The Random thought thread

[facthunter]

 A lot of people lived in cold unpleasant places to escape from attackers. Nev.

[onetrack]

As in the highlands of Scotland?? That's where my ancestors came from - I couldn't live there, and I can't imagine what it must have been like living there, especially in the Middle Ages.

[facthunter]

They don't tell you about the Midges  either. Do you have a Clan Name?  Nev

[onetrack]

Nev, my ancestors on my mothers side were the McLeans and the McKenzies. They came from Ballachulish ("Balla-hoolish") in the highlands, alongside Loch Leven, and not far from Glencoe.

My Dad came from Portsmouth. Mum told us whenever her sisters would come home with a boy, her fathers interrogation would go like like this;

 

"I see ye ha' a new man. What's his name?". And if the girl said a surname that wasn't Scottish, her old man would go (in disgust), "Ach!! A Sassenach!!" 😄

 

Unfortunately my mother married a Sassenach, so that didn't meet with his approval, either.