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One has to exercise discretion. And this really was not appropriate for the Recipes board.

Nae neeps? Nae tatties?

Well, sorry, for me it was aye neeps and tatties. Ah min' once in the Refectory, some toonser ca'in me an ma pals teuchters. Agressive, like.
He was lookin' for a fecht. He was wastin' his time.

I jist mind sayin', aye, I'm a teuchter. And prood o't.

Fan I woke up the next day, I couldna tell ye if it wis a hangover or a skelp roon' the lug, Bit I think we won.

We crawled oot o' the RL, helped each ither across the road, and the mannie in the chippie kent fit we wir wantin.

It wis aye the same. One white pudden (me), twa reid and twa black. There were aye five o' us.

Fitivver, if there's onybody here wis enjoying themselves in Auld Aiberdeen the same time as me, they'll be able tae answer this question.

Fa owned, and sung and played in, the Bobbin Mill on King Street (as it wis then)?

Clue - his first name wis Ken, and probably still is.

Mair clues?

Bunion*.

Davie Hepburn, greatest bass player ever graced the planet.

Fitivver, if ye were drunk enough, ye'd get a bus tae Holburn Street, and catch MacFolk at the Malt Mill.

*Bunion were Mike Keavey and Eddie Ross. Eddie was sh*t hot on the bagpipes. Mike is advertised in some pub in Wick this weekend. Ah thocht he wis deid. Maybe I should check oot and report back.

Mike

Nae idea, Mike.


Onywye, us teuchters are dein' fine. Dinna fash.

I've nae idea either. Fin I wis gaun tae Aiberdeen Uni, the only entertainment(?) on a Setterday nicht wis the hop in the Mitchell. I canna min' foo aften I missed the bus oot tae Inverurie. The damn thing left Schoolhill at 11 oclock and I wis aye late! I min' a snawy nicht fin a pair o's started tae walk. Oh aye, we wis ambitious them days!

At least ye had the sense to go as a pair. How far did ye get? I remember how it felt to be twenty and immortal....

I think we got to Bucksburn, and a local farmer saw us trudging and stopped to pick us up! Mind you, you wouldn't do that today. After that little episode and a good bawling out from my mother I made sure either my date had a car or I left the hop in good time for the bus. I dinna think we wid ha made it up Tirebagger!!

The only band I recall from Aberdeen was Freddie Fingers and why they were call that I can't say because either the guitars weren't brill or I was too far gone to notice!

Have you any connection with the north east or Aberdeen, Ellsie? Or was it just that an Aberdeen band were playing in your part of the world. Can't say I've ever heard of Freddie Fingers, must've been before or after my time.

I mis-spent 4 years there,three at RGIT from 1978, and I made lots of friends there and have lots of memories,some hazier than others! What about you. I love this Aberdeenspik but as a Glaswegian, ah kin unnerstaun it be'er thin ah kin spik it.!

Great, Ellsie! I've just finished an MSc at RGU, as it is these days. I did it by distance learning so I haven't yet been to the place (ie the uni, of course I've been to Aberdeen).

I went the other way from you. Started off in Teuchterland and headed south. I was at Heriot Watt from 1979 -82 so I'm probably about the same vintage as you.

Well done on finishing your MSc. I am amazed that it is now a uni! I hope that means an improvement to the student union building too!
We have moved around lots and are waiting now to hear if Canada has a little space for us,just a corner would be fine!
I guess we must be about the same vintage ,right enough! Is Thailand a permanent stop for you? We have some cousins there building houses but I don't know which area they are in.
How's the house sale?