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Glasgow meet ?

(317 Posts)
bridie54 Tue 01-Feb-22 23:15:45

I'm going to be at DD's house near Glasgow 14-23 March and wondered if anyone fancied meeting up then. I've never been to a meet up in Glasgow so maybe if anyone has and knows a good venue they could say where would be good.

TillyTrotter Thu 17-Feb-22 16:26:08

It’s a lovely, descriptive alternative to English words Baggs ?
I use wabbit now Marydoll.

Grannmarie Thu 17-Feb-22 20:09:52

And plenty of people are crabbit...

baubles Thu 17-Feb-22 20:35:05

Grannmarie I can be a crabbit wee besom if I don’t get enough sleep!grin

Marydoll Thu 17-Feb-22 20:52:48

We should change our name to the Crabbit and Wabbit, Glesca, Wee Besoms., even although most of us don't actually live in Glasgow itself!

ixion Thu 17-Feb-22 20:56:06

Blimey.
I think those planning to come from south of Border would need to be provided with a Handbook of Useful Phrases.

Grandmabatty Thu 17-Feb-22 20:56:57

It sounds like a folk group or relatives of Fran and Anna!

Marydoll Thu 17-Feb-22 21:07:42

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNGFJMJaqGU

Meine Doppelgängerinnen. You will have no difficulty recognising me at the meet! wink

Marydoll Thu 17-Feb-22 21:09:36

ixion

Blimey.
I think those planning to come from south of Border would need to be provided with a Handbook of Useful Phrases.

That can be arranged. I have always had a hankering for writing a book and I am a wannabe linguist, as you well know IXION. ?????

ixion Thu 17-Feb-22 21:15:18

Think me 'n' Fanny would need advance tuition were we to come. DuoLingo, maybe?

Would we get the opportunity to wear kilts????

Marydoll Thu 17-Feb-22 21:27:08

Do you have the legs for a kilt? We can't have you frightening the natives, can we?

Grannmarie Thu 17-Feb-22 22:45:47

Baubles, me too!?

Marydoll Thu 17-Feb-22 22:58:55

What do you call a group of crabbit wee besoms? Answers on a postcard please! ?????????

Or, we could have a competition with a prize for the best answers at the meet up! I'm happy to provide the prize.

I'm getting a bit carried away, aren't I? ?

Kalu Fri 18-Feb-22 00:39:48

Marydoll

What do you call a group of crabbit wee besoms? Answers on a postcard please! ?????????

Or, we could have a competition with a prize for the best answers at the meet up! I'm happy to provide the prize.

I'm getting a bit carried away, aren't I? ?

Greetin’ faced. ?

Marydoll Fri 18-Feb-22 07:18:12

Kalu

Marydoll

What do you call a group of crabbit wee besoms? Answers on a postcard please! ?????????

Or, we could have a competition with a prize for the best answers at the meet up! I'm happy to provide the prize.

I'm getting a bit carried away, aren't I? ?

Greetin’ faced. ?

That sums me up exactly, Kalu, ?

baubles Fri 18-Feb-22 07:28:49

Greetin’ faced crabbit wee besom -
the perfect description of someone I had the misfortune to work with many years ago. ??

Jangran99 Fri 18-Feb-22 10:00:21

I've been described as she a nippy sweetie that yin. Can't think whygrin

FannyCornforth Fri 18-Feb-22 11:29:05

ixion

Think me 'n' Fanny would need advance tuition were we to come. DuoLingo, maybe?

Would we get the opportunity to wear kilts????

Is there a Glaswegian Wordle, I wonder?

I’m polishing my sporran in anticipation

And what is a nippy sweetie?

Marydoll Fri 18-Feb-22 12:36:45

A ^nippie sweetie^:

NOUN
(also nippie sweetie)
Scottish
1 drink of spirits, especially of whisky; whisky.

2 sharp-tongued or peevish person, especially a woman.

3 sharp-tasting sweet, or one which makes the mouth hot.

I think I may fit the criteria for no.2.

Jan, you certainly are not.

FannyCornforth Fri 18-Feb-22 12:45:35

Is a ‘sweetie’ ever a good thing, or is it always derogatory?
I heard a man in Four in a Bed call a fellow competitor a ‘sweetie wifey’, and I wasn’t sure what he meant at all

Marydoll Fri 18-Feb-22 13:30:12

A sweetie wife, is usually an elderly man, who likes to gossip or be involved in the affairs of women.
I know a few of those!

We should start a Scottish word a day thread! grin

FannyCornforth Fri 18-Feb-22 13:42:38

That sounds great! Go for it! ???????

Marydoll Fri 18-Feb-22 13:51:31

I was only joking Fanny!! ?

FannyCornforth Fri 18-Feb-22 13:56:09

I’m going to hold you to it now Mary
I will ask you the meaning of a word everyday!

Btw inspired by you and ixion , I am seriously considering an Open Learning Latin course

Grandmabatty Fri 18-Feb-22 14:14:04

Moudiewart is Scottish for mole. Fanny

Grannmarie Fri 18-Feb-22 14:32:02

To girn means whine, often a child.
Girny, girning....