Old Weird Scotland

If you got a giggle or a wow from #OldWeirdScotland and would like to chuck some coppers in the hat (and are in a position to), it will always mean a lot to me 😊 ko-fi.com/weirdscotland Cheers, Jack

It's "help an undergraduate research project time"! Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was a lot of fun! forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2h4…

@KMotherofcats I don't have any connection to him, but I found that he passed in 1992. He was married for 21 years. His wife Betty outlived him by 4 years. He'd no children.

Doing a favour for someone, not a long lost child 🤣 just and want to know if a John K Hearty born in Coatbridge had a happy life, he would be 105 so likely no longer with us but any existing family able to update me on behalf a very old friend who wonders about his life.

I will be back and active again in some form, but just wanted to wish you all a Guid Halloween, and check that pork pies didn't feature in your evening's festivities (but if they did that's cool too). #OldWeirdScotland

@TukeyBlairhall Nice one. Actually struggled to find out anything about him. Thanks!

Mystery photo time! So many of Scotland's "stock" postcards are/were sold with little or no details. Where is this? Who's dancin? (am askin) When is this? #OldWeirdScotland 📸 Roberto Matassa

@LynneFe17001627 was my first thought too, but can't make it fit unfortunately

@WeirdScotland It looks like the Hillfoots ie Alva. Late 60s?

No word from @WeirdScotland, but I’m celebrating #PieMonday anyway. Lamb and onion on the way!

Behold, he cometh with tines; and every eye shall see him, they also which pierced (but also scooped) with him. Edinburgh Spork Company ad, 1935 #OldWeirdScotland

More mystery images: Almost certainly in Scotland but does anyone recognise where? #OldWeirdScotland

Where is this? No other clues bar those you can see in the pic, unfortunately. Dundee photographer. A real mystery. #OldWeirdScotland

@DMMacphail1 spot on well done!

@WeirdScotland Looks like the gateway to of the Dunkeld House Hotel.

@LorrHayn I think you are spot on there! Well done!

@cocteautriplets we had one. Honestly felt like the delorean taking off every time it rose up. We'd a Montego before that. They did feel huge (but I was also wee).

@GM2UWX @ScotlandsPeople including in one of my all time favourite "franchise crossover" names. I hope he is out there flourishing.

There have been 50 people born in Scotland and named Anakin as part of their forenames with the first being born in 2002 thus now or soon to be 22 years. source @ScotlandsPeople statutory records birth search.

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@GM2UWX Lovely! I will have a rake for you.

@WeirdScotland We're doing the whole "Oathing Stone" at our wedding and I was trying to look into the history of it but I can't find any reliable sources - any pointers. Not even wikipedia offers anything.

Traditional music for the Scandinavian midsummer “Schottis” dance. It's not known for sure who plays on this recording but it's likely to be accordion duo Arvid Franzen and Einar Holt recorded in the mid 1920s in New York: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-m… #Midsommar