Quick Trip Tae Edinbra...

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loads o' charmin' wee paintin's like this yin

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oiny yin got the time fur a pint?

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it is named the Sheep Heid because
James VI gave a gift o' a Sheep Heid Snuff Box tae this pub...
(before he went tae England and became James I)

this is a 19th century replica o' the snuff box...

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many years ago as a young lad

I saw a telly program that talked aboot Sean Connery and his brither Neil...

they interviewed Neil i' his local pub.. where he occasionally

got intae scrapes and played skittles in a secret back room...

it wuz no until twa years ago that I discovered the pub wuz the Sheep Heid!

noo... guess what is behind this secret door?

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that's richt!

the skittle alley!

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noo... I must admit it is a bit disappointin'

that they arr nay langer usin' traditional skittle pins and

have noo opted fur modern 10 pin bowlin pins...

an maist o' the bowls arr modern... (similair tae 10 pin bowlin' bowls withoot holes)

there were ainly a few smaller old style bowls...

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but it wuz still thrillin' tae stand in the same alley that James VI played skittles!

and thoosans o' othe folk hae played tae...

this piccie is frae 1938...

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wuidnae it bae brilliant

tae book it fur a kiltie nicht oot!!!?

ainly £40 fur the evenin'!

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I had a nice pint afore Em an I heided back tae Dumfries...

but I certainly intend tae come back!

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around 250 malt?
How do you have time to sample all that?

MrBill

practice, practice, practice....