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

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Francis Cadell
Jack Vettriano
Avril Paton
Celtic art
The red (and this year, purple) sheep by the M8
The Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh
Stockbridge
Morningside

pickin up the field mice and bopping them on the head !

The imaginative Glasgow humour that still leaves me, an Edinburgh lassie, awe-struck after 14 years of living in the West.

Recently, a colleague described a poor wee boss-eyed soul as having "Wan eye goin' tae the coarner shop, an' the ither wan walkin' back doon the street wi' the change."

LineRunner - tablet is sold at most garages, the Coop or sweetie shops. The best tablet in the world is found at church bring and buy sales or WRI stalls.
It becomes lethal if you eat more than half a slab.

OOHH! OOHH! OOHH! Upahill. someone else who likes Fish. I've never met another one. I've had the most enormous crush on him since I saw Marillion at the Ayr Pav when I was 15 (very sad, old person.)

Best things about Scotland:

socially responsible government
scenery
water
excellent things to say to your kids (Justin Beiber/Demi Lovato would gie your erse a sair heid causes much indignation in here )
hat cakes (tunnock's tea cakes)
Scotland wide free travel for elderly and disabled
free dental checks
free prescriptions
fee-free higher ed
Highland and Island accents
Kilts and men in them

Free Prescriptions and Higher Education
The weather (if you don't like it hang about for an hour or so and it'll be different)
Kinlochbervie beach
Chippie broon sauce on a haggis supper
Dunfermline Glen, thank you Mr Carnegie
The kindness of strangers
No tories (or very silent ones)
The view from my windows, all green and lush trees and foliage
Cheaper housing than down south
GP who knows you and your children since birth
10 minutes drive and you are in the country, rural Perthshire is gorgeous, ditto highlands
T in the Park
Can drive to work in 9 mins despite working 12 miles away.
Fab, tolerant, friendly populace.
The Tattoo and the Fireworks in Edinburgh.
Shopping in Glesgay
No bridge tolls

TantePiste - you may the thinking of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers..

Mackintosh Designs.

Oh yes Boris the singing kettle, I can't wait until DD is old enough to go and see them I think I will be more excited than her. One of my colleagues neighbours is friends with Cilla and Artie and her DD and DS used to sit at the window for hours staring at the neighbours house when they were visiting .

I also love how in general, outside of some areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland is not overcrowded and its easy to get places by car. We took the car to London last year, it was hell on earth, no amount of money in the world could persuade me to live in London.

Ahem, my pretties:

The fact that Mr B Pitt is soon to be spotted shooting World War Z in George Sq.

You heard it here first.

Well, you probably didn't, but anyway.

I love living in Scotland, the best things are, for me:

The craic
Lorne sausage
The beaches (live 5 mins one)
The scenery
The accents
Hearing people speak Gaelic (I live in the Highlands)
Gaelic place names and how some of them bear no relation to how they are pronounced, confuses my English rellies no end, lol!
Education system (I went to Scottish and English schools)
Words like blether, bairns, numpty.
Phrases like nae bother, aye right, I dinnae ken! Braw and isnay.
Tattie scones
I don't like Irn Bru though! :)

Midnightexpress

There is indeed a viking ship burning in Edinburgh, it's part of the New Year celebrations

Torchlight Procession

And what a magnificent sight it is too!

I forgot, men in kilts, Chilli Pipers and the word eejit!

Does anyone remember a gaelic childrens programme called "Dotaman"? Late 80's/early 90's! A man with a guitar. Had a beard and was very smily! :)

Scottish goal keepers. Always worth a laugh. (Craig Gordon is letting the side down a bit.)

Pretty money.
Scottish accent.
Men in kilts.

I remember Dotaman.My nursery teacher,who was from one of the Islands,always made us watch it to try to teach us some Gaelic,though we weren't from an area that traditionally speaks Gaelic,Glasgow. Not that I'm saying it's a bad thing to learn it.

I rather enjoyed it even though I didn't understand the majority of what he was saying. I can hear the theme tune now.

Run Rigs Loch Lomond, a great way to finish off a party/wedding

Pan doesn't this say it all about Scottish football?

Watching clips of it now though is rather disturbing.He looks more like one of the hillbillies from Deliverance,than a kindly children's tv presenter.

I wonder what Gaelic for 'squeal like a pig,boy' is?

Euphemia - that piccie is a drastic misrepresentation.

It's nothing as cheery as that.

Oh thank you MrsPresley - glad you're keeping tantepiste's dream alive

At risk of outing myself, although this is just my moving house username - I can see the Arran sleeping warrior from my living room & bedroom windows. Losing it is the worst thing about moving - luckily a short walk and I'll be able to see it again, phew.

The Caledonian Sleeper, like it in either direction but particularly going back home
Oatcakes & cheese and whisky.
Knowing all the proper words to Auld Lang Syne, and how to celilidh
Haud yer Wheesht and other expressive Scots phrases
MacSweens haggis, original and veggie
Soor Plooms
DC Thomson
The Forth bridges, definitely. I am also very fond of the squinty bridge in Glasgow.
Andy Murray
yes to irn bru, tattie scones, lorne sausage, proper salt&sauce, seafood, ayrshire tatties, strawberries, rasps, blaeberries, tayberries and brambles, clyde valley tomatoes, arran cheese
Pitlochry Festival Theatre and salmon ladder
Strathdon Blue cheese deserves a special mention
Deacon Blue
Yes, yes, yes to Runrig, partic Loch Lomond. Stirring.
Excitement when tartan comes back into fashion every 3 years or so.
Education
Edinburgh Festival, although I haven't been in years
The way people instantly love you when you travel to Europe or the USA
Men in kilts. MY man in a kilt.
ALL the cities, love them all for different reasons.
Aberdonian accent.
Hogmanay, even although I usually just watch it on telly.

Butteries (North East Scotland breakkie treat!)
Men in kilts with Timberland boots
Loch Lee

Mmmmm...Ewan in a kilt . Even named my first born after him. I Love Scotland!