OneGuyFromBarlick

Hi Andy, lovely to hear what round you do, takes me back...and Sunray I must have rumbled down past your house in my childhood..trying to operate a scooter on that hill always took you further than intended!

Eileen, you are a bit of a sharp reminder as to what I am meant to be doing when I get on this infernal machine! I have written a book and had it at a publisher, it was rejected but in a very kindly way, with a good explanation and lots of encouragement to try elsewhere..which I haven't done..chicke...

I am reminded of AC/Dc's whole lot of Rosie! Great song.

Catgate..guy weel is used in south west Scotland..there a very many similarities between old north of England dialect and the broad lowland Scots used by Burns and still used in that area today. Stanley...if only today's women's magazines had the same philosophy there would be fewer young girls star...

Oh Tripps I just pressed the thumbs up so that i could thank you that way too, and it has left your "thumbs up" thumbs down so that to anyone reading it it look like someone doesn't like your post....sorry!

Oh Tripps, that's really good news! Thanks!

Moh worry not, meaningful discussion has taken place privately and I am restored. Cal I think what you have to say is important to the future of the sight, and I know Doc is listening. I realise also that my particular make up makes it very hard for me to pick out things from cluttered backgrounds e...

The point i was making, and won't try to make again, has nothing at all to do with thinking we shouldn't pay donations, or have adverts. No one seems to understand that. What your responses have done is make it look like I am quibbling about paying a donation. That has not helped the situation.

Doc, Tizer, thank you for your kind words. For the record:I do not want my explanation of what upset me to be in lots of topics, so I refer you to "Today I shall be mainly" so that you can better understand the series of events that led me to react the way I did. As is often the case, it i...

Gentlemen you appear to have missed the point entirely. I don't think there is anyone on here who would grudge paying a pound a year to keep the site running, if I donated, and when I have in the past, it has been more than that. I also don't think anyone would have a problem with a few tasteful adv...

I feel as though I need to justify myself and that is very sad.. but for the record had I decided to pay my donations in at the rate of a pound a year I would have quite some years to go before having to endure advertising. I do not want to leave with people assuming I hasve never contributed anythi...

Tizer can I refer you to my post in reply to Nolic on "today I shall be mainly".

"Those members who make a donation to the site do not have to see the adverts. Nolic" Thanks for explaining that Nolic, and giving me a clearer idea of the kind of people I have been hob nobbing with all these years. I do remember Pluggy saying this site could be run without donations so n...

I could do with mine being flattened! Sorry to see your links to your music sites are reduced to tiny unreadable script whilst a large Ann summers advert flashes accross the screen...it's almost time for me to leave One Guy I think...it's one thing to upgrade the site..it's quite another to change i...

Happy birthday Stanley.

What attracted my attention today was the adverts all over this site..what's going on?

I am surprised to see flashing adverts on all the pages, even in the private message sector, that puts a different slant on donations.

Sue, fantastic news about your Dad..hope tommorrow goes wonderfully for all of you. Happy birthday Sues dad!

When we lived in Cumbria a friend taught me how to drive on sheet ice, it has stood me in good stead ever since, been up and down to Scotland on A1 and in and out of leeds and York quite happily in all this winter weather..great having the roads so quiet! One proviso, I don't drive before 11 or afte...

Pikelets here are like crumpets in that they have holes and a vertical structure running through them, but they are spread out like pancakes, so thinnner and "flappier". My dad always called dropped scones (that's the scottish term for them) flapjacks..but most people use the term flapjack...

Thinking of you Sue, not an easy time.

Sounds plausible Cathy, and Maz.

I remember Mummers too, and being terrified, in fact I remember them from the vantage point of behind the kitched door, peeping through a crack, they were all blacked up and dusting the hearth. So that's what's behind my housework phobia! Not lazy.........traumatised!

That was fun ( would give you a couple of exclamation marks but I don't want to upset you!!) oh no!

Been over the border for a few days so catching up with this: Sue hope the acceptance of a high energy drink means your Dad's rallied. Nolic, Get well soon. Stanley your stove glass cleaning had my eyebrows through my hair line..didn't d show you his technique? Spit on some scrunched up newspaper, d...

Not heard that one Stanley but it was lovely to hear "up dick meadows" again..that was in the cellar of my memory!! (oops sorry Doc..)
Not neccesarily dialect but one of my relatives used the word 'twerp' the other day anyone any idea where that comes from?