Anything Scottish, just for fun!

oscash said:
My darling old Grandad hadn't been back to his beloved Scotland for almost 30 years, so he decided to visit the old country with my grandmother. He wanted to see the Edinburgh Tattoo. When the massed bands came marching out, he said he burst into tears because it
bought back old memories of himself with his old regiment. When they played "Will ye no come back again?", he said that was it for him, because he knew he would never see the old place ever again. God Bless you Grandad.
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I know the feeling, I get a lump in my throat, when I
hear some old song or tune, from my youth.

Mike.
 

Mizmo said:
AH the Valeta...so graceful.
I did a lot of ballroom dancing in my day and The Albert Dance Hall in Glasgow was
the only one who would play the music for it.
The male dancers were not so keen but many good dancers went there so it was always a treat to watch them
and occasionally get asked to dance it.

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I think you must mean the Albert Ballroom in Bath street, do you ?(y)


One of my friends who loved traditional country dancing and I would go occasionally to a hotel that had a ballroom, in Charing Cross.. I can't remember for the life of me what the hotel was called.. but you could also have supper there if you could afford it ...

of course we disco'd on friday nights.. and our friends at the terminal one club in St Enoch square or Clouds in Sauchiehall st would have been horrified at knowing we went country dancing on another night.. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Mike said:
I know the feeling, I get a lump in my throat, when I
hear some old song or tune, from my youth.

Mike.
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I think that Scots and Irish are very loyal to their country's traditional ways .. and we do get emotional when we hear music that we've known all our lives...
 

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All pipers should be admired, they play lots of different tunes,
all without sheet music.
Many, many, years ago, in Edinburgh, I had the pleasure of
witnessing, 1,000 pipers, they started in Holyrood Park, by the
Palace of Holyrood House, they marched from there, up the
High street, (The Royal Mile), then down to Princes Street and
headed west towards Corstorphine, each bad a few yards behind
the one ahead of them, but every piper was playing the same tune
without making a mistake, at least to my ears.

No, I am not a Piper, though I sometimes wished that I was.

Mike.
 
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