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HELLO FORKERS - April 2020 🐣

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  • epsilonsageepsilonsage Posts: 31
    The world is truly a small place🙂
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    indeed so. 
    All the smaller since we got the internet eh?
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    My Mothers family lived in the Greenock area for a time , her farther was a joiner & cabinet maker & worked in the shipyards on the Clyde for a time.
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Allotment Boy said:
    My Mothers family lived in the Greenock area for a time , her farther was a joiner & cabinet maker & worked in the shipyards on the Clyde for a time.
    we get everywhere you know.  ;)
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Morning peeps.  Overslept this morning - not that I’m going to be late for anything, but hope it won’t become a habit.

    Sowed my sweet peas yesterday - hope they romp away quickly.  My tomatoes and cucumbers are certainly going for it 👍🏻

    SM trip today ......feels like an outing.  Better get dressed up 💃🏼

    Will also find a twig to decorate with coloured eggs for easter .....doesn’t really feel like a holiday, but I’m going to make the effort anyway 😇
  • epsilonsageepsilonsage Posts: 31
    @Allotment Boy my father and his 2 brothers worked in the shipyards, then they emigrated to Australia and worked in the BHP Whyalla shipyards.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    I agree that our natives have lots of unappreciated beauty. We have many here 
    S. E. NSW
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Morning all, no Scottish ties here I'm afraid, according to Firstborn who did our family tree a while ago.  Our ancestors were strictly canal people, no wonder I love Peaky Blinders
    Historian Peter Frankopan is talking about Covid 19 on the TV (what a fabulous name).
    I'm really tired today but I'm sure I'll feel better once I get out and 'do a bit' in the garden. 

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    edited April 2020

    It was said at one time half the civil engineers & other skilled trades around the world were all originally from Scotland!
    AB Still learning

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Bearsden? Very posh!  I'm technically a "Son of the Rock", born in Dumbarton just around the corner of the Kilpatrick Hills from Bearsden. We took lessons at Bearsden Ski Club's dry ski slope back in the 80's before heading off to the Alps. Our last visit to Bearsden a couple of years ago was to see Iraqi friends who escaped Saddam's war with Iran to settle back in Scotland where they had been students. Small world indeed.
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