While the postponement of today’s Premiership game against Dundee was inevitable, Brendan Rodgers and the players will be far from happy not participating in a game they prepared for. For the manager, in particular, this of one of the two games he could deploy Marvin Compper before heading to Ibrox a week on Sunday.
Compper signed his Celtic contact in December but it will be March before he wears the hoops for the first time. His experience would be invaluable at Ibrox next week, but on the back of only one game, and that against lower league opposition?
I don’t know the player but without further evidence, I’d stick with Ajer and Simonovic.
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MIT..
wee dug looks braw!! Good choice!!
HH
TC45
C45
This one has a bit of attitude …. maybe should have called him Broonie!
MIT,
Seamus L has attitude written all over it!! \o/!!
HH
TC45
In Memory of the Hunger Strikers of 1981…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LFO2lyIOcgk
HH
Melbourne Mick,
You’re a wee bit ahead of me. I worked for AOC in Pitmedden Rd Dyce in 1984 after moving to Aberdeen when the Nigg work finished on the Conoco TLP. The Beryl B hook was just finished and we were getting guys finishing on it coming into the fab shop there.
Morning bhoys
Looks like I’m stuck home again today as no public transport until at least 10am
HT
Keep posting Bobbys diaries as most have written it is a tradition on CQN
Ron. Bacardi and Estoril bhoy
I’ve never been near an ok rig but I enjoy all the lads chat about it and as for dogs
Hmmmmph
Good morning, friends. No further snow overnight but still a lot on the ground and showing no sign of dissipating anytime soon.
My workplace remains closed (had to get up and phone before setting off) so another day lurking from home ;-)
Tomorrow’s football calendar must be in severe doubt.
ALASDAIR MCLEAN
Yes i’m an auld cant, AOC was my employer then Rosella shephard et al.
Here’s a wee story to keep you all going until the bhoys kick off again.
After a few weeks idle between contracts our next big job was to be the
Beryl B hook up, that is the bottom jacket will be married to the pre
fabricated top modules and we’ve now got an oil rig, simples.
I had been speaking to a couple of welders who were working at RDL
Methil module yard at Celtic park and they told me in confidence ( big.
mistake ) that they were going offshore to weld in the huge steel
structures and that they had placed a few bottles of single malt in between
the H beams, duck taped and painted the same colour as the steel so no
one could see what was hidden there from 50 ft below,… brilliant!
But they for forgot i was going out a few weeks before them to do the hook
up.
Not many jobs i looked forward to, going away from the family for a few
weeks but i must admit as alcohol was not allowed offshore the thought
of a wee nip after my shift was very appealing, so there i went climbing
every bit of steel i could see on top of that rig, trip after trip trying to
find that gold nectar but to no avail.
I’de been wound up, after three trips and covered every bit of steel on top
of that platform… barstewards… on the plus side, i reckon i could enter a
pentathlon with all the muscle i developed climbing.
Eventually the welders arrived pashing themselves at my futile attempts to
find their golden hoard ” C’mon Mick let’s go and we’ll show you where it is ”
Feeccck It was down the way, below the jacket, a small divers module, why
didn’t i think of that?
Fly beggars, but i was happy as Larry whatever that means. 8-))
H.H Mick
A year ago today big Tam left us.
R.I.P. Tommy Gemmell.
Blantyretim
Bobby’s diaries.
Can’t think of any Celtic supporter who doesn’t get a lump in their throat when
they read that prose.
As for the dogs, maybe this will make you smile.
Marrijuanna ( sp ) was rife offshore so Ebberdine polis thought they would make
a big statement and raid the rigs unexpectedly with sniffer dogs.
But the word had got out and any contraband was immediately ditched over the
side,but on they came jumping out of the choppers with the alsations eager to
bite any body with a sniff of it on their clothing.
But alas they where stopped dead in their track when the poor dogs couldn’t walk
on the steel gratings, their paws kept slipping through.
What to do? think on your feet, then we had the ludicrous sight of the polis trying
to carry a huge dog from module to module.
Don’t think i’ve laughed so much since.
Well not until the S.A.S decided they would attack us unexpectedly, what a fup up.
8-))
H.H Mick
JOBO BALDIE on 2ND MARCH 2018 7:09 AM
Ditto with Mrs. LB and me, third day on the trot working from home. I am though taking a half day flexi…well it is Friday…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Mick ?
Lennybhoy our employees will have to work back the 3 days
Bognorbhoy
Big Billy is also 78 today☘️☘️
BT
How is Big Billy?
Does your Dad see much of him?
Hoopy Birthday Billy…
cold cold cold
Philbhoy
My mum has same condition as big Billy so other than games my dad doesn’t get out much I’m afraid, I sit with my mum to let him go to games
HT. keep Bobby’s diaries coming. More power to your elbow.
Good to see the blog pretty much ignore the couple of inquisitioners.
MWD
March 1981
Monday 2nd
Much to the distaste of the Screws we ended the no-wash protest this morning. We moved to ‘B’ wing, which was allegedly clean.
We have shown considerable tolerance today. Men are being searched coming back from the toilet. At one point men were waiting three hours to get out to the toilet, and only four or five got washed, which typifies the eagerness (sic) of the Screws to have us off the no-wash. There is a lot of petty vindictiveness from them.
I saw the doctor and I’m 64 kgs. I’ve no problems.
The priest, Fr John Murphy, was in tonight. We had a short talk. I heard that my mother spoke at a parade in Belfast yesterday and that Marcella cried. It gave me heart. I’m not worried about the numbers of the crowds. I was very annoyed last night when I heard Bishop Daly’s statement (issued on Sunday, condemning the hunger-strike). Again he is applying his double set of moral standards. He seems to forget that the people who murdered those innocent Irishmen on Derry’s Bloody Sunday are still as ever among us; and he knows perhaps better than anyone what has and is taking place in H-Block.
He understands why men are being tortured here — the reason for criminalisation. What makes it so disgusting, I believe, is that he agrees with that underlying reason. Only once has he spoken out, of the beatings and inhumanity that are commonplace in H-Block.
I once read an editorial, in late ’78, following the then Archbishop O Fiaich’s ‘sewer pipes of Calcutta’ statement. It said it was to the everlasting shame of the Irish people that the archbishop had to, and I paraphrase, stir the moral conscience of the people on the H-Block issue. A lot of time has passed since then, a lot of torture, in fact the following year was the worst we experienced.
Now I wonder who will stir the Cardinal’s moral conscience…
Bear witness to both right and wrong, stand up and speak out. But don’t we know that what has to be said is ‘political’, and it’s not that these people don’t want to become involved in politics, it’s simply that their politics are different, that is, British.
My dear friend Tomboy’s father died today. I was terribly annoyed, and it has upset me.
I received several notes from my family and friends. I have only read the one from my mother — it was what I needed. She has regained her fighting spirit — I am happy now.
My old friend Seanna (Walsh, a fellow blanket man) has also written.
I have an idea for a poem, perhaps tomorrow I will try to put it together.
Every time I feel down I think of Armagh, and James Connolly. They can never take those thoughts away from me.
BT
I knew about your Mum and remember her in my prayers!
You sir, are one of the very best!
God bless.
God bless Tommy Gemmell.
Happy Birthday and HH to Big Billy.
HH to T.O.H.G.
HH
HT
Powerful stuff!
Keep it coming and thanks!
UTLR
HAMILTONTIM on 2ND MARCH 2018 8:27 AM
Great work C,
HH
Thank you HAMILTON TIM , keep them coming.
What a wonderful tribute to big Tommy Gemmill from Alex Gordon
on CQN ,what a legend big Tam was, so glad i was lucky enough to see
him and wee Jinky .
H.H Mick
Just started reading a book which seems quite promising. ” Happy.” by Deren Brown.
Anyone on here read it?
JJ
Happy Birthday King Billy and RIP Tommy Gemmell.
Word of The Day (As the SMSM drum up support for “the title race” ….)
Rataplan /ˌrætəˈplæn/
noun
1. a sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
verb (used without object), rataplanned, rataplanning.
2. to produce such a sound
3. The Rainjurs ur cummin’
Word Origin
from French, of imitative origin
KTF
Using the word of the day in a sentence….
I wis goin oot the day …but noo am no..isrataplan?
Good morning from a -3degC north staffs – looking out on the hills which were snow covered yesterday. Overnight strong wind has blown it onto the roads and hedgerows.
Woke up at 6.30 to a cold house – central heating stopped working – had to get boiling kettles to thaw the condenser pipe. Last time it happened was about 5 years ago – poor design.
HT – keep on posting the extracts.
Tommy Gemmell – gone but never forgotten
TIMJIM
The NYC CSC is always a great venue. About 30 minutes to walk up Broadway or 15 minutes on the 1 Train.
NYCCSC
The Parlour, 250 West 86th St
10024 New York, New York
KTF
An addendum to
HAMILTONTIM 827
re “the sewer pipes of Calcutta”
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=33sWKhmPl3UC&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=sewer+pipes+of+calcutta&source=bl&ots=s8xhP8_Whs&sig=utpSKo00qnyrBTuYuwOE6xsU0po&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIucbJqM3ZAhXBalAKHbeXDcIQ6AEwCXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=sewer%20pipes%20of%20calcutta&f=false
As an aside,to the couple of posts last night who questioned relevance,it’s about respect.
And then some.
Bognorbhoy @9:14
That could have extracted a groan but it actually created a smile :-). See ?
JJ
Worst shift in memory last night. Ten hours for an easy five-hour shift.
And only paid for eight!
Two hours instead of 35 minutes to get to Oxford,and it went downhill from there.
Thank God for snow shoes for the tyres. I had to use them eight bliddy times to get out of drifts.
Not once did I see a gritter. Nor a police car,come to that.
Today’s pub sesh is cancelled,so it’s Plan B. Raid the cellar!!!
Seems a wee bit quiet, so what about the S.A.S attack on our rig?
I suppose it was logical to think that we might have a terrorist attack
on any oil rig, but apart from blowing it up and costing the U.K. a few
quid i couldn’t think why that would be top priority.
Anyway i was told confidentially ( there’s that word again ) that it
would happen and not to say a word to the workforce, obviously they
didn’t understand the mentality of the Ebberdeen fishermen.
” Get on the feckin ground ” he ordered the rigger after a blistering
surf across the North sea waves on a zodiac and a monumental climb
up the platform legs and all completed with full body armour and an
assault rifle.
Fit ?
Get on the feckin ground,( in a very pronounced English accent )
Fit are ye sayin min?
Get on the feckin ground or i’ll shoot you.
Ye better see ma foremin it’s nearly teabreak and av goat tae get this
pipe erected afore a go.
Commanding officer appears, o.k forget here, lets try another module.
H.H Mick
VFR
Rataplan?
Naw,ya choob-ye’ll huv 31003 on here in a minute,gaun Rat-atat-atat.
Yer telt. Think these through!!!
BMCUW
Not a job I would fancy in these conditions.
Why do you only get paid for eight hours? Is it the same if the reverse occurs? ie work six but get paid for eight?
JJ
BOGNORBHOY on 2ND MARCH 2018 9:14 AM
I agree with JJ; it made me smile!
KTF
It’s a great day for the ironing
It’s a great day to press
Glen Daly CSC