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by Cwenegogo
Fri Sep 10, 2021 3:06 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: I've noticed
Replies: 17
Views: 13475

Re: I've noticed

or Claysie derived from the Gaelic for fat short grumpy hobbling hippie
by Cwenegogo
Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness
Replies: 5
Views: 5033

Re: Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness

Just saying what a great event this was. Managed to do the 66 miles in 3 hours 19 mins so well pleased with that. The A9 and A74 are nightmares at the moment. On the way up I lost 45 mins on the A74 around Glasgow and the A9 was ia real drag! People seem incapable of overtaking slow vehicles, sit be...
by Cwenegogo
Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:46 am
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness
Replies: 5
Views: 5033

Re: Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness

Cheers Nick, I'll check that out
by Cwenegogo
Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:29 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness
Replies: 5
Views: 5033

Sleeping in Car overnight near Inverness

I booked up to do the Loch Ness Sportive a couple of years ago as part of a family holiday where I was going to sail to Inverness and sail back via the ancestral home land of the IoM , the pandemic happened so the sail did'nt happen but I've still got the booking and its on this sunday. I've got to ...
by Cwenegogo
Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:22 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: The Hip
Replies: 25
Views: 32507

Re: The Hip

by Cwenegogo
Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:35 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Bags of spanners
Replies: 19
Views: 17494

Bags of spanners

I wonder the origin of this term, spanners tend to come in nicely wrapped wallets these days.
by Cwenegogo
Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:35 pm
Forum: Gear and Gadgets
Topic: Claymore's Bits and Pieces
Replies: 21
Views: 39190

Re: Claymore's Bits and Pieces

Och, it must hae minded him o' a washin' machine;-) Maybe he sterted aff at 5'5" and the stretchin tae see thru it elongated him?
by Cwenegogo
Wed Jan 09, 2019 5:43 pm
Forum: Gear and Gadgets
Topic: Claymore's Bits and Pieces
Replies: 21
Views: 39190

Re: Claymore's Bits and Pieces

Devastated at the loss of the centrifugal window, the mark of a proper boat!
by Cwenegogo
Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:34 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Claymore has grown a pair ... and a bit
Replies: 12
Views: 12159

Re: Claymore has grown a pair ... and a bit

It is in Holland, on the Markermeer. This was our trip to the Isle of Man via Inverness where many of my ancestors camme from ;-) After 18 hours of bashing into a F6 Northerly we gave up and headed east to IJmuiden and had a glorious few weeks on the Markermeer and IJsselmeer. Here's some other phot...
by Cwenegogo
Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:42 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: Claymore has grown a pair ... and a bit
Replies: 12
Views: 12159

Re: Claymore has grown a pair ... and a bit

Virtual pint if you guess the stretch of water;-)
by Cwenegogo
Sun May 13, 2018 4:21 pm
Forum: Shooting the breeze
Topic: I've never known it
Replies: 2
Views: 4491

Re: I've never known it

SShhhhhhhhhhhh ... ye'll wake him up! Micht pop up and see you this year!