Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: Sunstroke in Scotland https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297493#post297493 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297493#post297493 Breathe less...
Je t'aime...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctKineGSP0

actually I think Serge looks a bit like Burke and Hare's victim – 'Daft Jamie'

]]> Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:17:44 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297490#post297490 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297490#post297490 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:05:57 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297489#post297489 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297489#post297489 and got to rename the shore to the north of Auckland Birkenhead.
Hare had gone bald by this time.
aha! The famous littoral receding hare line...

...of course with Sherlock Holmes pursuing them, they knew the game was afoot, and changed again to Birkenstocks, right?

]]> Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:57:17 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297475#post297475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297475#post297475 the grave robbers Burke and Hare

I heard they emigrated to NZ and got to rename the shore to the north of Auckland Birkenhead. Hare had gone bald by this time.

]]> Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:48:12 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297442#post297442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297442#post297442 SAWNY BEAN -had 3 generations of offspring.
I reaslly hate the fact that a lot of the kids were burned-

]]> Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:25:33 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297441#post297441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297441#post297441 Your children will be as-yet too young, but my rather ghoulish young teenager was thrilled by the dungeons. There were re-enactments of various ghastly episodes from Edinburgh's history including Sawney Bean the cannibal, the grave robbers Burke and Hare, and William Wallace, by a troupe of young actors.
Other things…

]]> Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:57:40 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297427#post297427 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297427#post297427 Heh!
The interbreeding in the Orkneys (my Nana, though born here, was definitely Orkney Scots)was via Norwegians & Danes...her maiden name was Matches (possibly Matelaas originally?)

And yeah, first radio interview I did in studio in Edinburgh, the interviewer blurted, "You're South Island Maori but your face is all Scots!"

Ah,…

]]> Sun, 06 Oct 2013 18:17:21 +1300 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297426#post297426 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297426#post297426 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 17:28:30 +1300 Ben Austin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297388#post297388 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297388#post297388 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:38:37 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297358#post297358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297358#post297358 A bit alarming and weird to consider that the – ahem – aggressive emigration policies of Norwegians (in the past), and then the Scottish diaspora, could shape the facial features of people on the other side of the world…

**It also applies to our really bad teeth...
I dont know…

]]> Sat, 05 Oct 2013 01:56:37 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297329#post297329 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297329#post297329 A national emergency declared when temperatures nudge 20C.

Must be where NZ gets it from: Met Office warn of drizzle bomb.

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:22:51 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297327#post297327 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297327#post297327 Scotland’s capital, I decided, was rather like those mousy librarians in the movies. My previous assessments had never looked beyond her hair-bun and spectacles. Under blue sky and sunshine, the city unexpectedly shed its glasses, unleashed a cascade of glamorous movie-star hair, and gave a slow, come-hither smile.

Was Jennifer…

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:16:29 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297317#post297317 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297317#post297317 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:52:08 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297310#post297310 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297310#post297310 Scots on the rocks…
I couldn’t help liking Edinburgh
the pipes, the pipes, are calling…
It seems there is a concerted effort going on to tattoo Edinburgh onto my consciousness – having just finished the late, lamented Iain Banks’ Whit* and started Sergei Lukyanenko’s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Watch| The Last Watch…

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:19:13 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297299#post297299 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297299#post297299 Did you come across The Museum of Childhood?

We've visited it before; slightly disastrous when you take an actual child who wants to play with the exhibits, so avoided it this time. Had visions of my children making the newspapers: "Museum Damaged by Badly-Parented NZers: Curator Vows to Ban Children…

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:34:35 +1300 James Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297298#post297298 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297298#post297298 Excellent timing. We'll be in Edinburgh on Monday, and in need of a good playground!

(Geoff – is the museum of childhood for adults to reminisce, or does it appeal to small people as well?)

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:00:24 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297289#post297289 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297289#post297289 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:47:49 +1300 Ben Austin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297287#post297287 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297287#post297287 I have barely spent any time in Edinburgh, but have spent time in Glasgow. Not quite sure why, but I'm sure the anarchist grandfather would approve all the same.

I suspect it is in part due to teenage over-exposure to Trainspotting and a latent fear of being mugged by for…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:41:08 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297286#post297286 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297286#post297286 The Illusionist , set in Edinburgh, and overflowing with love for the place with its constantly shifting light and rain. Worth a look. :-) ]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:40:08 +1300 Raymond A Francis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297282#post297282 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297282#post297282 Liked Edinburgh even though it pissed down with rain when were there last summer, your post tipped the balance on going back there on a fine day

Glasgow less so, something to do with Great great granddad getting a one way ticket to Australia in 1790 from the Tollbooth which…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:45:44 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297271#post297271 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297271#post297271 Oh, I’d liked it before –
I love Edinburgh!
Some of the best eating in my life has been done there (did you try any of the seafood restaurants?) And – after doing a tour through England- my mother & self
could read body language again…it helps we still have cousin…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:04:38 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297246#post297246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297246#post297246 Soo… you like Edinburgh in hindsight?

Oh, I’d liked it before – always thought it had a bleak, rainswept beauty. But I guess this is my first visit that I’ve noticed how pretty it is.

Also had a couple of very funny posh Edinburgh moments as per Alexander McCall Smith.…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:17:25 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297239#post297239 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297239#post297239 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:49:38 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297235#post297235 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297235#post297235 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:44:02 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297225#post297225 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297225#post297225 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:56:16 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297224#post297224 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-sunstroke-in-scotland/?p=297224#post297224 Discussion from blog post.

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