Quote from: PeterGrant on September 01, 2020, 08:43:59 pm

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Quote from: PeterGrant on September 01, 2020, 08:34:45 pm

Quote from: Hardliner on September 01, 2020, 08:25:29 pm

Quote from: PeterGrant on September 01, 2020, 08:18:29 pm

Similar. I’m not bothered if I have to wear a mask or can’t go into other people’s houses. Here in Nationalists East Ayrshire the number of cases is really low and I live rurally which makes it even lower.

As long as:

My kids can go to school and nursery
I can work from home
More people aren’t dying

I’m really not bothered.

Didn't realise you lived in East Ayrshire Pete, where I was raised.  Do you like it?

Some areas don't take too kindly to your sort!

Yep, I moved to this SNP voting area almost 5 years ago. We are in the countryside, about 5 miles from Galston.

Have found the area to be pretty much neutral, even Kilmarnock. I go to Auchinleck and Cumnock a lot. There’s a lot of great things about EA. We spend a lot of time at Dumfries House for example. Whereabouts were you?

I grew up in Stewarton.  I liked growing up there to be honest and it was so handy for both Killie and Glasgow by train or bus.

I lived in Stewarton for 9 months while I was building my house. Great wee town and very handy train station. Used to take my son to the coffee pot as a toddler for pancakes on a Saturday morning. It was a hovel but utterly charming. And then it got done up.

Stewarton I did find was a bit of a Bun hotspot. I put that down to its proximity to the likes of Kilwinning. North Ayrshire is really that last outpost of traditional Bunnite culture.

I remember the coffee pot well!  I used to work in the Co-Op just a few doors along from it.

It was always full of Prods when I grew up (although my best mate was actually a William Hague -tragically died of cancer a few years ago), with a slowly rising RC population as was the case everywhere for such a long time.

The Chapel has just shut down recently I heard, with the building having been bought over by the 'Brethren' denomination.

Aye, it was never once open when I lived there in 2015, and I used to drive up to Kilwinning for Mass. I don’t go anymore, actually gave it up around that time after attending for 35 years.

It was around the time of the Cardinal O’Brien scandal and instead of the priests showing a bit of humility at the time they were doubling down and telling us all on a Sunday morning how it was we who were lacking. It was quite an effort to get out on a Sunday morning with an 18 month old and I got really angry at these guys having the cheek to lecture me after I had made the effort.

I do believe in it on some level still but I lost interest in the organised religion aspect. They actually put me off which isn’t what they are supposed to be doing.