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It's a natural thing. The Bradburys and Kings that can still conjure up, complete, how it is to be a child are the rarities. Most folk leave it behind, and good riddance. Writers need it, I suppose.

Well, now that my little worm of terror has been exposed to the world, it's time for me to head for my pit. Night, Magoo; afternoon, Buttsie.

Hmmm, you could have a point.

It was just obvious to me that crofter was looking for a reaction, and you gave that reaction, whether it was serious or friendly banter.

Wazza reacted to your reaction and this is why I reminded him that crofter seemed to be instigating it. Maybe you two should kiss & make up? !grin!

I went to Larkhall Acadme, made the Bronx look like Disney world. Most of the teachers were scared shitless and rightly so. Kids died in our playground, 90% of the school were headcases it was a recruitment ground for the UDA and the UVF, looking back now how the fik did I get an education out of there.
John Reid is an honest guy,
Phil McC

It is our oil, if we were independent we could easily nationalise it. As for your water well i don't think youd last long sucking northern England dry they may break away from you aswell as i know you both get on so well. And congratulations youve picked the only English inventor you could think of and most of his theories have become obsolete since Einstien (beaten by the Germans again). see if you can match this-

Road Transport Innovations

* A gas powered things (gas mask) : James Gregory (1638-1675)
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) [1]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

Civil Engineering Innovations

Bridges

* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

Canals & Docks

* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

Lighthouses

* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

Power Innovations

* Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
* Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977

Shipbuilding Innovations

* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

Heavy Industry Innovations

* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
* The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
* Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel

Agricultural Innovations

* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

Communication Innovations

* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
* The post office
* The mail-van service
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
* The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) [ debated ]
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
* Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
* Radio (underlying principles) - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

Some Scottish publishing firsts:

* The first book translated from English into a foreign language
* The first edition of the Encyclop?dia Britannica (1768-81)
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
* The first textbook on Newtonian science
* The first colour newspaper advertisement
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

Scientific innovations

* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
* The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
* Seismometer - James David Forbes

Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

* several modern athletics events, notably the shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games events

* Curling
* Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
* Football
* Golf
* Mountaineering
* Shinty

Medical Innovations

* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
* Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)

Household Innovations

* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897){
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
* The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
* Electric clock - Alexander Bain

Weapons Innovations

* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
* The Ghillie suit

Economist Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's ``An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was upblished in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.

Miscellaneous innovations

* Boys' Brigade

* Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

And last but not least

The Bank of England

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