Rise Again Scotland

[watsonofearnock]

A number of Scottish enthusiasts are attempting to organise a meeting, initially on a fairly small scale and probably over a lunchtime. The venue will be somewhere in the W of Scotland. You will appreciate that these details are pretty vague but what we are trying to do is gauge interest. Please post on this thread if you are interested in attending such a meeting and we can then try and organise a date and venue round those that respond. Ensure that your profile is set to receive Private Messages to enable whoever ends up organising the meeting to contact you.
Any and all comments are welcome - and it is an open invitation - if you think you would like to come along then get posting.
John

[Go Mango]

Good stuff John, hope you get something going there. Remember when it happens this is gonna happen to you: .

France 0 Scotland 1
A' Ra best fae Rab.

[watsonofearnock]

Those first generation Ex-Pats - they still hae ra patter. Awrabest awratime Rab. Aye it was some result last night wisn't it. Jist hope we get a result tae - or it will be ben the close for a guid spew.
A'll jine ye in wan fur lang syne
John

[magnum hemi80]

HI watsonofearnock,
If you come in north of france PM please
I live near highway CALAIS/ REIMS
Seen you soon

[MattRobertson]

Note the French guy is easier to understand than the Scot.

[mofoninja]

Note the French guy is easier to understand than the Scot.

bwahaha!

[watsonofearnock]

Well, we have finally made arrangements for our first ever meeting in Scotland. – Sunday 4th May and the venue is New Lanark which is around 35 miles south-east of Glasgow. The date has been chosen to coincide with the early May Bank Holiday to encourage as many of you as possible to come along and the venue picked for easy access from as far south as Land’s End and as far north as John O’Groats. New Lanark is a World Heritage Site – a mill founded by David Dale in 1786 but in due course sold on to his son-in-law Robert Owen a philanthropic industrialist (try saying that after a few!!).. The mills are sited on the banks of the River Clyde adjacent to the Falls of Clyde and have been beautifully restored. See http://www.newlanark.org/ for full details of the venue. We are proposing that while arrival time is up to yourself (ideally between 10.0am and 11.0am) we all get together for lunch at 12.30pm in the New Lanark Mill Hotel dining room. On Sundays, lunch takes the form of a carvery meal with two courses costing £12.50 and three courses coming in at £14.50. Obviously if you don’t want to have lunch in the dining room you can come along for the cars which we will have parked up as a display and you can feel free to have a picnic lunch or the New Lanark Mill Hotel serves pub lunches in their bar.
What we would like you to do is to post on here if you intend coming along and let us know whether you are bringing passengers and obviously numbers involved. But ………. we also want you to phone the New Lanark Mill Hotel on 01555 667200 and book in your own numbers for lunch. You must however tell them that you wish to be seated with the rest of us at the Chrysler table. Full details of the hotel can be viewed at http://www.newlanarkhotel.co.uk/
Accommodation is of course available at the hotel and they also have available Self Catering “Waterhouses” and in fact there is even a luxury Youth Hostel if you are that way inclined. There are also many B & B’s in Lanark itself and the surrounding area. New Lanark is readily accessed from the M74, the M8 and the Peebles/Selkirk area via the A72/A721.
So very much a come as you wish affair. Organisation will be kept to the minimum as will restrictions – in fact there are none – as they used to say in the good old Dennis Wheatley books “Do what thou wilt be the whole of the rule”. I look forward to seeing you there!! Drop me a PM if you would like to come along - so I can keep track of numbers.
Cheers John

[Go Mango]

Good work John, hope you get many LX'ers attending.

[aarcuda]

Oh I so wish I could make this event! Bob Wallace III

[watsonofearnock]

With a name like that Bob you should be there. Lanark was where Wallace first started his guerrilla warfare against the forces of occupation and there is a statue to him at the local church - see http://www.clyde-valley.com/lanark/index.htm Shame you can't join us. And Go Mango is always there to give me support - thanks.
Cheers John

[Blondie]

John can you have some haggis and McEwans Scotch ale ready for me..... I have to make my trip over there worth while
Your Friend Fiona

[watsonofearnock]

Hi Fiona,
You are much better off with some Tennant's lager - far more popular in Scotland these days. But haggis is no bother - I will shoot a fresh one for you.
Cheers John