Don't play with it!!!!

Get your filthy minds out of the gutter! We are talking food here. Do you remember your parents telling you not to play with your food? I wonder how long these took ....

just for a laugh

I was sent a fantastic email with some alternative titles for kids books. They made me laugh so much that I thought I'd share them ...


THE WOMBLES GO HAPPY SLAPPING ...


THE VERY ANGRY CATERPILLAR ...


LITTLE MISS TEEN PERGNANCY ...


THE BIG NODDY DOGGING BOOK ...


THE SECRET GARDEN ... (took me a while to spot the type of garden this was!)


SPOT THE DOG ... (bit bitchy this one!)


OMG, WTF, BFG ...


BUNTY - DONNA'S ON THE GAME ...


BI-CURIOUS GEORGE ...


WHERE GLUE COMES FROM ...


LITTLE MISS TRANSVESTITE ...


I hope you have a good chuckle to yourselves, I certainly did :o)

A bit of culture ...

I feel like a bit of a stranger in blog-land. I haven't been here for a wee bit due to being worked off my ass, medical issues of my own (nothing serious ... "men's problems" hahaha) family medical issues (thankfully not McTavish) and strange phone calls from a Private Investigator!!! I'll keep all of these for future use :o)

Anyway, I promised a bit of culture ....

I was out and about with a couple of friends and we decided to head off on our usual road trips on a cold and wet Sunday a couple of weeks ago.

After many miles, we ended up in Melrose and decided a culture trip to Melrose Abbey was in order.



Melrose Abbey was founded around 1136 by King David I and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Richard II, in retaliation for a raid by the Scots in 1385, sent a force North of the border which burnt the Abbey to the ground. Work started on the complete rebuilding of the Abbey almost as soon as Richard's forces had left, and it is the remains of this new building which we see now.



The heart of King Robert I (The Bruce) is buried in a leaden casket in Melrose Abbey. Widely recognised as the greatest knight in Christendom, Robert the Bruce had always wished to take part in a crusade. His wish was fulfilled only after his death, when his embalmed heart was carried in a leaden casket on a crusade by his great friend James Douglas who was killed in battle. Bruce's heart was brought back to Melrose and buried in the Abbey.



The inscription beside the place where his heart is buried reads:
"with gret worshyp has gert bery The kingis hart at the abbey Off Melros ..."
- roughly translated as - 'The King's heart buried with great solemnity at the Abbey of Melrose'.

When walking amongst the ruins and climbing the very narrow staircase to the roof platform of the Abbey, I saw many of the gargoyles with their strange faces and large open mouths for the rain water. The statues and large, towering spires with their fancy and elaborate carvings were gorgeous, but I was getting frozen to death in the biting cold wind and decided to head down the stairs and back to ground level again.




A beautiful and very peaceful place to visit, steeped in Scottish history. Highly recommended from me!