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Post by Beth on Jul 1, 2009 20:44:52 GMT 1
jist ordered it. No well heeled, oor library disnae even know how tae spell it ;d
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Post by Beth on Jun 22, 2009 20:32:24 GMT 1
PAtrick, when you spoke of the Tartan Arrow, was it a pub? . Worked for a transport firm called Tartan Arrow in 1967
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Post by Beth on Jun 2, 2009 20:13:42 GMT 1
Long Walk to Freedom, a good book about a great man, This is a pic of cave in the limestone quarry where they worked. It was in this cave apparently that the political prisoners educated themselves. The heat and glare are unbelievable. Should rather have said, the educated, educated the uneducated
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Post by Beth on May 16, 2009 17:32:39 GMT 1
ma da probably knew your da then ;d 1950's early 60's
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Post by Beth on May 13, 2009 8:44:18 GMT 1
Wilbur Smith. Have read all his books except the last Assegai. I found his earlier books much better, but mab=ybe I am biased as they were about early pioneering days in Africa. Where the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder, all the Courtney books. Found them more enjoyable. He also wrote a book called Cape of Starms about the Whaling ships and love across the Colour Bar in the old apartheid days. Love Ian Rankin and Rebus also. Read Exit music early last year and cannot believe it will be the last Rebus Book. Have most of his books, or should I say had. I am furious with Allan. he gave a "Friend" the load of more than ten of them, including exit music that I paid nearly R300 for. Still waiting to get them back!!! Have you read any of John Gordon Davis Books? He wrote amongst others Hold My Hand I am Dying. Also Apartheid Africa Fiction. He also wrote Leviathan about the whalers. LKate for work again, N=Bye
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Post by Beth on Apr 24, 2009 17:28:19 GMT 1
think it could only be two people Patrick
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Post by Beth on Apr 20, 2009 20:55:33 GMT 1
I forgot what the prefabs looked like.W used to visit my Uncle Pat and Auntie Margaret in a prefab, Cannae remember where. Used to get the tram from Shettleston. Would Dalmarnock road, be nearly right?
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Post by Beth on Apr 10, 2009 13:32:48 GMT 1
I must have slept through the 60s
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Post by Beth on Apr 5, 2009 15:50:13 GMT 1
remember the wee sweetie shop next door
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Post by Beth on Apr 5, 2009 15:48:27 GMT 1
Meant in the then Rhodesia
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Post by Beth on Apr 4, 2009 8:51:18 GMT 1
That hill could tell many a story
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Post by Beth on Mar 9, 2009 8:27:06 GMT 1
think it was and with Rose re Shettleston, but it's great to talk about it again. For all my daddy's wee games, it was a happy time in my childhood
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Post by Beth on Mar 8, 2009 13:28:39 GMT 1
they were friends of my mum's. Recognise the names
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Post by Beth on Mar 8, 2009 9:15:42 GMT 1
My dad worked there for a wee while He also drank there, as he did in most pubs in Shettleston
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Post by Beth on Mar 8, 2009 8:08:38 GMT 1
I went to the odeon club and the state, my mum worked in teh odeon for a while. remember the wee sweetie shop next to it. Remember the queues to get in too
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Post by Beth on Feb 22, 2009 8:43:26 GMT 1
Patrick was sad to read about the derelict part of Dalbeth. We used to go in from the London Road gate to the family grave. My Uncle Pat lived right opposite the London Road Gates. The Loftus Family
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Post by Beth on Feb 15, 2009 19:21:36 GMT 1
ah'll git loast
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Post by Beth on Jan 24, 2009 11:47:14 GMT 1
I went to Cooks in Duke St great shop, but one of my most embarrassing moments was in that shop. In 1975 when we were home on holiday from the then Rhodesia,and I was still quite young and naive, Allan sent me out hunting for a book for a friend. It was The Happy Hooker. Went to all the posh bookshops up town and nobody could help me, did get a few queer looks though. Finally in desperation I tried Cooks in Duke Street. The guy went in the back and came out with the book in a brown bag. I NEARLY DIED. I did not know a hooker is a prostitute. That is the gospel truth. We had a real rammy that night, what an idiot I felt.Cencorship was heavy in those days, Playboy was even banned, so that book was in great demend
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Post by Beth on Dec 14, 2008 20:00:52 GMT 1
Is that the wee pub just down from Woolworth's at Parkhead Cross?
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Post by Beth on Nov 10, 2008 21:47:04 GMT 1
My Mum worked in the Clyde Bar, must have been about 1966
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Post by Beth on Nov 10, 2008 7:52:00 GMT 1
No more dogs for us. When one goes the other will just come to work with me. To be honest it is the dogs stopping us from moving to Aus. 6 months quarantine and I had a look at the website for the kennels. NEVER. Charlie, did you plant a wee tree of remembrance? We have one and when we did the renovations last year we got horror e-mails from the grandsons in Aus, warning us not to disturb Rosie's tree. The boys are now 17 and 14 and they still remember. MAx will live forever in your hearts, although there is a big empty hole right now, you memories will always be there. Them, and the foties, cos if you are anything like me, there will be hundreds of him
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Post by Beth on Nov 9, 2008 8:41:14 GMT 1
Charlie, There really are no words that can comfort you both right now. Just the thought that friends care and are thinking of you. I will be inconsolable when the time comes for me to part with either of my "girls"
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Post by Beth on Oct 29, 2008 8:00:11 GMT 1
Diwali has been celebrated here for teh past two days as here in Durban we have a very large Indian Community. They were brought here as indentured workers for the sugar plantations many years ago. The upside of Diwali is that our friends bring us delicious eats as it is a time of sharing, but the downside, is the horrible bangs from the fireworks used in the celebration of The Festival Of Lights by many Hindu Families. (Like Guy Fawkes and New Year, a torrid time for animals. We sedate our big dog during the loudest times)
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Post by Beth on Oct 3, 2008 23:17:18 GMT 1
We just called it Dalbeth. My grandparents are buried there as well as other family members. Every Sunday we had to go and fix up the grave. I hated it
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Post by Beth on Sept 28, 2008 10:15:37 GMT 1
He was my dentist too. My hair was long and he used to tie it roud the head of the chair so I could not move. Remember he wore a ben casey shirt and loads of times it had blood on it. Can still remember the smell
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Post by Beth on Sept 28, 2008 10:07:23 GMT 1
We lived just behind the hospital and Allan's Mum worked there for years
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