Angel eyes Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Banned now as child exploitation, really😏 summer time we the berries, no for me hot, sweaty… flies everywhere yuk give me a dry cold day in October and a decent picking partner happy days……kids don’t know what their missing…… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gorgie Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 PlayStation 5 sounds much better tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Made good money as a 14yr old howkin tatties in the 70s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Sir Craig Gordon said: PlayStation 5 sounds much better tbh. Depends what a couple of hundred thousand years of human evolution deems most beneficial, I suppose. Instant gratifiaction in the comfort of your own home for little physical outlay v's a grudged appreciation of the benefits of labour in conditions of mild adversity to the benefit of the species in general. Don't get me wrong. Replace 'PlayStation 5' with 'handful of eccies' and I'm the proverbial Tramp with the discarded kebab. Edited August 6, 2022 by Dirk McClaymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weakened Offender Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 I used to work with a strange guy from Rosewell who woukd take his two weeks annual leave to go tattie picking for cash in hand pay. Worked with another lad from Mayfield who, twice a year would take annual leave and sign himself in for medical tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Cockade Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 My Uncle used to have a market garden at Pathhead Used to pick strawberries and raspberries every summer back in the 70’s you didn’t get paid much doing it that’s for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 We need more chimney sweeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor FinnBarr Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Morgan said: We need more chimney sweeps. Bit pointless nowadays unless they rent themselves out for weddings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Was down the mines when i was 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks said no Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Pap said: Was down the mines when i was 14. Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.' But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 10 minutes ago, Shanks said no said: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.' But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. You had it much easier than me, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 There certainly was a hell of a lot of poverty a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Spent a summer up in Aberfeldy grouse beating. That's as close as I ever came to the thread title and not really that close. Was a fun two weeks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Fredrickson Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 While at school I did the tatties one October week. It was during the miners strike and my dad had just retired. I made what was to me a small fortune (about £12 a day in 1984) and I thought that would set me up for life. Downside was that I was in pain all over and struggled to play football for my boys club the following weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Seymour M Hersh said: Spent a summer up in Aberfeldy grouse beating. That's as close as I ever came to the thread title and not really that close. Was a fun two weeks though. Yip did the beatings in my early teens back in the 70's, it was something like £3 a day, a fortune to a 14 yr old, hard work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankblack Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) Used to go berry picking with the family growing up, but the prices to pick your own just aren't worth it. A certain place on the outskirts of Edinburgh charges twice the price to pick your own than of pre-picked Strawberries in Lidl! (like for like weight) Edited August 7, 2022 by frankblack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 The sort of character building graft a lot of these little arseholes need these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnrazor Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 5 hours ago, Seymour M Hersh said: Spent a summer up in Aberfeldy grouse beating. That's as close as I ever came to the thread title and not really that close. Was a fun two weeks though. My son and a few of his mates are hoping to go up to an estate in the Angus Glens next year for a seasons Grouse beating, £65 a day + full bed and board. It should be a great experience for them, earn a few quid, make some new mates, a bit of character building and a reference for a job application in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Rhubarb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruyff Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 14 hours ago, Morgan said: We need more chimney sweeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Dawnrazor said: My son and a few of his mates are hoping to go up to an estate in the Angus Glens next year for a seasons Grouse beating, £65 a day + full bed and board. It should be a great experience for them, earn a few quid, make some new mates, a bit of character building and a reference for a job application in future. If they can handle the midges they'll have a blast. Not bad pay. A big change from my time as I think I was on the same sort of money as Jambo-Jimbo . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Seymour M Hersh said: If they can handle the midges they'll have a blast. Not bad pay. A big change from my time as I think I was on the same sort of money as Jambo-Jimbo . £3 was a lot of money in 1974-75 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnrazor Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 5 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said: £3 was a lot of money in 1974-75 The first time I went beating it was 3 quid and a fiver if you had a dog, about 1981. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Dawnrazor said: The first time I went beating it was 3 quid and a fiver if you had a dog, about 1981. Bring your own dog, no chance of that happening on the beatings I went to. The only dogs allowed would have been whatever lord, lady or Colonel's dogs or the gamekeepers dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gentleman Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Tattie howkin's the hardest work I've ever done, and I was only 12/13 when I did it. Always during the autumn school holidays which, I believe, were historically scheduled to align with the tattie picking season. Made just enough over the week to afford a box of Brock's fireworks for the upcoming bonfire night. It would've been around 10/- for a week's hard labour. The fermers were mean gits tae. You'd ask, "can I take some tatties hame"? He'd reply, "aye, but only jist a wee bilin' (wee boiling)". They never wised up to our two-tag team act mind. We'd 'select' a 'picking neebor' - usually a mate. While the fermer was concentrating on US not nicking HIS precious tatties, our 'neebor' would sneak into the barns and nick his eggs. Eggs were a lot more valuable than a 'wee bilin' of tatties. That's Karma for you, right there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gentleman Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 07/08/2022 at 20:42, Dawnrazor said: My son and a few of his mates are hoping to go up to an estate in the Angus Glens next year for a seasons Grouse beating, £65 a day + full bed and board. It should be a great experience for them, earn a few quid, make some new mates, a bit of character building and a reference for a job application in future. What have the grouse done to deserve a beating? Aye, awwright, off to the crap jokes thread for me...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnrazor Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 2 hours ago, John Gentleman said: What have the grouse done to deserve a beating? Aye, awwright, off to the crap jokes thread for me...... I'll give you 8 / 10 for the effort 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All roads lead to Gorgie Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Someone could make a fortune picking chips and lighters off the pitch at Easter Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Christ, no way I could do that now. My back and legs would be in bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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