Compiled by Graham Bathgate
- Apéro
- Intro
- Here’s a Guid Yin!
- Ur ye fu’ ye’?
- Alan (Auln) McDonald’s “Mindin’s”
- Fotties o’ Early Times
- Doc Batty Story
- Fotties o’ James an’ Ithers
- School Years
- Travels Thegither
- University Years
- Ron’s Dong
- Gravediggin’ Summers
- Scottish Lingo Daftness
- Mair Daft Stuff
- Tinribs and the Glue
- Urine in Latin?
- A Pickle o’ the Great Guid Times
- Chesayin’, Pal?
- Christchurch an’ Ither Visits
- Not Going to Other’s Funeral
- Last Wurrdz
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all the people involved and / or mentioned in this tribute to the first 20 years I befriended James and accompanied him on many an escapade and travels, in our gravedigging work and in propping up a fair few bars.
So my recognition of accompanying, sharing and enriching the great times with James goes to the following: Ewen, Lynda, Alan, Tom & Karen, Dennis, Rod, Maggie, John, “Chud”, Billy, Dave, “Old Jim”, Pete, Claire and my parents. We were a motley crew!
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