Lodgebo has been kind enough to answer any questions we have about living in Scotland. Please post your questions, and he will try to get to them and answer them.
Do people walk around in kilts? Does the wind ever blow the kilt up a-la-marilyn monroe and give everyone a surprise?
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fuscia said this in post #2 : What is the weather like there, and what is your favorite soccer team?
Well the weather where I live is mainly cool and dry in the summer your average summer temperature is between 15 - 21 degrees centigrade. You get the worst of the rain in August but there is this misconception that it is always raining here actually Rome gets more rain than we do. Up North in Aberdeen it's normally always cold but that's mainly because of the wind you get coming in from the North sea and down from Norway. As for the winter it is freezing don't always get snow just really cold however up North they get bad winters deeps snow and some places shut down because it is to dangerous to go out, it's not uncommon for kids in Aberdeen and Inverness to miss about 2 weeks school in the winter months.
As for the soccer team I support well I support Glasgow Rangers who are the most successful soccer team in the world.
illuminate said this in post #3 : Do people walk around in kilts? Does the wind ever blow the kilt up a-la-marilyn monroe and give everyone a surprise?
We don't always walk about in Kilts you mainly see Kilts at events like family weddings also at the Rugby, soccer ( I wore mine on Staurday) and on Hogmany ( new years eve) so it's mainly special event's the only bad thing about wearing your kilt on New years is that things start to get cold.
As for the kilt blowing up nah it's to heavy to be blown up ,we just lift em up and flash people a -la - Braveheart.
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
Leonna said this in post #8 : What are some of the best haunted castles to visit while in Scotland?
Well Glamis castle is pretty good it's where the queen mother grew up. Apparently the Devil was at glamis and taunted the earl to gamble on a Sunday which resulted in him being cursed to gamble till doomsday and they say you can still him here him gambling, there is unusual sounds of builders when no work is being done on the castle, a little boy and of course no self respecting castle would be without a green lady would it. Glamis also has a terrible curse that all the men of the family are told on their 21st birthday I think at least 1 ma has killed himself on hearing the curse.
Culzean Castle has a few ghosts to main one is a piper that had his hands chopped off so he could not play the pipes to alert his master that the castle had been invaded apparently you can still hear pipes playing on misty nights.
What's the overall feeling toward the Irish over there? And do you play golf... I do, drunk.
-HECK!
As a general rule we tend to get on well with the Irish obviously things like the immigartion problems of hundred of years ago caused problems but nowdays we tend to get on I think it's because we have the same type of attitude we want or like the idea of independence, we like a good drink and a good fight ( not always in that order) and we are fiercly patriotic. you will always get pockets of people in Scotland that don't like the Irish and vice versa but overall we quite like the Irish.
I played Golf once and it was a bad mistake maybe I should play drunk it might improve my game.
Glamis also has a terrible curse that all the men of the family are told on their 21st birthday I think at least 1 ma has killed himself on hearing the curse.
Oooh, I wonder what the curse is! Any tales of what it may be?
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
10-10-2006 08:54 PM
