CS2 Posts

[AnnetteR]

Hi Bob

What a great story. I didn't realise so much went in to making paper and now that I've read your story I will treat it with more respect. As for the disaster of 1968 I was living in Glesca but emerged unscathed as did the rest of my family and friends. Being the big feartie that I am I didn't leave the house that day. What I can remember was that ma faither extinguished the coal fire incase we got a 'blaw doon' the chimney and set the tenement on fire. We were bliddy freezin but at least we were safe.

Thanks for sharing that wi us

Annette

[Moonwatcher]

Funnily enough Annette, I didn't light the coal fire during last week's storm. I vaguely remembered something about 'blowback' or something. I suspected I was perhaps over reacting but didn't want to take the chance. Interesting how some things get passed down without you even realising it.

Bob.

[DavidWW]

I wasn't in Glasgow that Sunday night but at home in Ayr.

I can still remember clearly lying in bed hearing a noise that was later established to be the waves on Ayr shore, some 3 miles from the house.

I was a weekly commuter to university in Glasgow, normally catching a 7:30 train on the Monday morning .......

This Monday the first train left Ayr around 9:30, got as far as Lochwinnoch and turned back - on the way having to bypass Troon station as most of the station building was on the railway line! On getting back to Ayr there was an announcement that another train was going to attempt to reach Glasgow, using an alternative route (this was pre-Beeching when a lot more lines were still in use!!) so nothing ventured, nothing gained, many students such as me decided to go for it, - most daily commuters just gave up ........

We finally reached Glasgow St Enoch station (like Buchanan Street it no longer exists) at about 2 pm .........

Travelling back to the digs in Hyndland later that afternoon revealed a cityscape littered with debris from buildings. In Novar Drive where my digs were several chimneys had broken loose and come down onto the street or, worse, straight down into the stairwell, and down on through several floors. And I don't mean pots, but substantial brick structures. There were some injuries in Novar Drive but, thankfully, no fatalities.

It was several years before the last tarpaulin disappeared from damaged Glasgow roofs !!

Coverage in the English dominated media?, - mimimal ! They still think that "their" South Coast "hurricane" of a few years ago was the worst bad weather event in the last 100 years <sad g>....... a bit like the editorial comment in the London evening newspaper a few years ago, following the deaths of 26 old age pensioners in a N Lanarkshire nursing home from an E Coli 157 derived illness from infected meat, - you may not believe this but it's true, - "What's the problem?, just a few Jocks with the runs" !!! .......

Davie

[DavidWW]

Whit a week! Maist eh iz here in Scoatlin, lik me, hiv bin boathirt wae the wind........ much snipped...............

Boab

Hiv ye bin overdain the baked beans again, but !

Davie

[DavidWW]

Haw Boab!

If you have all your fingers in pristine condition then I refuse to believe that you worked with a decent size and speed of paper m/c for any length of time !!

For those not familiar with these m/c's Bob describes them, and the risks very well.

Modern m/c's transport the paper at a speed of several hundred feet/min, and are several hundred feet long; and it is still very common among m/c operators to find that they are missing at very least least bits of their fingers .............................

Davie

[Moonwatcher]

Middle finger right hand. I'm going to own up here and tell ye the truth...

I didn't lose the tip in the calendar rolls - too bliddy careful (an feart) furr that. It happened when I was pulling a heavy trolley/truck of wet 'broke' through the big rubber doors I mentioned. I was going backwards and suddenly became aware of another wheeled truck behind me. I stepped aside but the momentum of the heavy trolley I was pulling smashed my finger between the two trolleys. Whit a mess it wiz! It wiz thanks tae the folk at the Western Infirmary thit ah still hive 10 fingers, albeit wan a bit shoarter thin the ithers. Ah lasted nine months at Kelvindale - it wiz an experience ah'll never furget ah kin tell ye. The place is a hoosin estate noo.

Bob.

[A Spirit]

Cyber Seance. 16 Jan 2005

Hullawrerr Cyber Seancers

Is thir anybiddy ther? Knoak wance furr yes an twice furr naw!

"Knock"

Yes, my son, what is it that you would desire to know about the other side?

An Ethereal Being on the Other Side.....................

[Moonwatcher]

Dae thae hiv fish suppers?

[A Spirit]

Dae thae hiv fish suppers?

My Son

We partake of Dover sole with pomme suedois, every day, should we wish.

An Ethereal Being on the Other Side.....................

[Moonwatcher]

Iz ther anybiddy else ther?
Hiv ye goat somebiddy ower ther thit speaks english?