littleboyblue

Somewhere I went quite often a while back. Late 90s now I think about it.

The Mitre as in up a wee lane of Argyll St? Brunswick St maybe.?

I was on the verge of buying a mattress from Dreams around a year ago and the saleswoman tried to throw in the mattress protector at a 'reduced price'. 'Let's be honest, its always the men the that pee the bed' she turned and said to my wife. How she thought that was a good sales line I'll never know. Straight over the road to Benson's it was!

I served PK a few times while working in Hills when I was a student. I've met Michael Watt in his role in Financial Services.

It would have been the White Hart Hotel in Campbeltown - 'The Hert'. Had actually been going in to play pool for a couple of years anyway at weekends and school lunchtimes and ordering Irn Bru etc. Then someone ordered a drink, got it, and the flood gates opened. I would have been 16 but some were probably still 15. I remember one time, maybe during exams when we were in during school hours, the barmaid asking if school was shut that day. Think we all just looked at the floor and muttered 'eh, don't know' as she probably went off grinning. They knew fine in there.

It was indeed six until today but that didn't include the 2000 CIS cup final, which was a few weeks before the Hibs semi.

I stayed near Masham for a week last summer and although this might not be appealing to you, Hampden View, we had a great day at the Forbidden Corner with the kids. http://www.theforbiddencorner.co.uk/ Its not just for kids obviously but I would recommend it as a family day out.

Didn't see an answer to whoever was asking about the French forward at Hearts. Was it Stephane Adam? Seem to remember he formed part of a pretty good front three with mccann and Hamilton.

I remember being verbally abused to the sounds of 'sheep shagging b@stard' in German accents from a balcony above the street I was walking down in Oporto during Euro 2004. I was wearing a white replica away shirt with red pin stripes, so possibly Hamburg fans still hurting about the Super Cup! My three mates, two Celtic and one St Mirren, made a visibly attempt to distance themselves from me to make it clear they were not sheep shaggers! I thought it was a good spot from them to pick out an away strip from a different era.

I read that Bryan Gunnsson was on the bench. It looked Icelandic to me. I was also joking.

Looks more of an Icelandic name to me.

I remain to be convinced the opposing EU ref results in Scotland and elsewhere alone will sway the population sufficiently on Independence, to reach the 60% most seem to feel is required to be confident of a Yes vote. Is this so different to year after year of Tory government that Scotland has subserviently accepted, despite not voting for, in the name of the UK? Would pro EU No voters see this as more important than who the government is?

Not sure about that, deecie. I thought that only worked from QR2 to QR3 due the draw for QR3 taking place between the 1st and 2nd legs and the winner of the tie being unknown at the time. I think the play off draw is made after the 2nd leg of QR3, in which case the winner of the tie is known and if we got there we would be relying on our own paltry coefficient.

Then again, we took Rijeka's seeding last year, drew the unseeded Kairat and went out.

True, from the point of view of getting to QR3, but we will be unseeded in that draw if we get there. It might have been better to draw a (beatable) higher ranked team in QR2 to then piggy back on that seeding for QR3 and give a better chance of getting to the play-off.

Aberdeen will face one of these five: 6 Trakai (LTU), 7 RoPS Rovaniemi (FIN), 8 Spartaks Jūrmala (LVA), 9 Valur Reykjavík (ISL), 10 Fola Esch (LUX) Hearts will face: 6 Víkingur (FRO), 7 Sūduva (LTU), 8 Cork City (IRL), 9 Infonet (EST), 10 Connah's Quay Nomads (WAL)

Good luck with all this, sounds like it could be tricky. Your Mum probably need some legal representation as others have said. Things I would be looking at would be how the house is owned. I think neilser was hinting at this but there are two main ways two people can own a house. Terminology differs in Scotland and England but essentially two people can own the whole house jointly, or they can jointly own it in shares. You've given clear percentages so its probably the latter. You might here phrases such as joint tenants, tenants in common and separable common ownership used. Some lawyers would advocate removing the survivorship clause in a will so each person could will their share to whoever they wanted. A person can only grant a POA if mentally capable of doing so. Otherwise someone would need to apply to the Court to become a Financial Guardian. I'm not saying this is the case here. Lastly, I guess those dealing with the estate of the Partner will need a Court appointment since he died intestate. The only people who should be able to touch his assets, in theory, are his legal representatives or a joint owner. Since he did not appoint and Executor in his lifetime, I would say there is currently no-one able to act for his estate, although that is probably what his side are now working on.

I thought, due to the 1St and 2nd qualifying round draw being made on the same day, Aberdeen were assured of being unseeded in round 2? I think we need to draw and beat someone with a coefficient of around 10 or more I.E. Hadjuk split in round 2 to have a chance of being seeded in round 3. Hearts due to being seeded in round 2 have no chance of being seeded in round 3 (since they'll play a non seed in round 2 and be relying on their own coefficient). A bit like how we took rijeka's coefficient in round 3 last year rather than our own.

There were so many failings, which all contributed to the disaster and undoubtedly there was human error from SYP but more than anything the design of the stadium and the approach to it contributed. The approach was what it was of course but the planning was inadequate to handle the amount of people who needed to use that entrance. Those dividing fence on the terrace were crazy though. Presumably 10,100 fans was a safe number for that size of terrace but the uneven distribution was the problem. The majority fans just did what came naturally - head for the tunnel immediately in front of the turnstile and in line of sight. Many probably didn't even know there were other tunnels to the left and right. However, even allowing for that, as the Prof. guy (I think) was saying, had those dividing fences not been there the crowd would have naturally evened itself out, through either a conscious choice by some to move, or even simply by the movement of the crowd, to the left and right. Its horrible seeing the images of the empty terrace knowing how many people were crammed in there - the central 'pens' didn't even look that big - absolutely horrific. Even hearing them referred to as pens is horrible as it conjures up images of people being herded in to a small area and is indicative of how football fans seem to have been treated then. I do remember the day itself - I would have been 10, the same age as the youngest boy who dies - but of course the details we now know for certain were a long way from coming out and I'm sad to say I probably believed some of the lies about fans' behaviour being a factor.

I had similar five years ago when I moved house on 5/5/11. Followed the removal van out the street after voting for Bill Kidd, helping him to a majority of 7 and woke up to James Kelly as my MSP the next day. Glad to say Kelly was removed yesterday, albeit he is back in as fourth on the Glasgow list.

I very much support PR, jailender and I should have perhaps said I don't particularly want to see that scenario I described come about. I suppose I was just highlighting what is possible, although as I hinted at it wouldn't feel right. I do want a pro-indy majority though and if that comes exclusively with SNP MSPs so be it. I'm happy for other voices to make up that majority too.

Yip, thought the same in the past too. Just make it blatant, a single policy of supporting the SNP in Parliament. Said party could take circa half the 56 list MSPs due to it having no constituency MSPs and probably be the opposition! If the SNP took 90% of the constituencies there would be near on 90 pro indy MSPs excluding Greens, Independents, RISE etc. in a parliament of 129. Maybe over 100 in total. It might seem a bit grubby but politics is never fair as we know.

They don't have the power to do anything else.

My mother in law has an African grey. I think she paid about £600 for it last year. Then she spent a fortune on parrot friendly paint for the living room. Somebody seen her coming I think.

Pretty sure Logan is suspended for the St Johnstone game.