Is there anyone else, like me, who doesn't believe in ghosts (at least not since I was about 9) but would be scared to spend a night alone in a spooky old house on a misty cold night, with strange sounds and stuff like that?
After a stint in the british army sleeping out in the dutch woods or sleeping under the wagons. That sounds like luxury but that was a long time ago but I can still sleep on a razor blade in a storm no problem.Originally Posted by chaggle
Ghostire and kelpies hold no fears for me just fundies terrify me.
What's them?
My typo should be "ghosties and kelpies".
ghostie any white sheet with or without eyes floating in the air..
kelpie any sea or fresh water beastie with big teeth to gobble you up with i.e nessie.
My typo should be "ghosties and kelpies".
ghostie any white sheet with or without eyes floating in the air..
kelpie any sea or fresh water beastie with big teeth to gobble you up with i.e nessie.
Sod the brandy, I'm going to have a whisky. All ready for tomorrow night lostthought? We here in southern Spain have managed to catch a Haggis and we're going for it in style. And I'm from Somerset!
Oh my gawd ... is it Third Degree Burns Night again already?
Actually the OP is a serious question. Are rational people like us susceptible to irrational fears? I know that I wouldn't like to spend a night alone in Borley Rectory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borley_Rectory
[quote=chaggle;52634 We here in southern Spain have managed to catch a Haggis and we're going for it in style. And I'm from Somerset![/quote]
The wild ones are getting rarer, even in Scotland. I'm having to make do with the farmed sort.
As usual I will be working but I have my fave peom which I will be reading to my lonesome self, Ahhh. shame.
To A Mouse.
Wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an chase thee,
Wi murdering pattle!
I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion.
An fellow mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve:
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma request;
I'll get a blessin wi the lave,
An never miss't!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
Its silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An naething, now, to big a new ane,
O foggage green!
An bleak December's win's ensuin.
Baith snell an keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an waste,
An weary winter comin fast.
An cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro thy cell.
That wee bit heap o leaves an stibble,
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble.
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley,
An lea'e us nought but grief an pain,
For promis'd joy!
Still thou art blest, compar'd wi me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An forward, tho I canna see,
I guess an fear!
Ah that was great, but I think you would like "Tam o' Shanter".
If you ask nice I'll post it up for you.
http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets...oly_willie.htm
Holy Willie's Prayer is my favourite.Mind you, I'm prejudiced, as it's the only one I've been asked to recite at a Burns Supper.
Now, must dash. There's a brace of fresh-caught wild haggis marinating in the cooking whisky...
I like gravy (Bisto instant will do) with my haggis, neaps and tatties as I find it all a bit dry otherwise.
lost thought - the whole bloody thing must be a typo!!!
I tried haggis once. The sooner they are made an endangered species so nobody hunts and eats them any more, the better, I say!
Keep huntin' and eatin': that'll endanger 'em.I tried haggis once. The sooner they are made an endangered species so nobody hunts and eats them any more, the better, I say!
I believe in ghosts, but I don't have a problem with spooky places.
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