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Comment on The Survival Game by Colin Kapp by jackdeighton

jackdeighton — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:09:41 +0000

Thanks, Paul.
I probably won’t go back to more Kapp, though.
Eric Frank Russell? Oh dear. Won’t Next of Kin stand up to a re-read? I remember finding it very funny at the time but I’ll admit he was never one for much characterisation.

Comment on The Survival Game by Colin Kapp by Paul Fraser

Paul Fraser — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:51:29 +0000

I got this as as I was a member of the SFBC at the time. Didn’t think much of it then (77 or 78?) and I’d enjoyed the first part of The Chaos Weapon in Vortex, a SF mag of the time (subsequently got the entire novel but, IIRC, it didn’t hold up over its entire length).
Think there is better stuff you could probably still go back to: some of his shorter work was quite good including the Unorthodox Engineer series and some of the later NWISF stories.
Maybe he is just one of those writers you can’t go back to (Eric Frank Russell. Anyone) after reading 30 odd years of subsequent SF and mainstream fiction. Quite hard to cut from, say, Birdsong or Atonement to that.

Comment on Trains and Boats and …… Poems? by jackdeighton

jackdeighton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:20:55 +0000

Hi Gayle,
Thanks for commenting.
As far as leevin’ is concerned you’re more likely to be right than me. Eleven made sense to me, but so does living. I’m from the West too, but a bit further up, and my local speech wasn’t as broad as Fife’s, I would say.

Comment on Trains and Boats and …… Poems? by Gayle Gilmour

Gayle Gilmour — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:49:37 +0000

Hi, love this poem, I remember my Mum reciting it at a church concert. I am Ayrshire born and bred and we still use a very similar language to that written in the poem although it’s West Coast. The raw is indeed a row. I wasn’t so sure about the translation of the word “leevin”. I would have translated it as living. Eleven is usually pronounced aleeven. Lovely to see it online. Thank you.

Comment on Kirkcaldy’s Art Deco Heritage 2. The Fire Station. by The Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton

The Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:06:37 +0000

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Comment on Kirkcaldy War Memorial by jackdeighton

jackdeighton — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:25:27 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Jane.
I agree. There seems to be a renewed awareness now among younger people of those who died.

Comment on Kirkcaldy War Memorial by jane mckellar

jane mckellar — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:16:09 +0000

I love this place and there is no disrespect from young people. Quite the opposite.

Comment on Newburgh, Fife by jackdeighton

jackdeighton — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:22:24 +0000

I have never lived in Newburgh so cannot comment on that except; is “ignorant dolts” possibly going a wee bit too far?

Comment on Newburgh, Fife by Jock Ferguson

Jock Ferguson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:37:59 +0000

Totally unmerited attack by Mr.Moncrieff. I have no idea who he is but having lived in Newburgh for three years, that is pretty much the mindset of the locals and unless you are related to most of the people in their miserable village, hostility will be your way of being treated. What a horrible wee place it is. Good riddance you backward dolts.

Comment on Reelin’ In The Years 30: The Six Teens by Not Friday On My Mind 14: Anyway That You Want Me – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton

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