[Scottish Independence]

Nothing wrong with romanticsm..surprised it hasn't played a bigger role.

 

I'm not sure that 'romanticism' is the right word (for 'Scotland is my country' if you catch my drift). But it will play a huge role on the day.

 

Just as it did in 1997 which I remember very well. Scotland looked like Hampden for an international. I've never seen so many saltires, kilts, tartan, thistles etc. The atmosphere was electric.

 

A vid showing bits of semi-independence day, 1st July 1999.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anYHBwOF2cY

 

 

Nice summary AWT.

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[img]http://forumcache.netweather.tv/public/style_emoticons/default/good.gif[/img] nuff said.

[Weather Anorak]

Growing up in the Highlands, I was always into snow obviously. Lots of days off school as at that time, school was a 10 mile bus journey on a wee B road. Also remember my grandad showing me the weather maps in the newspaper and explaining why it was so sunny/hot one particular summer (high pressure etc).

At that time there was no internet, so tracking the weather was just looking at maps in the Herald. No radar watching then unless you worked for the meto.

Interest always remained due to my love for skiing. When the net took off, this opened lots of opportunities for learning more and watching for what might happen. One might argue we have too much info now!

Still find myself forgetting you are 15 sometimes given the very high standard of your reporting; more educated and mature than many of the 'adults' in the model thread. Are you planning on a degree in meteorology?[img]http://forumcache.netweather.tv/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img] If you go for chemisty, give me a call when you graduate; we're always looking for good, objective scientists[img]http://forumcache.netweather.tv/public/style_emoticons/default/good.gif[/img]

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Let me be the first to congratulate you on the quality blog entry. Long live the kilted thread.[img]http://forumcache.netweather.tv/public/style_emoticons/default/good.gif[/img]