Christmas.

[John Laidlaw]

Actually, I'm just in the countryside near Livingston, the town that doth not speak its name.

So it’s either of.....Kirknewton, Bellsquarry, Broxburn....or....?
Just noticed my spelling /autocorrect before , meant Gorgie!!

 

[John Laidlaw]

I am in Bo'ness, so we are not that far away But yes, i prefer the west side of Edinburgh

I’m an ex Linlithgow man Pedro, know Bo’ness very well, my sister and brother in law lived there for years before moving North (Craigfoot cottage on the lower road)...
West is best (and Maroon HHGH)

 

[mercedes13156]

So it’s either of.....Kirknewton, Bellsquarry, Broxburn....or....?
Just noticed my spelling /autocorrect before , meant Gorgie!!

East Calder

 

[John Laidlaw]

East Calder

Darn! Missed that one but Kirknewton was close enough....
It’s a nice part of the Lothians...

 

[mercedes13156]

It's being ruined by the building of 1000 upmarket houses, none of which are worth anywhere near the asking prices. The Main street is awash with Q7s and Qashqias parked like they fell out of the sky. It now takes ten minutes to drive through the village at 7:30am on the way to work. You can't get near a doctor. The schools are overflowing and there's strange folk with designer scarves and green wellies roaming the street with dugs in their handbags. Apparently, the tattoo shop in the village has a waiting list. It used to be a really nice but strangely segregated little place. You had the original "Miner's Raw" on the Main Street, The "Cooncil hooses" in the middle of the village and the "Boat hooses" at the top of the hill. There are no rivers there. It's literally hooses that folk have "boat". (bought). Now the three sectors have united against the "Wa*kers fae Embra" (from Edinburgh, our dear Capital city).

Lovin' life!

 

[John Laidlaw]

It's being ruined by the building of 1000 upmarket houses, none of which are worth anywhere near the asking prices. The Main street is awash with Q7s and Qashqias parked like they fell out of the sky. It now takes ten minutes to drive through the village at 7:30am on the way to work. You can't get near a doctor. The schools are overflowing and there's strange folk with designer scarves and green wellies roaming the street with dugs in their handbags. Apparently, the tattoo shop in the village has a waiting list. It used to be a really nice but strangely segregated little place. You had the original "Miner's Raw" on the Main Street, The "Cooncil hooses" in the middle of the village and the "Boat hooses" at the top of the hill. There are no rivers there. It's literally hooses that folk have "boat". (bought). Now the three sectors have united against the "Wa*kers fae Embra" (from Edinburgh, our dear Capital city).

Lovin' life!

We had that in Lithca too- somewhat ruined the character to be honest. Haven’t been to East Calder for a long time...erm about 20 years I’m guessing- strangely last time there I nipped into a pub for a quick pint and bumped into an old school friend from Stoneyburn Davy Black (when I went to Blackburn Academy), that was strange....

 

[mercedes13156]

We had that in Lithca too- somewhat ruined the character to be honest. Haven’t been to East Calder for a long time...erm about 20 years I’m guessing- strangely last time there I nipped into a pub for a quick pint and bumped into an old school friend from Stoneyburn Davy Black (when I went to Blackburn Academy), that was strange....

Totally agree. Lithca is a different, mainstream middle class wee toon now. Astronomical house prices and not a local accent in the place. How times change. Mrs 13156 and I were car sharing a couple of years back and she spotted that the Grove Bar at the bottom of the hill in the village had a fence around it one morning and commented that it needed doing up. The next morning her comment was "Where's the Grove?" It had been demolished and removed. Four weeks later we had a Tesco Express. The start of the downhill spiral.

 

[Pedro Everett]

I’m an ex Linlithgow man Pedro, know Bo’ness very well, my sister and brother in law lived there for years before moving North (Craigfoot cottage on the lower road)...
West is best (and Maroon HHGH)

Such a small world We have to meet for a coffee sometime.

 

[John Laidlaw]

Such a small world We have to meet for a coffee sometime.

Sounds like a plan next time I’m back up that way....

 

[mercedes13156]

Such a small world We have to meet for a coffee sometime.

It would be a pleasure! Remember - Free diagnostics for Forum members, and possibly a coffee thrown in.

 

[John Laidlaw]

^ Mini GTG brewing...

 

[silestanix]

Happy Christmas to all of you and your families...!