We are only two days away from the 9 in a row CQN Open, which again takes place at Aberdour Golf Club in Fife. This year our guest of honour is Lisbon Lion, Willie Wallace. We have already raised over £2000 from a shirt auction and raffle (thank you very much to all who participated) but we have a quick opportunity for you to win a signed Celtic strip in a raffle, ending on Saturday.
Tickets cost £1, if you can afford £1, get involved here. Proceeds go towards 1254125, which is a crucial part of orientating the Celtic Movement in the direction of our founding fathers.
Willie Wallace will be at the Celtic Store, Argyle St, for late night shopping, from 5.30-7.30 pm tomorrow (Thursday) night. Where you can buy a signed copy of his book and have a chat with the man himself. Bring a camera.
Immediately after leaving the Celtic Store tomorrow Willie and Brogan Rogan (and a pile of books) are heading to the Greenock Celtic Supporters’ Club for a CQN Question and Answer evening. Entry costs £2 (all of which is going to our charity causes). DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!!
I know many of you have read Brogan Rogan but if you’ve not seen him and Willie Wallace in action, get along tomorrow, it will be another classic Celtic night. Tickets are available at the door.
Thanks to everyone who helped organise all of these events, more on that later.
Last call today for the special Father’s Day offer for Heart of a Lion. Order TODAY and we’ll include a Father’s Day card, complete with your own message. See the graphic to the right..
You can choose from two cards, see explanation and choices here, one with Tony Watt after scoring against some Spanish lot, the other with Billy McNeill receiving some trophy or other.
Click on the button below, enter the text you would like to appear in the middle of the card, and Tony will post your book off in time for Father’s Day.
For a proper read of CQN Magazine cick here. Use the navigation buttons at the bottom to flick through pages or zoom in.
Order Heart of a Lion with your personalised Father’s Day card here:
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Many happy returns gb64.
Cheers sanna.
Cowiebhoy, you do realise I had to embark on a rigorous training course to look that good in ma onesie. Not everyone carry it off:-)
Happy birthday Ghordybhoy.
Cowie
Be honest how much Celtic regalia you got around that pool?
Manu happy returns to ole Gerrybhoy.
Remember the Celtic onesie doesn’t shrink to fit inferior onesers…
Ghod bless Greenock – the town of my birth! Full of Italians!
My old dad remembers it fondly – it’s… ‘where I learned to fight!’, he tells me!
HH!!
Bobby Murdochs CW
I thank you, for this is a special day. One year ago today a smile came to me and has yet to leave. I have a feeling that the huge grin inspired by the word “liquidation” will remain with me forever.
HH
ACGR
I replied on the old blog but here it is again. I live in Ayr and used to caddy at Troon, Prestwick and the rest. All hotbeds of extreme hunnery. Couldn’t stand it any more. Still like the game though.
Would love a lift to Aberdour to meet some CQNer golfers. Met one in Ayr when he came in to sign his book 2 weeks ago.
HH
G64
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Happy birthday bhoy…
gordybhoy
Happy birthday tae’ yoooooo!!
HH!!
I wonder if we’re waiting for the new Magners top for Balde’s press conference?
Gordybhoy
Many happy returns.
But a onesie for goodness sake???!!! ;-)
gherrybhoy57
I think I may know you!
Do you hail from Motherwell, originally?
Lived in Troon?
Drank in the ‘Lonsdale’?
HH!!
noseybassaCSC
BMCUW
Just about to mail you.
Stand by!
HH!!
Hamiltontim,
Yea of former podium chasing, I have not had a congrats from you on my Triple, nae Quad. come now, I need to feel the love!
HH
Gordybhoy
Many happy returns
enjoy yer onesie !!!!
Hamiltontim, hoi, less of the slagging off of the Celtic onsies. I’ll have you know that I looked resplendent strutting my stuff through Bannockburn on the day of the cup final.
Although, cowiebhoy’s neighbours and the casual dog walkers & sunday morning car washers may have had a different opinion:-)
HT
Phone me before you come to the door to give me a chance to get out of my onesie and into a respectable pair of asda smartprice denims..
Gherrybhoy, I’ve posted asking P67 to pass my details to you. I’ve also spoken to my brother who is travelling from Ayrshire and is happy to provide a lift.
If Paul get my contacts to you email or bell me. If I’ve not heard anything by about 18.00 I’ll set up a Hotmail account and post it here for you to get in touch.
Hail Hail
Good afternoon CQN
Happy Birthday gordybhoy
Hail Hail
MT
Good Afternoon.
Many people allege that it was Mark Twain who suggested that the game of golf was no more than ” A good walk spoiled!”.
However, such reporting is worthy of being classed along with some of the other type of reporting we get in this country, and should therefore be best used for holding one’s fish and chips or consigned to the rubbish bin.
Twain was attributed as the author of the quip in an article in the Saturday Evening Post of August 1948. However, seeing as the great man died in 1910, it is highly unlikely that such a quote from the witty sage would take anything like 38 years to emerge from the shadows.
Instead, the oblique reference to this particular phrase or description can be attributed to the author of a book on that other genteel pastime– Lawn Tennis.
Many Tennis players in the past frowned on the game of golf, and in his early 20th century book on the racquet game, H. S. Scrivener, attributed the saying about golf to a couple of fellow tennis players who he refers to as “The Allens”.
To be precise what he actually says is as follows:
“… my good friends the Allens … one of the best of their many excellent dicta is that “to play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk.”
Since then, the phrase has been attributed to many folk including novelists, commentators and even the odd horse jockey.
In 1924, the Earl of Birkenhead attributed the phrase to no less an oul curmudgeon than William Ewart Gladstone– former Prime Minister of these Islands– saying quite clearly:
“The late Mr. Gladstone was once, much against his wishes, compelled to play golf. He is reported to have commented upon the experiment that it was a good walk spoiled. Such would undoubtedly have been the verdict thirty years ago of any ninety-five per cent of the whole male population of the United States of America.”
Gladstone served as both Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer on four different occasions, and was the fourth son of Sir John Gladstone from Leith, and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.
Of course, Leith can be seen across the River Fourth from the golf course at Aberdour.
Aberdour is in fact a Pictish name and in Gaelic the town is actually called Obar Dobhair — and there is a very obvious set of jokes which follows the gaelic spelling of the name– but I will resist these at least for the moment.
The name Aberdour suggests an origin lying somewhere in the “dark ages” with the -dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ‘water’ (archaic dobur), and is unconnected to the Scots/English ‘dour’.
It is also obviously unconnected to the Glaswegian term ” Dobber” which has another meaning entirely– the etymology of which shall be examined at another time as this is neither the time nor the place.
Apparently, by the mid nineteenth century, the harbour at Aberdour was a popular dropping off point for the steamers from Leith– such steamers being ships as opposed to anything else that might be imagined!
The opening of the Forth Railway bridge brought a different type of Steamer to the village in 1890, and ever since the Village has been host to regular holidaying steamers from all over– including the odd Golfing steamer.
The village has a castle, a harbour, beaches, a main street and a train station which has often won the award of best kept station due to its spectacular floral display.
For many years, Aberdour had a speak your weight machine which was an exciting attraction, however this was eventually removed after Britain turned to the metric system under Edward Heath.
The Village has a shinty team and is twinned with the village of Corte Franca in the north of Italy– about which I know nothing ( as Sergeant Shultz would say ) other than it has an excellent Golf Course with two island greens at holes number 5 and 11.
For the avoidance of doubt, Corte Franca is not in Fife, bit is to be found close to the southern shores of Lake Iseo between Bergamo and Brescia with flights to Bergamo from both Edinburgh and Prestwick International Airports.
One would think that the organisers of the CQN open would recognise the huge cultural benefits of exchanging experiences and customs with Aberdour’s twin village, and that at some point in the future those who play golf from our ranks should actually take on the challenge of those two island greens?
Alas, such organisation has not yet taken place– but we live in hope.
For my part– I play golf regularly– once every ten years or so— but if given the chance of a day under the sun where I could sample fine Italian cuisine, excellent local beer and wine, and of course a glimpse of a fine Italian woman amongst the scenic Brescian countryside—- then I would undoubtedly wait in the splendid clubhouse bar or in a local village tavern while other chase a little white ball around the fields.
Why go all the way to Italy and hack about the bushes for four hours or so……..?
That is just a good walk spoiled……. as someone once said!
Happy Birthday Gordybhoy64
Didn’t the teletubbies wear onesies?
Teuchter
gordybhoy64
12:35 on 12 June, 2013
Afternoon bhoys, it’s my birthday today and my good lady bought me a Celtic onesie, best present ever :-))))
A big happy BURPDAY to you and yours , may your day/ year be what you want it to be…… But a onesie?.
Gb
Hull offer £4m for Hooper, we ask for £7m, we meet at around £5m plus add ons (like they stay in EPL worth another mill).
If not Hull then the same deal will transpire with some other mid-lower table EPL club.
HH
JUST checking in…
K33- correct,i’m not interested where he goes,just get the best deal we can.
Text of the day:
On leaving his post at Kilmarnock Kenny Shiels has found employment at Asda Linwood, within 30 minutes of starting he has complained that the manager at Asda Parkhead gets preferential treatment.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000
13:10 on
12 June, 2013
Good Afternoon.
Many people allege that it was Mark Twain who suggested that the game of golf was no more than ” A good walk spoiled!”.
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Well regardless who said it first they, IMHO, were bang on the mark. Golf is the gaming equivalent of watching paint dry on growing grass ( Please note i do not refer to it as a sport simply cause it ain’t). ;-)
Controversialstatment CSC
Tallybhoy
You’ve got me bang to rights. Looking forward to meeting you soon. HH
ACGR, the Doc family most certainly appreciated the onesie, as did my neighbours, the hard work paid off,
HT, I saw him at 03.30, then 08.30, it works
Che , a big yellow Celtic shamrock t-shirt hanging on back of sunbed at the minute, tomorrow it’s the celtic trunks ( currently on sale in Celtic shop btw), and plenty more to let them know.
Incidentally, that other mob must be deed, not seen any of them :-)
Ha ha, ha ha ( and that’s without a drink)
Golf is a game played by men with small balls.
And Clubs.
I personaly dont care who Hooper is sold to what is important in my eyes is that we get a decent price for him 6 Million would be decent money for a player who can walk away for nothing in 12 months time.It is interesting to see the MSM saying we are interested in bringing in Shay Given on loan now if there is any truth in this does that mean Fraser Forster may be sold ? the reason I say that is as long as we have Forster Given will be a bench warmer and a very expensive bench warmer at that. H.H.
Paul,
Will you be selling tickets at the golf – I don’t trust eBay with my bank details??
P
If we get over £5 million for Hooper plus a sell on clause. Great bit of business.
Cowie your letting the central belt side down, Doc would have had Lilo (x4) towels t shirts shorts and the obligatory beach baw on show.
And then after lunch..
Kenny Sheils is from Magherafelt, ole ancestral home of the O’Brattbakks.
I expect we were the other side of the tracks from ole Motormouth.
gordybhoy64
12:35 on 12 June, 2013
Afternoon bhoys, it’s my birthday today and my good lady bought me a Celtic onesie, best present ever :-))))
Happy Birthday Gordybhoy
What is the wife trying to say????
Cowiebhoy
Got to have the reserved for champions towels on the sunbeds surely?
If we cash in on Forster and Hooper plus what is already in kitty, some serious dough to play with in summer. If JP and the scouts have been busy then i’d expect good business to be done again.
Alex McCarthy of Reading might be worth a punt if Forster leaves. Given on loan i would take.
Think Wanyama will be here another season. Expect to see Kayal leave as well.
Liam Bridcutt if Kayal goes?????