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From: joyce cochrane <>
Subject: [Scot] Crossing the Clyde etc.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:41:24 +0100 (BST)

Dave
I'm glad your're about again
I have a head full of memories of the Clyde and Dunoon. It was such a magic childhood. Running wild and free, not like the poor wee souls now. They aren't even safe in their own homes, what with perverts using chatrooms etc.
To get back to the Clyde, I can remember when I was very small, not long after the war. we had an aircraft carrier moored over near the Cloch lighthouse. It was sooo big, that even though it was nearly at the other side of the water, you would have thought you could just reach out and touch it. It was a source of great fascination to me and as soon as I came home from school I was straight doun to the end of our road to see if it was still there.. I think it was HMS Vanguard. Maybe someone else will remember.
I have another funny wee memory. This time about Glasgow not long before I got married in the early sixties. Does anyone remember Ian Cuthbertson, the Actor? He was a huge big man about 6foot 4inches tall. He used to do a lot of Shakespeare but a lot of comedy too. He starred in a series "Budgie" with Adam Faith as i recall.Well he was in rep in the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and he lodged with a Mrs Jaap who was a neighbour of my friend Fiona.We used to meet him in the "close" sometimes and he always stopped for a chat. Very civil big fella. When he was going in or out of his digs he always used to greet his landlady like this. " Well, how's your china Mrs Jaap"and the two of them woud share a laugh. I saw this name Jaap tonight on one of the other lists and it has started off a train of thought.
Ian used to give us tickets for the Citizens and I remember him in King Lear. Magnificent.. the role could have been created for him.
We were alsoin the theatre club years later and for 3/6 you could get a seat in the "gods". Boy was it high up.!1 And the seats were just benches really, but many a good show or play we sat through and didn't notice the splinters in our bums.
We also used to go to the "Kings" in Glasgow.Rikki Fulton sometimes played there. And some of the older comics, Chic Murray was my favourite. Many a night we came out with soresides from laughing so much. Jessie as you might say--- Them were the days.
Joyce
In rural County Down where our outside thermometer read 82. This is almost unknown but delightful just the same. I couldn't really tolerate it all the year round though as I am one of these Celtic types with the skin type that shows the veins through. I think I would probably look as if I had been "spit-roasted" if I sat out for any length of time.So I just sat in the shade which was exceedingly warm and finished off Harry Potter. My daughter (37) fought with her sister(24) for the next shot of the book. I think we all suffer from arrested development.

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