Please unsubscribe me from all these lists. thank you James Devlin 30/11/02 12:21:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (scots-l-digest) wrote:
> >scots-l-digest Saturday, November 30 2002 Volume 01 : Number 436 > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:19:03 -0000 >From: "David Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: Maids of Arrochar > >Thanks for the information, especially the attribution to John MacDonald of >Dundee. Interesting that before making the enquiry we were messing around >with an arrangement that wove the tune around Scotland's alternative >national anthem, 'Hermless' by Michael Marra - of Dundee. > >Yours from the Twilight Zone, >David Francis > >t/f (44) (0)131 557 1050 (o); (44) (0)131 669 8824 (h) > >Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:51:49 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] St Andrew's Day > >The annual St Andrew's Day parade took place in Crieff today. Nine pipe >bands led the procession, while the Muthill Clarsach Ensemble tagged >along for the first time. I'll admit they looked a bit funny wheeling >their harps on custom-made trolleys before them, but man, there's >nothing like the sound of thirty clarsachs playing "If Ye're Scottish, >Come Oot That Press." > >The pubs and hotels do their bit, selling glasses of woad beer - it's a >fine tipple, but it's a little disconcerting to see all those blue lips >for weeks afterwards. After a couple pints everyone starts kissing each >other, although the thistle buttonholes that most people insist on >wearing kept the local health centre busy. > >The council were hoping Jock Tamson's Bairns would come up and help >with the Blessing of the Tartan, but all we could afford was Geoff >Bartleby's Toddlers, whose twin washboard players really made the >rhythm rattle along. Dance? Dod, we danced, hoochin', wheechin' and >pechin' all afternoon in the square. When Bella McNab joined in wearing >only a saltire (why do they make these flags so small?) and her >trademark corset, the pavements bounced. Why she left the band she >formed (was it in the 1940s Dave?) I'll never know; nobody can inspire >people to go off and lead better lives than Bella. As we say in these >parts, "Bella, Bella!" > >A local St Andrew's Day custom is toasting the lion and unicorn, two >stone carvings on top of pillars in the square. Seems a few years ago >the Conservative Club complained about the size of their respective >genitalia, saying that it was alright for that sort of thing in "the >old days" but that Crieff is a "better place" now, and perhaps for the >sake of modesty the offending parts should be shortened. A public >battle of words and wits ensued, but it was a journalist for the Crieff >Clarion, whose "Lion Too Rampant; Unicorn Too Horny?" banner headline >stopped the pro-dockers' campaign in its tracks. A re-enactment with >cardboard scissors seems to be popular with Crieff women. > >So how did YOUR town celebrate St Andrew's Day? > >- -- >Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ > >Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > >------------------------------ > >End of scots-l-digest V1 #436 >***************************** > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
