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Bags Thu 14-Jun-12 17:21:12

...the famous Loch Ness Monster, what do you think of when someone says

Scotland

?

yogagran Fri 15-Jun-12 14:07:32

Baxters jam and marmalade. The factory is in the small town where my mum grew up and I always think of her and Fochabers when I see Baxters products smile

CaledoniaC Fri 15-Jun-12 13:15:07

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world except here in Scotland. Friendly, generous natives, neither extremely hot nor extremely cold climate, wonderful scenery - in the Lowlands, the Highlands and the Islands. A choice of languages and dialects. Clever inventors, without whom the present world would be a much poorer place. sunshine smile

karmaperle Fri 15-Jun-12 11:11:16

Lived there for 7 years and all I can remember is rain and feeling constantly cold. Good things were Morning Rolls and Strawberry Tarts

syberia Fri 15-Jun-12 11:02:34

Portpatrick
Glencoe
Rannoch Moor
Oban
Mull
Strathpeffer
Pipers
Hospitality and friendliness

Great holidays and SUNSHINE!! We have always been very lucky with the weather when we go, usually around 12th May, our wedding anniversary.

And I love the mountains and the sea, preferably being able to see both at the same time smile

j04 Fri 15-Jun-12 10:44:51

Oh no! Have I got another Queen to stick up for now! shock

I've always felt sorry for her.

absentgrana Fri 15-Jun-12 10:40:51

In no fixed order:
Beef, raspberries, salmon
Highland clearances
Robert the Bruce and his spider
The very silly Mary Queen of Scots
Heather (and heather honey)
Scottish Chaucerians
Haggis
Whisky and Drambuie
R. Burns
Lots of islands
Smoked fish
Sword dancing, reels and other traditional dances
Lots of engineers and inventors
Sir Walter Scott
Tartan
Kilts
Bagpipes

jeni Fri 15-Jun-12 10:38:25

My late mother who was the most miserable woman I've met!sad

Grannybug Fri 15-Jun-12 09:43:07

Home although I have lived in England since I was eleven and love it.

Gally Fri 15-Jun-12 07:52:49

Arthur's Seat which I can see across the Firth of Forth from my house smile
Alex Salmond and the SNP sad
The Forth Rail Bridge smile
Rain sad
Wind sad
Snow smile
Hot sunny days (yes it does happen sometimes) smile
Berry Bugs and midgies in the summer sad
Lovely friendly people smile
The Edinburgh Festival; smile
Gordon Brown, our so-called MP sad - he appeared from heaven knows where this week to appear at the Leveson Enquiry!
Space and the feelling of freedom smile
Wild, wild scenery smile
Castles - lots of them smile
Haggis smile
Religion sad
Football sad
Rugby smile
Drugs sad
Trams in Edinburgh sad
Dulnain Bridge where we had a holiday house smile
Watching our dog spring through the heather (never mind the ticks!) smile
Walking on 'our beach' smile
And lots lots more ..................smile and sad

GoldenGran Fri 15-Jun-12 07:17:26

My childhood, holidays in Arran with my own children, beautiful scenery never far away, haggis(yum),the eeriness of Glencoe, and the magic of a surprise summers day.

Butternut Fri 15-Jun-12 07:04:06

...and what do you think of when someone says Scotland, B?

AlieOxon Fri 15-Jun-12 06:42:47

A little bungalow by the sea near Gatehouse-of-Fleet where we spent many happy holidays. (and I now know this is the area where some of my ancestors came from!)
Student days in St Andrews.
The Edinburgh Festival when I knew an actor.
A year in Aberdeen before the oil, married with kids.
Dundee, many years ending in divorce.

My family came from Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland - I don't want Britain to change.........

Bags Fri 15-Jun-12 05:48:38

Last I heard, the majority of people living in Scotland want to stay in the UK.

POGS Fri 15-Jun-12 00:10:12

In my youth I was in the T.A. and had some very happy memories of Scotland. Now I am saddened to think Scotland may break away from the Union. I am not being political but seriously upset that things may change as I don't think of Scottish. Welsh or Northern Irish people as not being part of Britain.
I love Scotland for whisky, wonderful landscapes and as I remember it for warmth and people who share the same humour. How has it all gone so wrong!.

Sorry to dampen the image but I am seriously worried where it is all heading,not out of any ill feelings, more out of respect and wanting the union to stay the same.

johanna Thu 14-Jun-12 22:13:45

Bagpipes, bagpipes, bagpipes.
Smoked salmon.
Drambuie. For medicinal purpose only...........smile
For those with a bad chest, it beats Benilyn by a mile!
Cashmere.

Definitely not Gordon Brown.

glassortwo Thu 14-Jun-12 21:58:52

Ahhh number that's lovely!

numberplease Thu 14-Jun-12 21:42:54

Kintyre, and everything and everyone in it, including soop, then there`s another VERY good friend, in Fife, who I think of almost every day.

Ariadne Thu 14-Jun-12 21:28:52

DH of course - looking on the bright side.
A plain loaf
Mountains and lakes
The Argylle and Sutherlands (a posting in Ireland with them)
Pipe music
The Ardnamurchan peninsula
The Forth road bridge (meant we were leaving)

On the other hand:
Scottish nationalism
a long, long, long, grey posting in Fife
rain
rain
wind
rain
COLD
tight lipped relatives of DH's mother

bikergran Thu 14-Jun-12 21:26:16

whooops! sorry....meant a Mcdonalds quarter pounder grin (slip of the tongue) grin

bikergran Thu 14-Jun-12 21:24:38

a Mcdonads kilt and his quarter pounder grin shock

Sook Thu 14-Jun-12 21:19:43

Port Patrick I have had many happy holidays there.

The Mull of Galloway it's breathtakingly beautiful.

Scottish tablet it's delicious.

Lighthouses.

Anne58 Thu 14-Jun-12 20:44:06

I have only been to Scotland once, and it wasn't on holiday. It was many years ago, somewhere (I think) near Pitlochry?

When I have tried to describe my impressions of it, I always end up saying "I know that the sky is just the sky, but it seemed bigger there, and the mountains were just................."

Probably makes no sense, but I know what I mean!

Anagram Thu 14-Jun-12 20:32:29

Thistle?

Hankipanki Thu 14-Jun-12 20:22:00

All the above plus
Ben Nevis summit with clouds beneath my feet
Sea Eagles on Mull
Rannoch Moor
Mary Queen of Scots

Mishap Thu 14-Jun-12 20:10:48

Apologies in advance to Scotland!
What do I think of ...... grey grey grey. rain rain rain, midges midges midges!