Should he still be driving at 97?

Very funny Granny23 .
We've got a bookabout bothying, in one place an american tourist asks a Glasgow rough camper "so this is where your Queen lives?" Very grumpy reply "she's not MA Queen, mate."

Don't know Sparkle I was too busy getting out the way! It wasn't a Freelander though, much more expensive

But was it Prince Philip Nonnie ? {grin]

Just want to say that I was walking across the crossing this morning, the light was on red for drivers and someone came round the corner very fast, saw me (don't think he saw the light) and braked so hard he skidded into the middle of the road. People make mistakes.

A second later and I would not be here now!

Gosh Granny I have never heard of this. As paddyann says, we are aw doomed noo. I am off to look for this on YouTube. ?

Oh my Granny 23! what a song ??????????

you have just condemned us to hell and damnation for ever ....lol.I haven't heard that for decades .

Phil the Greek has been a sobriquet for years. This is a Scottish rebel song from just after the coronation, which was very popular in folk clubs then. It is called the Scottish Breakaway and is still available on Youtube

O, Scotland hesna got a King,
And hesna got a Queen,
For ye canny hae the saicint Liz
Whan the first yin's never been.

Chorus:
Nae Liz the Twa, nae Lillibet the Wan,
Nae Liz will ever dae,
We'll mak oor land republican
In a Scottish breakaway.

Her man's cried the Dukey Edinbury,
He's wan o the Kiltied Greeks,
O dinna blaw his Kilts awa,
'Cos Lizzie wears the breeks.

He's a handsome man an he looks like Don Juan,
He's beloved by the weaker sex.
But it disnae really matter a damn,
'Cos it's Lizzie signs the cheques.

Noo her sister Meg's got a bonnie pair o legs,
But she didnae want a Tally or a Greek,
She fancied Peter Townsend but,
They sent him up the creek.

Sae here's tae the Lion, the bonny Rampant Lion,
An a lang streetch tae its paw,
Gie a Hampden Roar, an' we're oot the door:
--An ta-ta, ti Chairlie's maw.

Chorus

Yes, Annie it is their choice, I just wish someone had advised them that they had another option which would do good as well as expressing their sadness. It is a bandwagon I won't join, along with the roadside flowers, just seems such a terrible waste when there are so much better ways to remember people.

Surely it is their choice, I don’t think it is for anyone to say how others choose to spend their money or express their sympathy.

Just to clarify, I don't have any objection to recognising the young footballer, I just think all the money spent on flowers by people who didn't know him and had never seen him play could have been better spent. Same thinking as at funerals when relatives say 'family flowers only' and suggest charitable donations. Something which could live on after him instead of being swept up and thrown away.

PECS I do love your posts

Some aspects of this thread are quite surreal considering Philip has something of a reputation for making very inappropriate racist comments.

Should he have written to the injured passenger in the other vehicle? He will have taken legal advice before doing so and lawyers must have approved that move. I read that one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting had left a message on behalf of the Queen.

The Battenbergs were Austrian/German. They had nice cakes though! Do you think the Kiplings were relate to them and that's how they got the recipe?

He was a prince and he married a princess . His mother was a great granddaughter of Victoria and was born in Windsor Castle, so queenie certaintly marry someone of lower status .

Oh dear, we have always referred to him as Phil the Greek. I've always presumed he would fine it amusing. After all not everybody who is born on a kitchen table on a Greek island gets to marry a queen. With his deaf mother who could lip read several languages I imagine he's quite proud of his background.

It is presumably because she is not the driver that she can do that. The driver will be the one negotiating with her insurance so not speaking.

As long as you do not admit responsibility!
That's is the nub of it and it's not usual to be in contact.

My friend who was involved in a very similar accident was warned not to contact the other driver who was injured, when she wanted to inquire how she was.
As for the woman displaying her letter on the front page of the paper, it has nothing to do with her sex; she made the choice herself. The driver of the car, also a woman, has remained silent.

Sadly paddyann there are some people on GN, & beyond, unable to understand that a dislike of a system or a process as a principle does not automatically include personal dislike of individuals within, or espousing, the system/ process!

The driver of the car remained silent

I rarely answer your nonsense about me being racist about the English....I have NEVER in my entire life said anything that can be considered a slur on ENGLISHNESS.I freely admit I HATE Westminster and that I DESPISE the monarchy and all who sail in it ...However if you read anything I have said it does not run down people because they are ENGLISH .
As I have said here before I have an English SIL and ENGLISH GD ,two Aunts who are English...one Welsh cousins galore who are born and bred south of the border and even FRIENDS who I regualrly see who are ENGLISH .
I thought the cartoon was funny ...Billy Connelly used to call him Phil The Greek in his stage shows and it was funny then .I didn't call him PHIL THE GREEK .I am not racist towards anyone .I wont expect an apology and in fact wouldn't have known about this SLUR on me unless I'd had several msg's from other posters telling me about it .I will not be back on this thread .

It is a decent thing to do..send a letter or card..if a person is injured in an accident that you are invovled in. As long as you do not admit responsibility! The woman did say it was a thoughtful thing for PP to do!
She will have been hounded by press / media and unlike the lovely and wonderful RF, will not have a PR/ comms team to protect and advise her or write statements for her. Unless there is a Max Clifford type on the scene

Why is it always women who get the short straw? In life, in general but especially with something like this.
she talks to the media so she's condemned as naive
I wonder if she were a he.

But I'm glad to see the death of the young footballer is being acknowledged. I thought it was so very sad.