Hi from Edinburgh [Archive] - British Blades

Gareth

29-01-05, 04:30 AM

Just found this site while I couldn't sleep and have been reading for about an hour now. :C
Had to sign up just so as I can be sure it isn't all a dream. :)

shing

29-01-05, 09:22 AM

hi Gareth and welcom, are you a collector, maker or user or all 3!

Chux

29-01-05, 09:35 AM

Hi and welcome to BB

Danzo

29-01-05, 10:26 AM

Hi Gareth, it's not a dream, but some of us are delusional!

;)

Welcome and enjoy!

:biggthump

Danzo

Colin KC

29-01-05, 10:30 AM

Welcome Gareth (I'm not usually allowed to speak to newbies 'case I scare them off, but no one's looking:D)

Gareth

29-01-05, 11:09 AM

Thanks all, to answer Shing's question I am only a small time collector with not much money and a lovely wife who dosen't quite get it.

wolflore

29-01-05, 11:11 AM

Welcome to a forum that has proved quite interesting to me so far. Oh, and you don't have to show the wife every knife you buy!

Ross

29-01-05, 11:58 AM

Hi Gareth, welcome to BB! Whereabouts in Edinburgh are you? I'm in Edinburgh too - i've probably stopped you driving your car somewhere....;)

Graham

29-01-05, 12:36 PM

Hi Gareth, welcome to the forum.

Cheers,

Graham

MotorbikeMan

29-01-05, 12:41 PM

Welcome to the Forum Gareth. Don't be scared of ColinKC, someone forgot to lock his cage :D ;)

trojanargus

29-01-05, 01:06 PM

Welcome to the Forum Gareth. Don't be scared of ColinKC, someone forgot to lock his cage :D ;)

...or MotorbikeMan...he been out of his for ages.......... :D

welcome mate, just get stuck in :lol:

mirage

29-01-05, 01:14 PM

Welcome on board. Surrender your wallet at the gate. Practice saying this to the missus: "What? That old thing? I've had it for years!"

I love Edinburgh. I was there a few weeks ago. In fact, the missus and I tagged onto the end of the "Save Scotland's regiments" march! Anyone who has footage of it can spot us right at the tail end as the procession crosses Waverley Bridge.

I might even have seen Ross...

mirage

Underhay

29-01-05, 01:15 PM

Welcome to the forum Gareth :biggthump

Basemetal

29-01-05, 01:22 PM

Welcome Gareth,
The Scot's contingent is slowly growing...I'm in Aberdeenshire
Danny

trojanargus

29-01-05, 01:30 PM

The Scot's contingent is slowly growing...

"Ay, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom. "

:rolleye11

Basemetal

29-01-05, 01:49 PM

"Ay, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom. "

:rolleye11

I was thinking more of a piece of tablet and some soor plooms...

trojanargus

29-01-05, 01:56 PM

I was thinking more of a piece of tablet and some soor plooms...

"The Galashiels crest can be seen on the North West facade of the municipal buildings, and shows a fox trying to reach plums hanging on a tree, with the motto "Sour Plums". This commemorates a Border foray of 1337, when some English soldiers were caught while picking wild plums, resulting in them being killed. "

Seems fair :O

Gareth

29-01-05, 02:11 PM

Hi Ross, I'm from Leith originally (just up from the links) but now stay out at the Inch. Mirage I might well of seen you as I was in town that day and saw the whole of the march.

Basemetal

29-01-05, 02:25 PM

"The Galashiels crest can be seen on the North West facade of the municipal buildings, and shows a fox trying to reach plums hanging on a tree, with the motto "Sour Plums". This commemorates a Border foray of 1337, when some English soldiers were caught while picking wild plums, resulting in them being killed. "

Seems fair :O

Had no idea wild plums were so dangerous....bushcrafters beware!

Ross

29-01-05, 02:32 PM

Hi Ross, I'm from Leith originally (just up from the links) but now stay out at the Inch. Mirage I might well of seen you as I was in town that day and saw the whole of the march.

I work in Edinburgh Gareth, I think theres another member who lives over the Inch way as well. I wasnt working at that march, but I think I would recognise Mirage from his retiral photo!!

Gareth

29-01-05, 04:36 PM

Ah yes, spend many a night (and a bit of money) drinking down at the shore. In fact I used to live next door to the owner of Holmes bar. In my defence I have never been stopped by the police for anything, not even speeding! :-)

Gareth

29-01-05, 05:38 PM

Arrgh...Ross I just had a look at your Bio and found that you're a couple of years younger than me :mad45: Now I will have to re-set my mental picture of you :D

Ross

29-01-05, 07:20 PM

:)

and i *still* feel old!! I do the training for the new cops.......

Basemetal

29-01-05, 07:27 PM

:)

and i *still* feel old!! I do the training for the new cops.......

you are, Ross...you are...

:cool20:

mirage

29-01-05, 10:12 PM

"...as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 A.D.

mirage