tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4215143645226594287..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: An Outbreak of Paganism in CarshaltonNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-7802218996286324402008-09-15T16:37:00.000+01:002008-09-15T16:37:00.000+01:00Malty, I actually saw D.Steele at the Selkirk Comm...Malty, I actually saw D.Steele at the Selkirk Common Riding...clever chap that.Richard Havershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-56362510090757136042008-09-15T09:16:00.000+01:002008-09-15T09:16:00.000+01:00Malty, the Steeple Chase was developed in Ireland ...Malty, the Steeple Chase was developed in Ireland for much the same reason as the riding the Bounds and end up with much the same result. I think what Nige is on about is a bit earlier, same result though.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-30051485762540863052008-09-14T22:46:00.000+01:002008-09-14T22:46:00.000+01:00Yes indeed Richard, Selkirk is the real ancestral ...Yes indeed Richard, Selkirk is the real ancestral home of the Klingons, and David Steel, Holyroods ex chief usherette who took unto himself a very nice pad (Aikwood Tower), a bit odd that for a bloke who never had bugger all.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-32138254110479660882008-09-14T20:45:00.000+01:002008-09-14T20:45:00.000+01:00Malty, When we went to the Selkirk Common Riding a...Malty, When we went to the Selkirk Common Riding a few years back I was truly amazed by the whole affair. It was like we were in a foreign country...<BR/><BR/>The Duns Reiver and event is slightly less exciting but the Saturday ride out, which comes past our house, is very grounding.Richard Havershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-31460618841764978722008-09-14T20:42:00.000+01:002008-09-14T20:42:00.000+01:00My Mother and Father who got married in Carshalton...My Mother and Father who got married in Carshalton Parish Church (All Saints) would be horrified!Richard Havershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-40278844541681395232008-09-14T18:26:00.000+01:002008-09-14T18:26:00.000+01:00Living as we do in the Scottish borders and having...Living as we do in the Scottish borders and having known the area for many years (50). we are by now used to the local wickermannonites or riding of the bounds as the natives call it. There is nothing in Western Europe more tribal than this, involving horsemen and women patrolling their town boundaries, although not stopping at intervals to pee I might add. What the horses do is an entirely different matter. A rollicking good time seems to be had by all, with a "do" in the evening, the horses are not invited.<BR/>Each town picks its own "braw lad" and "braw lass" to lead the riding, Mel Gibson style, some of these are braw indeed ! Outsiders are well advised to stay indoors.<BR/><BR/><BR/>"There's no anybody here called Rowan, sargent"maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-72612577183274989822008-09-14T16:50:00.000+01:002008-09-14T16:50:00.000+01:00i wouldn't say observers of a living tradition nee...i wouldn't say observers of a living tradition need be bored senseless. We used to have regular Bonfires on the castle hill near where i lived in my distant youth: i thought they were great and other people didn't seem bored senseless. Perhaps it's because i'm not from London: Londoners seem perpetually bored or aggressive, with nothing in between...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63314371244683737792008-09-14T15:18:00.000+01:002008-09-14T15:18:00.000+01:00This is a great post, Nige. I do wonder what the m...This is a great post, Nige. I do wonder what the mobile cornstalk and pals were up to -- a protest of global warming maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-78613463939374620102008-09-14T14:57:00.000+01:002008-09-14T14:57:00.000+01:00Back in the days of yore, when I knew Carshalton i...Back in the days of yore, when I knew Carshalton intimately I often thought "wicker man territory"<BR/><BR/>When I say intimately..............<BR/><BR/>Or I would have thought that but for one insignificant detail.. the movie hadn't been made yet.<BR/><BR/>In truth I thought it very posh, after Tyneside even Grozny is posh.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-43084249034492342682008-09-14T12:43:00.000+01:002008-09-14T12:43:00.000+01:00"minding my own business"This doesn't sound like y..."minding my own business"<BR/><BR/>This doesn't sound like you, Nige. Surely you were trailing a moth or giving eye to an errant owl.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.com