobody can do anything else!
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    I headed out at 9am to clear my elderly neighbour's path to find that another neighbour had beaten me to it!
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    I had to drive Little Miss Feet to school as the buses weren't running, but the roads weren't too bad - snow very patchy and actually worst just in our township. Still driving very carefully, however.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I understand Orkney got a bit more snow last night; the schools were closed today and the air services were limited to inter-island flights.

    Still not much more than a dusting here, although the Council, bless their little cotton socks, had cleared a path on the pavement of the High Street, rendering my amble to work and back much less hazardous than it might have been.

    Alas, one of my colleagues wasn't so lucky: she slipped on a Patch of Treachery not far from her house yesterday and broke her arm. :(
  • cgichardcgichard Shipmate
    edited January 5
    Perhaps you should buy the Council some thick wool socks as a thankyou gift.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    We are still under an amber alert with a good foot of snow covering everything. It is very pretty.

    The Loon was supposed to head home yesterday but is staying an extra couple of days as there are no buses or trains running (trains should resume this afternoon).
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Arkland is a long way from Scotland, but please, pretty please, don't send any of your Sn*w down here...

    We have enough in the way of Frost to keep us indoors, effete Southrons that we are.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    All melted here, and the brief period of calm has given way to more gales and squally showers. And mud. Got a vehicle stuck again.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Arkland is a long way from Scotland, but please, pretty please, don't send any of your Sn*w down here...

    Most of ours has gone now; when I came out of work it was raining. As they say in Canada, you don't have to shovel* rain ... :mrgreen:

    * not that we've had enough to need shovelling, God be praised! :fearful:
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