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claymore

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Been away sailing for the weekend. The winds were northerly and very cold to the point where I was wearing my liberty bodice and Dear Heart had the number one thermal passion killers on. Think this global warming stuff must be a load of cobblers
 
I agree, down here in the southern north sea? it's effin freezin' wish I was in Barcelona!!!
Are you sure er' in'doors, didnt order this weather, so she could put her pashion killers on? Ya randy Scot!!
 
Not aging anymore, stopped all that stuff!! Discovered supercharged viagra!!! Tee Hee! Fine my old buddy, working as usual, but back to my roots so to speak, offshore Great Yarmouth!! First job I ever had in the oilfield was offshore here, a few years ago now! Still trying to educate folk? Is it working?
 
Sailed up L. Swilly on saturday - perfect conditions. Blue sky, 15-20 knots wind. Anchored and had lunch then read the paper, lying on the cockpit cushions.
Think that Scotland's over-rated...
 
CCC muster at Wreck Bay after the Ladies & Cadet's race this weekend. If you kept out of the wind it was absolutely gorgeous. The wind had a real bite to it though and blew through the anchorage all night.

How do you stop a chain rumbling on a rocky sea bed? Answers, please.

Donald
 
Probably as many pontoons on the west coast of scotland as there are on the emerald isle...

Bl**dy noise keeps me awake.... dragging/not dragging. Dragging/not dragging.....you get the picture?

Donald
 
Claymore, I'm afraid we in the farthest north have just had the warmest day of the year so far, (20°) and a day in the hills was rewarded by a singed pate as the sun block went AWOL. However I'm sure that by August when we pick up our boat from Dunstaffnage, the weather will be suitably mixed and liberty bodices ready for action. I'll also be looking for my antecedants in the Loch Awe region, so I'll keep an eye open for your vessel on the seaward side.

Daði.
 
Daði, hope the weather's better for you in August - pishing down in Stirling today. And good luck with hunting down your ancestral remains. Sould be easy - Kolbeinsson's not a very common name in Argyll.
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Ah, but surely Kolbeinsson's a patronymic? So Daði's kids will have the surname Daðisson, and so forth. However, I understand that there used to be a lot of wild oats sowing in the icy North, and that the name Sgeirsson is ubiquitous? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Quite like the ring to that - Sgeirsson. Wouldn't be surprised about the ubiquity, seeing as the west was largely settled by the Scandiwegians.

Ach, we're a' Jock Tamson's bairns anyway.
 
There you have it in a nut shell, James. Father's name was Colin, which some claim to be equivalent of Kolbeinn, and a name change was a prerequisite of adopting Icelandic nationality until early 1990s. My gr. grandfather and namesake was born 1844 in Kilchrenan on Loch Awe under somewhat unusual circumstances; he names his parents on his marriage certificate - unfortunately they were in their sixties when he was born. Some perusal of kirk session records is obviously called for.

My children's patronymics are Daðason and Daðadóttir.

While unsure of Sgeir´s fecundity whether imaginary or real, his username is in fact the Gaelic version of "sker", or "skerry", a rock, which is related to the English "shore".

Etymology over for today.

Daði.
 
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