Me in my kilt chatting with Billy Connolly

**Monklander** · 13th February 13, 07:17 AM

This shot was taken with me in my kilt at the Fredericton Highland Games with Billy Connolly, a friend from way back in the teenage years. We were reminiscing about the Glasgow Folk Center, partying and the times we drank together on Saturday afternoons singing folk songs at the Scotia. Glasgow’s oldest Pub on Stockwell St.

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**plaid preacher** · 13th February 13, 08:06 AM

Stephen, was that when he was in Canada shooting his series through the Northwest Passage. I loved his reflections on "our home and native land."

**Monklander** · 13th February 13, 08:52 AM

I believe so he went from here to Nova Scotia.

**guardsman** · 14th February 13, 12:27 PM

You and the big yin, respect.

**creagdhubh** · 14th February 13, 02:10 PM

What a neat photo of you and the Big Yin! That was a great series by the way.

Well done!

**TheOfficialBren** · 14th February 13, 02:14 PM

I freaking love Billy Connolly's work! His standup, his films, and his documentaries are absolutely a joy to watch.

He has a bit in his standup show poking fun of the fact that he always dies in his films. He says something along the lines of, "don't miss the first twenty minutes or you'll miss my part. They always kill me off in the first part of the movie." Except in "Mrs Brown."

**McElmurry** · 15th February 13, 10:49 AM

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**muirkirkca** · 15th February 13, 11:54 AM

Go see Billy in the movie Quartet. He does a great job in an enjoyable movie

**Shedlock2000** · 23rd February 13, 05:49 PM

SOOOOOOOOO unbelievably jealous!!!!!

I have always wanted to speak with him, he's one of the '10 friends at the dinner table' victims for a hypothetical supper.......

**Monklander** · 24th February 13, 05:25 AM

Indeed he would be a good one at the dinner table, still very much the same manner about him (all be it tea total now) as when we lived in Scotland. He now lives most of the time in NY and make a trip each year in late in late Aug to Aberdeenshire where, as Laird of the Manner, he tours the Highland games in the village that he bought and where he has his castle (bit of a change from a council flat in Anderson) he loves the highland games. If you like his patter (as they say in Glasgow) look at the skit Robin Williams did on the game of golf, Connolly gave him some of the concept ideas, they are great friends.