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To believe that a very high % of mumsnetters are Scottish

849 replies

greedygal · 13/06/2014 20:40

I get this impression and have no idea why - is this my imagination or is this the case?

Where are you originally from?

I am thoroughly English.

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OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:13

I don't spit on it! I am a naice Perthshire lass.

PrimalLass · 14/06/2014 00:14

Fizzy juice
Diluting juice
Juice
Wine
Buckie

Laughing lots at the "weegie board" and 50 shades of Glasgow.

My DP still queries "the back of" with time too. Idiot. But he is a weegie living in Fifeshire so needs to get with the programme.

PhaedraIsMyName · 14/06/2014 00:16

OOAOML yes, rural comprehensive for me, Primary and Secondary on the same complex and co-ed Merchant School for my son with same set up.

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:16

Or narrow minded and blinkered? There are some nice parts of Edinburgh, but we don't live in them. I just I wish he would consider the possibility of moving out. And we are afflicted with the complete shambles that is Edinburgh council (although to be fair crap councils are not limited to here, my sister says hers in England is crap too)

OldLadyKnowsSomething · 14/06/2014 00:17

www.edinburghnotes.com/places/heart-of-midlothian.html Why people spit on the Heart of Midlothian. (NB, not the FC)

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:19

I imagine some people spit on the FC as we'll OldLady Wink

EddieStobbart · 14/06/2014 00:19

I remember DH gobbing on it when we first started going out but he was born "dahn sauf" despite having Scottish/Welsh parentage and has a very southern accent so he was just trying too hard. My revulsion put a stop to it - and I think his DM would have been very unimpressed

WildThong · 14/06/2014 00:20

That's interesting, thanks. I didnot know that.

giraffescantboogie · 14/06/2014 00:22

I have seen people being called a troll for talking about their child being on holiday/being in a soft play in June by people in England who haven't realised the holiday differences.

PhaedraIsMyName · 14/06/2014 00:23

The same school all the way through is very common in Scotland in rural areas where the larger village/small town will have a primary for its immediate catchment area. It will also have a Secondary school. The smaller villages have Primaries only and country children will be bussed in for Secondary.

The private schools operate the system do the same. My son was at his from junior nursery at 3 to Secondary 6 at age 18

EddieStobbart · 14/06/2014 00:24

OOAOML, where would you like to live? Have been looking at West Lobton but roads so choked in the morning. My friend moved to Penicuik recently and her flat is beautiful, was far cheaper than her smaller Edinburgh place

EddieStobbart · 14/06/2014 00:24

West linton...

PhaedraIsMyName · 14/06/2014 00:24

I think the best you can say for Edinburgh's council is it isn't Aberdeen's council

EddieStobbart · 14/06/2014 00:28

Phaedra, it must be common where there has been a new school built. I grew up in a rural area and none of the schools had single location arrangement. Out of town we were bused to secondary school but the towns which contained the secondary school didn't have a primary school sharing the site.

PhaedraIsMyName · 14/06/2014 00:32

I'm boggled at juice meaning anything other than stuff that comes out of fruit and even then orange squash was never juice.

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:32

Yes I've heard bad things about Aberdeen Council. Actually I'm not sure I can think of anywhere that people don't complain about the council.

ComposHat · 14/06/2014 00:33

Deep fried pizza,that's your saturated fats fir lifetime

I know and all for a fiver too. That's terrific value in anyone's language.

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:33

Although Phaedra I believe we have quite a few spare trams we could offer to other councils!

PhaedraIsMyName · 14/06/2014 00:34

Mine did and it wasn't a new school wasn't new. My maternal grandfather and my mother went there.

Canthisonebeused · 14/06/2014 00:35

Scottish living in South since a very small child

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:36

Eddie Ideally I'd move back to Perthshire but for the moment my work is here and it would take too long to travel. I have wondered about finding somewhere on a good train line but not becoming attached to specific places as he just will not discuss it.

OOAOML · 14/06/2014 00:39

like Eddie where I grew up there were rural primaries and a secondary in town. No nursery schools or classes (I went to playgroup) but that could be my age (am 40s)

EddieStobbart · 14/06/2014 01:02

Phaedra, was that in Scotland? I don't doubt such arrangements exist, my query is purely because I grew up in a rural area and none of the local schools were structured like that. IME I've only directly seen private schools with a junior and senior school on the same site.

proudbi · 14/06/2014 01:04

I'm half Afrikaan and half Scottish been in Scotland since I was 4. I class my self as Scottish

Cirsium · 14/06/2014 01:06

English, but have lived in Scotland most of my life.