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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Pretty confident I’ve got this one!
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Me too , Jake.
It looks like Munguin is touring famous Pictish places this year.😉
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🙂
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so easy 😆😆it was him at the bottom of 10 Drowning street playing
D ream
it can only get better ( but not for the snp) 😢
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I don;t think it will get better for the SNP or Alba. I don’t think it will get better for Sunk.
I reckon the Liberals may pick up a few seats and be their usual useless selves.
I doubt that Reform lot will get any seats.
The lot that call themselves Labour (“the working man’s party” …titter) will do well.
But I doubt the people will do well.
It’s a relief that Elphic will not be standing.
I just heard that the charmless Dame Andrea Loathsome, has asked if she can put in a vote of no confidence in the prime minister now that an election has been called. Silly old bat… she’s a minister!
You’d think, given the sh*t show we live in, that things could only get better, but seriously… I don’t think they will.
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great retro song 😃😃
disappointment/ betrayal/ later or maybe sooner
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Did Labour have his permission to use the song in 1997?
I’d suggest the Death March from Saul this time…
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Did Labour have his permission to use the song in 1997?
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If you look carefully in the DReam video you can see Professor Brian Cox, physicist, playing keyboards in his younger days. What is it with physicists and music? Dr Sir Brian May of Queen has a Phd in Astrophysics. Indeed what is it with musical physicists called Brian?
Anyway welcome back Munguin, I’ve no idea where you were, but it looks pretty. Everybody but DonDon knew where PP was!!!
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LOL…
Does anyone know a physicist who is not called Brian?
We weren’t there… although we have a couple of “Where’s Munguin?” from where we were, for next week maybe.
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Where’s Munguin? – Oootnaboot. Nae idea 🤔
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He likes to get Oootnaboot. He just orders a car to be brought round…
You know what they are like.
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******i** It used to have a railway station a little way from the village.
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**r***i*t but that’s not narrowing it down much after Dr Beeching’s era, is it Marcia?😞
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Nope, despite the clues I’m no nearer to guessing it. But if it’s a Pictish site, I’ll probably recognize the name when I hear it . . .
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Pictish and Scottish – well, Alba-ish. In at the start, so to speak.
Oh, and prehistoric too. A busy wee place until the modern period. Obviously an important place in the “wrong” history…😕
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Hi, Auld Touns. If it doesn’t start with a D and end two syllables later with an N, I’m still lost.
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You are lost, DonDon.
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It is pre-Beeching, 1956.
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Hmmm… A timely reminder that line closures happened all the time when profits didn’t match investors’ expectations prior to nationalisation, and that Dr B was the heavyweight at the end of a process of decline.
Other places seemed able to recognise the social need to keep public transport links (especially rail links) open a bit better than us in the good ol’ UK.
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Forteviot station was on the main line from Perth to Glasgow Buchanan Street one of the many wayside stations that were closed in 1956. The station building is still standing, now in private use but the platforms were removed decades ago. In the final year of service it was served by four local stopping trains each way Monday to Friday at irregular times that called at all the small wayside stations. Closing the wayside stations enabled the Glasqow – Aberdeen services to be speeded up.
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Monday to Saturday.
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So, auldmarcia, on the various occasions when I have travelled north by train from Stirling, I must have passes through Forteviot? I shall keep an eye open for it if I go that way again. Is it south or north of Bridge of Earn? Thanks!
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It is south of Hilton Junction where the line to Bridge of Earn diverges.
https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/F/Forteviot/
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Incredibly cruel to the people who needed the trains.
Up north most of the stations are still open, but of course, they don;t need to worry about intercity trains needing to go faster, up there.
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A lot of the stations on the far north line closed in 1960.
You can see the ones closed in this film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhGPU321f4
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Thanks, Marcia. That was brilliant.
A lot are now request stops.
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I actually thought it was Aberdalgie rather than Fothair Tabhaicht to give Forteviot its older name.
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Is that a Gaelic name, Sm00ist?
It looks lovely too.
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Yes. That’s the Gaelic name. Fothair is quite common in placenames and is usually anglicised as Fetter-, as in Fettercairn, Fetteresso and so on.
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Ah thanks. To my shame I speak no Gaelic.
I really wish I did.
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Ah thanks. To my shame I speak no Gaelic.
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Another nope, no idea from me.
PP, I know a few physicists, including my daughter, you’re right they are musical to varying degrees. It could be the musical brain that lends itself to study the less than material. Certainly the solid musicians I know are all a bit unworldly.
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Mathematicians too, Alan. I’ve found.
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My daughter, physics and maths.
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🙂 yep. Math, physics and music seem to go together
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Forteviot
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Well done, Andi, although I think a lot of people knew. 🙂
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I know lots of people knew, Tris, I just wanted to see what the name looked like without all the asterisks 😀
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🙂
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Pics like No 4 makes it to easy,
right click on it, then select, search image with google,
location found in 5 secs.
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Ach but that’s nae fun 🤪
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aye you’re right,
it was just a thought on putting prominent buildings on the where’s Munguin posts.
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I see what you are saying, but, if you don’t put in something recognisable, no one would ever get it and it would boring real quick.
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never boring Tris, I liked the aerial where’s Dave ones, where there was only mibbies a loch and a hill or twa.
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Yes, point taken, Alex.
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