- Memories of olden times that bring a tear to the eye, like sawdust fi a passing Anderson's lorry.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Unusual Ham in McBlain's
McBlain's the Butchers South Street Bo'ness 1975 Lucky Bo'ness lassies queue up ti git thir hands oan slices i this unusual ham it 2p a quarter. Some 34 years later the ham wid be immortalised by an unknown street artist in the muck oan the road sign it Champany Coarnir.
This site wis set up by a group i bored thirtysumhings who grew up thegithir in Bo'ness, a quaint former whaling port and mining town oan the banks i the Michty River Forth windin thru the Glens i Scotland. The site is carefully worded in the Bo'ness dialect - please let us ken (know) if u canny understaun it afore breengin in. Be shair ti look it the comments under each poast - they are usually funnier than the stuff we pit up, and feel free ti poast yir ain!! We especially want ti hear fi aw they local petrochemical 'workers' who dae nuhin bit read this site n watch porn oan the nicht shift, in between turning a couple i valves n takin a fly heid doon.
2 comments:
Aye I mind oh that stuff ma Gran iywiz pit that Ham end in her soup, she made thi best Cock Oh Leeky in the toon. Braw min.
Ah toat Bo'ness lassies preferred tongue?
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