Brilliant things about Scotland

[JennyPiccolo]

Just cos I love Scotland.

The banter
Irn bru
Men who look like they grew out of the ground
How everyone sees going out and having a good time as some kind of fundamental human right
Edinburgh fringe festival
The barrowlands ballroom
Whisky

Findo Gask is a brilliant name, it must be ancient.

Places like Enzie and Kirkgunzeon anyone?

GentleOtter, ah the wee railway at Arbroath! Forgot about that too. This thread is making me remember so many little things from my childhood that I forgot, 'tis lovely!

and when someone says "och, he's got a face like a horse in a huff" they're usually absolutely right!!

zukie, a few years ago I read a restaurant review (or it may have been the Chippie of the Year in the Sunday Post ) for the chippie in Inverbervie, and I was delighted that it supported my childhood memories.

Is that a real place Zukiecat?

I believe Findo Gask in actually 2 very small villages callled Findo and Gask. Still, seeing the sign means I am on my way to Perth.

Thanks for the link Scottishmummy.

Favourite Scottish writers too,

I like them all Alasdair Gray, Kelman, Tom Leonard and Violet Jacob plus Robert Louis Stevenson and James Hogg.

I am away to you tube , Tuttie Frutti, Deacon Blue, Mary's Prayer and Strawberry Switchblade...

Temple of Fiddes.

Scottishmummy that never fails to make me laugh. Have you seen ? Very funny....

Re Scottish writers, Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Stuart McBride....

[love Tartan Noir]

Ah yes, Kerrs miniature railway. He was my history teacher at school. I took ds1 on the railway last year, it's still on the go!

I didn't know that Sunnyside had closed. I remember going there as a child with the dancing school to entertain the patients. We might have gone to sing christmas carols with the sunday school as well.

Tutti Frutti! I loved Tutti Frutti. Can't believe they never repeated it and you can't buy it. Victor Meldrew saying "Ms Toner". Pure magic.

The people.

Lived in London, Glasgow & Edinburgh.

Glasgow is by far the friendliest. I miss the openess and directness you get when you live there - it isn't weird to chat to strangers. Two or three mums in a playpark - or course you start to chat away - normally turns out you have some kind of connection anyway! I had lots of park aquaintances when I lived in Glasgow which was nice - made you feel very settled.

I have tried to take some of this with me to Edinburgh - people not so chatty though! I think some of them think I might be a bit weird! It is a much more visually beautiful city though.

Yama, you can buy Tutti Frutti! I did.

And yes, it's as good as you remember it being.

Re Tutti Frutti - you can buy it - me mam has the dvd.

OldLady I could kiss you. I must've been in my early teens when I saw it. It really had an effect on me. Not sure what that effect was ...

Article in yesterday's Courier about Sunnyside

And thanks Scotgirl too.

I've never seen that before Esme, how did I miss it?
So, so funny and in my experience of trying to give my details on the phone to some disembodied voice, very, very true.
And my Scottish accent isn't that strong.

Actually Zukiecat it's 'definItely!
There is a lack of all things scots in my life since my Gran passed away.
I love the sound of someone from Edinburgh saying 'turkey'! I love being called 'Hen' or 'Bairn'.
'it's been years since anyone asked me "do you think I came up the Clyde on the back of a Finnan Haddie?"
Other things I love about Scotland?
David Tennant,
Gerard Butler,
Jack Vettriano,
Volcanoes!

Mm, second Visocchi's ice cream, and Fisher & Donaldson coffee cream towers [greedy emoticon]

And music: seeing live music in Scotland is so much better.

And the Wickerman festival in unspoilt countryside; lochs; the wild sea on the West Coast; the smell of wet pine trees; Edinburgh; fresh scallops; quiches in a pie case; the Modern Art Gallery in Edinburgh....

Bloody Hell, Tutti Frutti.
How was that never repeated? Probably the best series on BBC Scotland ever.
Please convince me that if I buy the dvd to watch with my 16 year old son, it'll be as good as I remember it to be.

This thread is great, I am so proud of being scottish! We have the seafest tomorrow in arbroath, lots of fishy things going on I love the smokie bbqs, also my fav chippy is the round O in arbroath! Was on minature railway last year.

Am away to go and download deacon blue our town, love your swaying arms!