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1st January 14, 11:04 AM
#1
Great Balls of Fire!
A Hogmanay custom (?) that I wasn't aware of:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pi...?frame=2777468
Don't singe your fringe!
Last edited by Michael Flemming; 1st January 14 at 05:09 PM.
Reason: correct typo
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1st January 14, 11:25 AM
#2
Well, if it is as cold and icy there as here, I could see the advantage of this flaming ball.
Gu dùbhlanach
Coinneach Mac Dhòmhnaill
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1st January 14, 11:56 AM
#3
Wow, that's one way to have a Swingin' New Year's Eve! 
Neat post. Thanks Michael.
Allen Sinclair, FSA Scot
Eastern Region Vice President
North Carolina Commissioner
Clan Sinclair Association (USA)
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1st January 14, 01:02 PM
#4
if I remember someone tried to stop it for health and safety but there was such an uproar it got dropped very quickly
Martin.
AKA - The Scouter in a Kilt.
Proud, but homesick, son of Skye.
Member of the Clan MacLeod Society (Scotland)
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1st January 14, 01:38 PM
#5
More fire ceremonies on the way--the burning clavie in Burghead!
http://www.burghead.com/clavie.html
Clan Mackintosh North America / Clan Chattan Association
Cormack, McIntosh, Gow, Finlayson, Farquar, Waters, Swanson, Ross, Oag, Gilbert, Munro, Turnbough,
McElroy, McCoy, Mackay, Henderson, Ivester, Castles, Copeland, MacQueen, McCumber, Matheson, Burns,
Wilson, Campbell, Bartlett, Munro - a few of the ancestral names, mainly from the North-east of Scotland
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1st January 14, 04:25 PM
#6
 Originally Posted by California Highlander
That's a good one, CH. I took the liberty of viewing your profile, and I recommend you move the Sinclair tartans to the top of your kilt wish list.
Allen Sinclair, FSA Scot
Eastern Region Vice President
North Carolina Commissioner
Clan Sinclair Association (USA)
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1st January 14, 11:20 PM
#7
Way too regulated now... And full of non locals since the press picked up on it.
There used to be no barriers, pretty much the whole town turned out for it, and you'd end up being dragged into the homes of people you didn't even know to first foot (apparently there's a benefit to being a tall dark stranger.)
Tended to be a 6pm ish start on 31st, down to the harbour for the fireballs before midnight then first footing til you eventually got home about 6am... Just in time for breakfast.
Oh how things have changed... Now on the other side of the atlantic and never even watched the tv...
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1st January 14, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Laird_M
if I remember someone tried to stop it for health and safety but there was such an uproar it got dropped very quickly
It's had a few years where it's been difficult to get volunteers to swing the fireballs... I'm sure they'd welcome anyone that's interested.
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2nd January 14, 06:47 AM
#9
Originally Posted by Laird_M
if I remember someone tried to stop it for health and safety but there was such an uproar it got dropped very quickly
I have heard about those people. I understand that they are mandated to take all the joy out of life and squelch traditional culture.
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2nd January 14, 07:43 AM
#10
Originally Posted by Farmer Jones
I have heard about those people. I understand that they are mandated to take all the joy out of life and squelch traditional culture.
They're usually the ones that end a sentence, "....for your own good." hehehehe
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