KTL yak/yack Princess Street Edinburgh Saturday Night

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I agreed to give one of my loosely constructed rambling yacks/yaks in return for free winter accommodation for Katie L

The marginally deluded members of the Forth Corinthian Yacht Club (what a fine name) have booked a room in Princess Street that will accommodate 100 - but are currently expecting around a third of that number.

The bar opens at 7.00 - I will yak/yack for 45 minutes and there will be a refreshment break and we will have another 45 minutes.

I will show some films - but not many - I never know because these things tend to be fairly interactive and all the films are available on the web anyway

The southcoasters at the RAF Yacht Club on the Hamble last year headed off in some very weird directions but laughed generously

the FCYC have made a lovely pdf for you to download

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/keep-turning-left.pdf

and I have had a haircut for the occasion.

Please come

you can contact Libby here

forthcorinthians@gmail.com

D

it is £5 a pop - the money will go to FCYC coffers but I fear they are heading for a loss on this one

and here is a rambling Yak/Yack


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dylanwinter said:
The southcoasters at the RAF Yacht Club on the Hamble last year headed off in some very weird directions but laughed generously
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That was before you posted film and comment that wasn't entirely complimentary about the Solent in general and the Hamble and its Mobo drivers in particular. :)

If your ramblings are as entertaining as your films the FCYC will get value well in excess of any shortfall between outgoings and incomings on this particular evening (unless, like my IPad you keep crashing and have to be rebooted - or is that what the interval is for?). If I were you I'd avoid voicing opinions about Christianity (a la Lincoln Cathedral voice over) just in case the Wee Frees are in.

Mark
 
Tomaret said:
That was before you posted film and comment that wasn't entirely complimentary about the Solent in general and the Hamble and its Mobo drivers in particular. :)
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He was gently derogatory about mobo owners, then somewhat apologetic to the ones who were sat in the front row :D

Pete
 
dylanwinter said:
I agreed to give one of my loosely constructed rambling yacks/yaks in return for free winter accommodation for Katie L

The marginally deluded members of the Forth Corinthian Yacht Club (what a fine name) have booked a room in Princess Street that will accommodate 100 - but are currently expecting around a third of that number.

The bar opens at 7.00 - I will yak/yack for 45 minutes and there will be a refreshment break and we will have another 45 minutes.

I will show some films - but not many - I never know because these things tend to be fairly interactive and all the films are available on the web anyway

The southcoasters at the RAF Yacht Club on the Hamble last year headed off in some very weird directions but laughed generously

the FCYC have made a lovely pdf for you to download

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/keep-turning-left.pdf

and I have had a haircut for the occasion.

Please come

you can contact Libby here

forthcorinthians@gmail.com

D

it is £5 a pop - the money will go to FCYC coffers but I fear they are heading for a loss on this one

and here is a rambling Yak/Yack


960854-tibet-une-femelle-yack-en-offrande.jpg
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Looking forward to it already
 
Shame I won't be back in time. Forth Corintithians are a very good club, visited them many times and spent a very good evening there being told how to make malt whisky.
 
Sadly, I shall be the worse fer drink, having guided the National Team to the handing out of a sound drubbing of O'Connel's fine men.
Will you be doing a repeat over on God's coast?
 
A bit of a late report on Dylan's aptly named yak yak.

Its been a bit of a busy one in the Athens of the North, yet more humiliation on the rugby field to live down, the sight of the sun which has had us all busy on the boat work and even some paid work to do.

Dylan was in good form: he certainly kept us all entertained.

Opinionated some might say; mobos bad, deep keels a handicap, shallow water good, Centaurs best: certainly amusing, and certainly a person who can speak with knowledge based on extensive experience.

The evening of talk was interspersed with some of his films: interesting to see the first one again when the middle aged man sets of on his two year adventure. The films he showed left me looking forward to see what he makes of the West Coast and the far North. Films of God's own country, should be good.

He showed a few clips of life on the Mirror Offfshore in the ice and snow, scrapping the frost off the inside of the windows, listening to the ice bumping down the outside of the boat and all in a boat being heated by a few tea lights. A small scale epic that he manages to turn into an amusing adventure

It was a good evening, well balanced and I could have listened/watched more.


So, if you get a chance.............
 
Fascadale said:
A bit of a late report on Dylan's aptly named yak yak.

Its been a bit of a busy one in the Athens of the North, yet more humiliation on the rugby field to live down, the sight of the sun which has had us all busy on the boat work and even some paid work to do.

Dylan was in good form: he certainly kept us all entertained.

Opinionated some might say; mobos bad, deep keels a handicap, shallow water good, Centaurs best: certainly amusing, and certainly a person who can speak with knowledge based on extensive experience.

The evening of talk was interspersed with some of his films: interesting to see the first one again when the middle aged man sets of on his two year adventure. The films he showed left me looking forward to see what he makes of the West Coast and the far North. Films of God's own country, should be good.

He showed a few clips of life on the Mirror Offfshore in the ice and snow, scrapping the frost off the inside of the windows, listening to the ice bumping down the outside of the boat and all in a boat being heated by a few tea lights. A small scale epic that he manages to turn into an amusing adventure

It was a good evening, well balanced and I could have listened/watched more.


So, if you get a chance.............
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well thanks for that

I think

it is odd,I do not think of myself as being opinionated

It has also been suggested that I drop the short section of the talk on the clearances and how the whole thing was inflicted on them by their own home grown scottish toffs - they seem to prefer their own simplistic legends about dastardly english landlords.
 
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J Neeves said:
Why spoil a good story with the truth - I'm guessing Prebble is out of print and certainly sounds to be unfashionable
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he is here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Highland-Clearances-John-Prebble/dp/0140028374

just ordered it

"In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.

'Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today' The Times."

I fear that I need to look inside myself before making Scotsmen aware of the terrible truth behind their greatest myth.

I wonder if Alex knows much of these matters
 
apologies for thread drift but my thought for the day ....for some balance might I suggest this play

The Cheviot, the stag, and the black, black oil by John McGrath

Did it for higher English many years ago

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story indeed
 
That's a fantastic play and the text has recently been republished in paperback

Dylan, you might also like to read The poor had no lawyers (Andy Wightman 2011), and/or The last of the free (Jim Hunter 2000). Both very well researched compelling reads on the subject of land in Scotland, pre and post clearances. Both authors very respelted in this field (and currently advising Westminster Scottish select committee on land reform).
 
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