Must be mad!!

[Gordon173]

W6R1 wet cold windy are we downhearted??? Neh it’s Scotland may as well be summer 😂😂. Definitely clears the cockles so they say 👌

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

As long as you warm the cockles later Huge well done you!

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

Och aye - it’ll fairly have blawn the cobwebs away ! Juist as lang as ye didnae come hame sirpan an founert wi the watter cholderin in yer buits. Mind an wear yer woolly semmit fan ye ging the next time ! (Translation available on request) 😁

[Tartancat Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

Beautifully put BK, and good advice too!

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to Tartancat]

I just knew you’d understand 😜

[Tartancat Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

I've got family near Aberdeen, and I read a lot of Christopher Brookmyre, so it mostly made sense!

[Gordon173 in reply to Tartancat]

Best place in the world 😉😂

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to Tartancat]

A friend introduced me to Brookmyre’s books just this year. Still not sure if I’m amused or appalled by them ! 😄

[Tartancat Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

Yeah, don't let the kids get hold of them - appalling language!!

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to Tartancat]

It’s not so much the language - it’s the quantity of unpleasant people who don’t seem to have any real motive for being so awful 😄

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

ButtercupKid, I live in Central Scotland but I don't know "Doric" which is spoken in North East Scotland. 😊 where you come from, lol I found that amusing, some words I did understood in your reply to Gordon173.

"Yes the wind will have blown the cobwebs away, just as long as you did not come home with water chilling your backside, remember to wear a warm wolly jumper the next time you go outside in the cold"

Correct me if I got any of that 'doric' translation wrong.

[Gordon173 in reply to AlMorr]

We just make up our own words up here 😂. Simmit depending on how you read it is normal an undergarment I think like long johns 😂

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

It’s gone a bit weird in the middle, AlMorr ! I said it was ok as long as he wasn’t soaking and frozen with the water squelching in his footwear ! Oh - and a semmit is a vest, not a jumper. Excellent first attempt though 😄

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

I admit I was wrong with some of my 'translation' thanks BCK for the correction, how about this

" Its a brauw brioche moonlicht nicht the nicht". or "hootsmon, theres a moose looos abooot the hoose" 😪

Back to 🏃 running , I hope you are enjoying your week 2 of C25K, I am sure you will be able to run it in less than the 9 weeks it took for week 1, also, I hope you have sorted out the Christmas🎄 Day situation with your family. 😊

[Gordon173]

Nivvir founert. A wee dram and all’s well 😉

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to Gordon173]

Aye - ye can aye mak yersel a wee toddy. And I bet AlMorr knows that one !

[Runforestrun18 Graduate]

Well done! I am a soft southerner and very wimpy about the cold... had to run in gloves this morning even here in balmy Devon. I salute you!

[Irish-John Graduate]

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and the Outer Hebrides, February 1988 with a 60lb backpack - buses, trains and hitchhiking. Snowing, raining and fog.

One of the best trips I ever took Scotland can put Ireland in the shade when it comes to scenery and people surprisingly often

[Gordon173 in reply to Irish-John]

Hmmm not sure. Was over in Belfast and Dublin last year and a trip up to port Stewart and portrush lovely places and beautiful beaches 👌. Never get fed up over there

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Gordon173]

Everywhere I've ever been ( except for Paris, no kidding) I have met with great people...beautiful scenery can be a bit trickier Scotland is a place I fervently hope I can revisit some day - it's definitely on my 'Top 5' list along with The PRC, Tierra Del Fuego and Calcutta (yes, now 'Kolkata' but I think its a case where not only the mane changed but the entire 'meaning' - glad the Cold War era is well over, but will certainly miss the 'This is India' non-diluted culture and street sights if/when I do get back)

Portrush is certainly on the map - revisited there just this last September for the first time since 1967! Couldn't really stop as we had a pressing engagement further South but the time we had there as short as it was brought back some of the best memories I possess

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Irish-John]

Thanks Irish-John on praising my home country of Scotland, but Ireland is a beautiful country as well, many years ago I was with my father and we took a cycling holiday from Larne to a place on the Antrim coast called Balleygally, on a clear day I could see Scotland.

There is a railway line in Scotland called "The West Highland Line", that railway has been nominated by one of those ' best railway in the world for scenic views" magazines several times, problem is that Scotrail the company running the line uses old 40 tear old trains that keep breaking down, they do say that the service will improve in years to come.

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Is it because the 'modern' trains won't fit the track or something like that? Sounds like fun as long as one is not in a hurry

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Aye! That’s the spirit... do you get a summer? If you do I’m moving! Nothing can stop a determined runner... onwards!

[Gordon173 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

We do. 12th August!! 😂😂 👍

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Gordon173]

Ah... ours is June 15th 😂

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

PS Regarding the summer of 2018, Where I live in Central Scotland saw the highest daytime temperature ever for this area on the 28th June, at least 3 officially recognised Met Office thermometers registered a maximum daytime temperature of 91F/33C on that summer day in June.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

That’s day off running stuff normally, but it was relentless this summer.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Summer UNM????. How are you and MISS UNM, I hope you are both keeping well.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Well... she’s jealous because I did 6.04 k and she’s only done 6 😂. I’m pretty sure she had the 40m in reserve but tomorrow she’s going 6.5! I have some 400m sprints to do if the snow doesn’t stick!

Summer will be back with us all too soon 😂

Trust you’re keeping well my friend.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

I am keeping very well thank you UNM, I have been going long walks rather than running recently but during the walk I go for a short run just to make sure my legs are OK.

I knew it would happen between you and your daughter, may I call it "friendly competition".

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

I’ll keep up the pretence that she can’t beat me for a while 😂. It does me good to be pushed a little while educating her on how little it’s healthy to push in one go. I said to her earlier we can both probably do 10k tomorrow but in doing so we will be aching for days if not injured for weeks. She’s staring to get it.

Great to see you out there keeping fit, and the little runs are my go to test of the legs.

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

Looking brighter now, thanks - more than I can say for the weather here !