Did The Broch and Peterhead on a fatbike bike packing tour last Summer. Beaaaaaaaaaaaaach!
Fit's wrang wi' Turra?
Could do tour de ned on bikes from the "Are they dear bikes theym" thread. With a compulsory 15min stop ootside the shop or even better a pub with a flat roof. Might result in a few strava records being broken.
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or even better a pub with a flat roof
Behold, the Pollok Inn
58 Brockburn Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4gV9XpfX9ZuFwboq9
BoardinBob thats a classic!
I don't actually scotroutes. Its in Currie is it? but means nowt to me
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The Abbot's Choice. First pub i ever went into in Edinburgh nearly 35 years ago. Not been back.
Flat roofed pubs? The Budgie, Blochairn Rd, Glasgow.
It's a long way for TJ, he'd have to overnight on Bruntsfield Links.
Flat roofed pubs eh? We nipped into the Braemar bar on the way back from West brewery on my stag do. Absolute daggers from the locals 🤣
The Cairn in Alva was amazing.
The Prince of Wales in Ayr had a flat roof and furniture bolted to the floor. Known as the POW. Long gone now and I don't know how to post images
If you drink in a pub with a flat roof, god will send helicopters to punish you
The Abbots/Pentland View as it was is a fine example, proves that even if you put one a nice suburb surrounded by nice ideal-customer professional middle class alcoholics, and pass it through the hands of countless optimistic bright eyed landlords for decades, the flatroofness will still soak downwards and infest the whole place. As above, so below.
You're a bad man.
A very bad man.
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Edit - re: nobeers dig at the port 🤣🤣🤣
Ooooft! If it wusny fir ra port, Greenock wid pure be the worst toon in Scotland!
NB- born and raised in the port!
Edit 2 for @big_scot_nanny... The upper port too, I'll have you know!
That's the very place scotroutes handy for the fitba and also the cheapest beer in town at that time
I was in the POW once, for a few drinks before a wedding reception at the racecourse, it wasn't the worst pub in town by a long shot!.
Day release at college in springburn featured some interesting pubs, the tastiest of which was a toss up between the Masonic and the Celtic club (we were multicultural) 😆
Back when I stayed in Kilmarnock, we played in the Ayrshire pool league on a Thursday night.
The away match against The Murray Bar in Shortlees was always an eye opener
https://goo.gl/maps/8wPnmSz9Yq4rnzz46
I've just googled the Stadium Bar Ibrox as that's a flat roofer I've had a few pints in having worked nearby. It wasn't awful outside match days but it seems it's now the Louden Tavern Rangers pub.
Which reminds me...I worked with a guy who was a mad Queens Park fan (probably a tautology that). He told a story about him and some QP fans going into the original Louden Tavern on Duke Street. They ordered pints, sat down quietly at the bar then one of them pointed up at the massive painting of William of Orange and asked the barman 'who's the big poof on the horse?' The response from the barman was a remarkably restrained 'drink up lads, you're leaving.' I suspect it wasn't the homophobic language that bothered him.
Scheme pubs ftw.
I’ve just googled the Stadium Bar Ibrox as that’s a flat roofer I’ve had a few pints in having worked nearby. It wasn’t awful outside match days but it seems it’s now the Louden Tavern Rangers pub.
Rather bizarrely, before it changed from the stadium bar it went through a spell as a Celtic pub.
I would personally be more inclined to donate a decent amount for doing some ridiculous, tedious thing that will be hated for every second of the alloted time than for doing something enjoyable that isn’t really a challenge.
Would be even better if you live streamed it and folk could make things happen to [s]make you even more miserable [/s] keep you motivated. I'd pay for that.
Had a drink in the stadium bar on a sub crawl, wasn't as bad as the shitehole in Tradeston (West Street stop, not the Lonsdale which is actually brilliant). Didn't realise the POW was away. Never been in but it was always the landmark that told you that you were entering White City. That flat roofer at Prestwick Toll looked like a proper shitehole for a while before it got done up, not as sketchy as the Vulcan though.
Rather bizarrely, before it changed from the stadium bar it went through a spell as a Celtic pub.
I think Ibrox is actually a fairly Catholic area and Parkhead is certainly surrounded by some pretty protestant parts.
When I worked in the area I think the Albion Way at the end of Woodville St was where the Celtic fans went on match day.
I worked in the Gorbals years back doing some cladding and drainage repairs to the flats. I never braved the Riverside tavern, but one of the locals offered to sell me the boots he was wearing so he could get another drink.
Adelphi St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/312rSZCfjDapDcoJA
@pandhandj - I worked in the Mclaren packaging factory up there for a couple of summers after school (early 90s), great views, a stones through from Kilmacolm 😉 Went for a few pints and a smake with some colleagues a few times, can't remember which bar though - was there one at the big roundabout at the top of the hill?
And hey, lets face it - it's no Larkfield (which I believe champions Inverclydes position as most deprived area in Europe/UK)
I'm from Inverclyde's Riveria west end of Gourock, right posh me.
I worked in the Gorbals years back doing some cladding and drainage repairs to the flats. I never braved the Riverside tavern
When I was at the nautical college we were advised on no uncertain terms that Sharkys was fine otherwise stick to the North side. I never felt the need to challenge that.
the bar I have always wanted to go in but never dared is the Sarries heid in Possil. I go past it when visiting my folks. Unfortunately the actual head outside it seems to have gone - I would have thought it was listed. Its now called the saracen bar
https://goo.gl/maps/Lcv59kYRPE6RXwXf6
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When I was at the nautical college we were advised on no uncertain terms that Sharkys was fine otherwise stick to the North side. I never felt the need to challenge that.
Yep sharkeys for a Friday lunch on payday, Sally macs and Shooters beside the court were safe too
I'm currently outdoors with a hipflask of single malt. Do the new rules come into force at midnight? If so, I'd best crack on and finish it! 😂
Enjoy.
Goes to show how ****in scunnert everyone is with this now, it's turned into a flat roofed pub thread. 😆
Used to be one on Springburn road that looked "interesting" as well but thats long gone I think
‘The Cairn in Alva was amazing.’
jeesuz, I remember playing pool there and getting served while in school uniform! Think the lounge out the back was called ‘findlays’ or something back in my day. Wasn’t too rough though, the Abercromby in Tillibody or the one next to the police station in Alloa, peppes?were more ‘interesting’.
Which one on Alva had the wire cage around the telly?
Could of been any, or all, of,...the Glen, the Johnston Arms, the Cairn or maybe the crown? The no5 and the cross keys were too posh for cages.
My go to was the Cross Keys in Stirling, not a flat roof only by the virtue that someone had the termenity to add a few floors above it. Must have been 15 when I was getting served in there.
Still cracks me up that my sister in law lives above it now.
Swinny suggests schools opening on the 1st a tall order
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55674400
Hardly a surprise. I doubt it'll be before mid-term and could very likely be much later.
The Eagle in Tillicoultry. Smells like smoke still. Always a nice bunch in there. Always upon leaving I hit up the jukebox for some George Michael/Boy George/ Savage Garden just to piss everyone off. Upon hearing my deep southern Carolina accent suddenly they were out of Tenants.
Hardly a surprise. I doubt it’ll be before mid-term and could very likely be much later.
Hope not. Apart from the main issue of it not being good for the kids, I'm hating working from home.
Can I ask a question about 'extended households'? Hope you can share some wisdom.
Us (fam of 5): Stirling. Elderly parents: Gourock.
Dad terminal cancer, frail, a bit doolally. Needing daily care from mum (catheters/bags/medication etc) supported by district nurse as needed. Mum dislocated shoulder, again, at Christmas and is now very restricted in movement. We got her a person to help with housework, but she cancelled them due to screaming Inverclyde and north Ayrshire cases. We agreed with that call. Lots of neighbours and friends helping with shopping etc so they are good there.
Its stuff in the house that needs done (beds, ironing, anything above shoulder height!), and some respite for mum from the never-ending isolation/grind.
Can we form an extended household with them? I have no siblings, so its only us, we are all at home, and with kids not being in school we are not in close contact so present no/very low risk.
Advice is... challenging. Scotland states only with someone living alone or with folks under 18, English rules would allow it as it allows for someone alone or with someone needing continuous care.
Common sense would say of course we can do it, but it doesn't seem that clear and I'd like to not cause my folks any stress if its not cut and dried. (Mum is rather adamant about certain things.
Genuinely looking for guidance - let me know your thoughts please
The majority of Scottish school pupils are learning from home, with a combination of set tasks and online sessions with teachers - Swinney quote
First week over - on-line session total 1 x 30mins for 1child out of 3. Still, I suppose this is better than last time... Set tasks seem to be much the same as the ones they were given last year, and the kids claim they also did in P7 (now in S2).
big scot nanny
Examples of reasonable excuses to go out:
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to provide care, assistance, support to or respite for a vulnerable person
I would think you are fine on that one. Morally you have to IMO
Limit it as much as possible - maybe select one of you to go over. do as much in one visit. all the sensible stuff you have thought of I am sure
the bit about extended households is different - that is for (IMO) a slightly different situation - the loney old person that would be physically OK but needs the emotional support
First week over – on-line session total 1 x 30mins for 1child out of 3. Still, I suppose this is better than last time… Set tasks seem to be much the same as the ones they were given last year, and the kids claim they also did in P7 (now in S2).
Last week I taught live online lessons for every period I was timetabled. Miles better, both for the pupils and for me than the 'set work once a week' approach we were forced to adopt last time. The response from pupils was overwhelmingly positive.
It's hugely variable not just between schools but within them. Lots of teachers are keen to do proper live lessons and have real interaction but there are also a lot who are terrified of it. Sadly the unions and some authorities have been pretty unsupportive of live lessons and that gives lots of teachers a ready excuse.
It's turned into a bit of a race to the bottom in some ways. Because some pupils might have difficulty accessing live lessons there's pressure on teachers to provide something much less engaging but more accessible. The trouble is that the ones that wouldn't access the live lessons won't access the alternatives either. Hey presto, impoverished experience for all.
