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AS: Sturgeon and Chips: the Scottish thread 2020

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  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Looking forward to raising a toast to Stercus Tauri at 6pm.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Absolutely! :)
  • Will be joining in.
  • See you then! I have a pint of Millrace Dark from Grand River Brewing ready to go. Were I in Scotland, it might have been Dark Island, the heavenly Orkney brew.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    [Quick look through my beer collection, combination of gifts at Christmas and bought for Christmas ... nope, the Dark Island I bought must have been drunk]

    Now, should I open one of those bottles of beer or pour a wee dram?
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    Joining in from south of the border. No beer in stock, though I'm happy to be educated in what's the best of Scottish beer, will a glass of damson gin do? I'm afraid I don't like whisky.
  • A dram is surely fine, Alan, but you must tell us what it was.

    Slàinte mhath, everyone!
  • Sláinte To @Stercus Tauri and all. Raising my re-filled bottle of water to your very good health one and all
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    edited April 2020
    It's just a Glenlivet. Slainte!
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    Slainte! This damson gin is very nice btw, damsons from my mother in law's garden.
    Sorry you are not in your favourite pub @Stercus Tauri , hope you can re-arrange for another time. A visit to Scotland for a ship meet sounds like a very good idea.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm ashamed to say that I'm not really a whisky drinker, so I'm joining you via a glass of Craft3 New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, which is sharp, fruity and very very nice.

    Stercus, we'll get a chance to have an actual Edinburgh meet one day - slainte mhor! :)
  • Slainte!

    *hic*

    A glass of Czech beer here, in the absence of WHISKY (I knew there was something I forgot to buy earlier in the week...).
    :grimace:
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Slainte! Lavender Mead here, drunk from one of my grandmother's Edinburgh Crystal glasses.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    You forgot to buy WHISKY??? BF, dear, you're slipping!

    I was quite impressed on my amble yesterday that one of the neighbours' uncollected glass box* contained an empty bottle of 12yo Highland Park.

    I obviously live in a very civilised neighbourhood. :smiley:

    * Edinburgh City Council have suspended kerbside glass collections because of The Situation. :flushed:
  • We should do this more often. Since I'm five hours behind you, I think I may do it again at our 6:00 pm... It was the mention of the Highland Park that did it.

    Meanwhile, a hike up in the woods on a crisp sunny afternoon is in order. I need to get away from the computer, as we are having a rather stiff e-mail discussion about the correct interpretation of The Book of Forms, Appendix C, para F anent loans made to the congregation by the presbytery.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Crikey - any sentence with the word "anent" in it should be enough to send me running for the hills (or the GIN bottle)!*

    It's nice to see some of you would be drinking Dark Island if you could; I'm not a great beer fan, but anything that helps the Orcadian economy is fine by me!

    * I once worked for a firm of Scottish solicitors. :mrgreen:
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Be grateful you still get to use the word "anent." The General Assembly here has stopped using it, and I , for one, am grieved by this.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It is rather a good word, isn't it? It's one David used to use when he was feeling proud of my Scottishness. :heart:
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    I'm concerned I don't know what anent is all about.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I thought about explaining it, and then decided you were winding me up ... :mrgreen:
  • Be grateful you still get to use the word "anent." The General Assembly here has stopped using it, and I , for one, am grieved by this.
    We (PC(USA) and predecessors bodies) seem to have stopped using it long, long ago.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Hello Nick - welcome to the virtual bar - cheers!

    <raises glass>
  • Thank you kindly. I raise my water, pretending it’s bourbon, to you all. :wink: Due to waiting for some after-affects of surgery to clear up, I’m afraid I’m still off alcohol. :scream:

    Speaking of that, my wife and I were planning a family (us and our two college-aged kids) trip to Scotland in May. Before we could finalize plans or actually pay any money, heart surgery happened, and we decided it best to hold off, not knowing how I’d feel come May. I’m very glad now that we did hold off, because obviously a trip in May wouldn’t be possible.

    Cheers to all!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Maybe next May, if you're fully mended? :)
  • Piglet wrote: »
    You forgot to buy WHISKY??? BF, dear, you're slipping!

    I forgot to buy WHISKY because I was overcome with excitement at being able to buy a jar of SALMON FISH PASTE!
    :grin:

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    You're definitely slipping ... :mrgreen:
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Maybe next May, if you're fully mended? :)
    Perhaps so. And I hope I’m fully mended long, long before next May. :smiley:

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Yea and amen to that! :)
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    With apologies to my Scottish friends, I picked up Irish whiskey yesterday, Tullamore Dew.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    I know we're supposed to forgive ... but, some sins are close to being unforgivable ;)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bushmills single malt (the one with the green label) is just about acceptable; I remember my late father (who was partial to a good whisky) waxing wroth about the inferiority of Irish whiskey until he tasted Bushmills! :mrgreen:
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Mr F has just procured a bottle of Gelston named for a part of Belfast where he grew up.

    Before that, the favoured whiskey was Slane (or the Belshazzar's Feast as we call it).

    There's more to Irish whiskey than
    Bushmills.
  • Caissa wrote: »
    With apologies to my Scottish friends, I picked up Irish whiskey yesterday, Tullamore Dew.

    For penance, we condemn you to drink it!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Firenze wrote: »
    ... There's more to Irish whiskey than Bushmills.
    I should imagine there is! I hadn't heard of Gelston before though - I wonder if my old haunt in Fredericton had it among their several hundred?
  • There's always Peroxide Blonde... AKA Black Bush.
  • :lol:

    I saw what you did there...
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    That was almost as naughty as spending the weekend in your second home.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Is Balmoral Charles' second home? Or is it his third or fourth home?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited April 2020
    I thought Prinny was living in Birkhall? Not far from Balmoral, but not the same AIUI.

    He inherited it from his Grandma.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    On the Balmoral estate AIUU.
  • Ah - I see.
    Thx.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Re. Irish Whiskey. My mother's birth name was McCollom. Does that get me redeemed?
  • Hmm. McCollom seems to be a Scottish west coast/Hebridean name.

    So, no.
  • I don't understand how can you forget to buy whisky, surely everyone has more than one bottle in so you can't run out?
  • My wife has some excellent Welsh whisky in the cupboard: https://tinyurl.com/w5cxwtg
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    My wife has some excellent Welsh whisky in the cupboard: https://tinyurl.com/w5cxwtg

    What's it doing in the cupboard? It should be out earning its keep in a couple of glasses.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Maybe it's practising safe distancing ... :mrgreen:
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Every time there is a redd-oot of a cupboard at church, some of the stuff ends up in my study.

    Lockdown seems a good time to do a bit of sorting and indexing. Today I'm reading my way through the minutes of the Women's Guild in 1933, presided over by the truly terrifying figure of the minister's wife and her cowed committee.

    The hot topic of the day was: which would be of most benefit to the church - umbrella stands or a lavatory?

    At the January meeting, a Rev Mr Martin delivered a lecture on "A Winter in Beautiful Budapest" with musical interludes by Mrs Martin.

    Mr Martin's lecture was specially in connection with the work of the Church of Scotland mission to the Jews in Budapest....The Jews were particularly clever and cultured in their tastes and we must not think of all Jews as being wealthy, many were very poor... He then went on to speak of the City of Bucharest...He also spoke of the Scots School for Girls and of the good it was doing in the community.
    Speaking of their journey out to Budapest he said the Rhine was more wonderful even than the descriptions of it, but the Danube, however, is very seldom blue.


    I wonder when the Martins delightful trip to Budapest was? Had they just returned before giving their talk? Had they met the matron of the Girls' School, Miss Jane Haining?

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited April 2020
    :lol:

    Yes, old Minutes (or whatever) make for fascinating reading, and are a window into a long-vanished world.

    Does the C of S still have a mission to Jews, or anyone else, in Budapest? I guess the various political upheavals of the 20thC probably had a deleterious effect IYSWIM.

    (Our Place has a few similar PCC Minute Books from the 1930s, all quite nicely handwritten (not copperplate, but legible). One of these days, I'll have another look at them, when I get fed up with watching the grass grow.
    :wink:)

  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    The entire Girls' School were shipped to Auschwitz, Bishop's Finger. Jane Haining died there in July 1944.

    Haining is remembered at Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Amongst Nations. Her life has been much publicised here - I assumed that most Scottish shipmates would understand the poignancy of the Martins' talk about their delightful trip to Budapest and the Girls' School there.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-49851269
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