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This is right on my doorstep

http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/

Hmmmm .... why has my face turned this weird shade of green?

im buying my house, never thought Donald Trump would make me rich annabelle, just shows you never know whats round the next corner

It is a pretty golfcourse. I guess when you have moola, you can spend it everywhere. Even annoying people like Trump.

He is one person I would like to have sit in my classroom all day long, and find out what life is really like........................................then I could tell him to be quite when he opened his mouth and give him detention.

Is your house on this land ?

chonsigirl wrote: It is a pretty golfcourse. I guess when you have moola, you can spend it everywhere. Even annoying people like Trump.



He is one person I would like to have sit in my classroom all day long, and find out what life is really like........................................then I could tell him to be quite when he opened his mouth and give him detention.




Sassy bunny !:wah:

do you play golf nomad, i could lease you my house for a couple of weeks :sneaky:

Nomad wrote: Is your house on this land ?


no, the land is a privately owned estate, im just lucky enough to be right next to it

diuretic - your safe enough, edinburgh is quite a distance from it

buttercup wrote: do you play golf nomad, i could lease you my house for a couple of weeks :sneaky:




What I do might not be classified as in the "golf" family. More along the the lines of croquet or there might not even be a classification for what I do. At any rate (((DUCK)))

Good lord he will put up a awful tower and a casino and have ugly flashing lights everywhere... Just not how I picture Scotland at all.

Hurry Buttercup get a stray sheep to Poop on his shoes ...

:-6

randall here,

I tried to have a "fight" with the BBC over "One of their GUEST NEWSPAPER READERS" ex editor of something or other - probably "News of The World."

I was really incensed at his description of the north east of Scotland. Like Michael Winner he probably thinks that everything north of the Watford Gap should be concreted in. "Everything ANYONE WANTS can be found in London."

He dismally commented on the selection of the area near Balmedie for a golf course - "Of all the places in the world...etc." "It will probably have to closed six months of the year because of the weather." He just went on and on

I, for one - a non golfer - have never heard of a golf course having to be closed for anything except reconstruction.

Also, almost every village in the area has at least one golf course (Not kidding)

Just north of the site he has chosen was - and is - the famous Cruden Bay Golf. Course/s.

As a child I remember the huge hotel built expressly;y for the golfers and serviced by a narrow gauge railway from Dyce through Ellon and onto Cruden Bay and Boddam where it ended.

The clients in those airy fairy days before World War two were the rich and famous from all over the wold - in the Astor, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller league.

They anchored their steam yachts in the lovely bay along whose edge the golf course runs.

The hotel was built - I believe - by the Great Northern Railway - and during the war it was used as a convalescence home for wounded and sick military officers.

Typical of the area, soon after the war the railway was ripped up and the hotel demolished.

A few miles to the north of the hotel still stand the ruins of "Slain Castle" often visited by Bram Stocker who spent many, many holidays in Port Errol/Cruden Bay .

He used it as a model for his "Dracula's" castle in his novels. The locals held him in awe as he tramped over the sand dunes and cliff tops wearing a cloak in all sorts of weather.

It is so steeped in ancient folklore that one local minister who claimed it was one of the last strongholds of "Paganism" that it was a cesspit of evil. "Steeped in wicked and evil practises.

The castle belonged to Hay Clan who were the Errol's of Scotland but could not afford to continue to pay the taxes for it and removed the roof and once a building has had it roof removed it falls rapidly into a irreparable ruin.

Many beautiful buildings were lost in the length and breadth of this country (Britain) because of this stupid law. Stones were stolen from it to build Jimmy Sutherland's stables in St Peter Street in Peterhead - now - alas - also demolished to make room fro even more development.

Just the west of th site of Donald Trumps golf course is the Parish of Belhelvie where the minister of that parish invented the modern cartridge for firearms and has been responsible for the millions of deaths.

World Wide!

He was keen on "Fowling" - going out onto the wetlands and sand dunes to shoot ducks and gees and quite literally got fed up with his powder always getting wet and his fowling piece misfiring - but that is another long tale of a fight against the British army which did not want any such new fangled ideas and tried their best to stop him. By fair means and foul - an interesting story in itself.

Obviously they failed.

So it is no far away, forlong, forgotten desolated remote area that Trump wishes to develop. It is also the centre of oil development in the waters surrounding Britain but could do well with a massive inoculation of jobs and finance as the local people have never really reaped the rewards of the so called oil boom.

White settlers steamed up from all over the world and stole it from them because the huge oil companies considered them to be too backward and ignorant to do the jobs they were bringing in.

The BBC in its wisdom told me that because I could not give the eaxt time and date of the programme I heard - even although I did identify the man - they could not trace the programme and make any coment.

We're still being neglected.

God Bless you all.

randall

:)

CARLA wrote: Good lord he will put up a awful tower and a casino and have ugly flashing lights everywhere... Just not how I picture Scotland at all.

Hurry Buttercup get a stray sheep to Poop on his shoes ...


ive seen the plans carla, i think they are included in the link i gave

i dont know much about the man but i'd rather the land used as a golf course than it filled with houses & flats (apartments)

it will boost tourism in the area & bring jobs, not to mention send the price of my property through the roof :sneaky: all in all i find most local people have positive thoughts about it

arnold - i googled a pic of him, i can definately do something with that hair & being the closest salon we can only hope he pops in :p

randall - the news of the world is more a comic than a newspaper, dont concern yourself with anything in it, hugs, buttercup

p.s did you hear about the develoment ideas for slains castle?

:-6

Dear Buttercup,

randall has not heard of the "recent" plans for Slains Castle but in my seventy odd years I am literally fed up of hearing about grand plans for all over the north east of Scotland.

They started with the huge "Arterial Road Network" in the mid 1930's with the plans printed on the front page of the "Press & Journal" (Once voted the most mundane, boring and dull newspaper in Great Britain.)

It started with a flourish and the dual carriageway swept northwards from Aberdeen to stop after a mile or so because, as my cousin so often said, they found a farm house in their way. Just before where B & Q is now situated.

It stayed there for the next thirty years.

Eventually, not so long ago it was stretched, after innumerable bends were straightened out haphazardly, one by one over the years - to eventually reach the Now Aberdeen Satellite Town Of ELLON (Where, according to David Bellamy.) - they promptly overloaded the lovely River Ythan with sewage and nearly destroyed the breeding grounds of millions of birds at the estuary at Newburgh.

I believe, after his film was shown on the TV that this was cured.?

I have long waited for the "cart track" to Peterhead and the north (NoT my words but the words of a "WHITE SETTLER" Captain of an Oil Boat I was on who came up from York to take the job.)

He was at his best, large beer belly and large beer mug in hand at the Dubai Seamens' Club spouting his piece to all who cared to listen to him.

"This," he exclaimed, pointing to the mug of "SMITHS (?) STEAM BEER", "This, is made a couple of mile from my house and yet where he lives," he pointed to me with a jabbing finger, "I cannot even buy the stuff. Nectar of the Gods,"

I was with him out in the Persian Gulf so obviously the "cart track" got him down.

I told him that I was sure he did not receive "cart track" wages for a job which any local fishing skipper could do.

After all "NOW" they have renumbered it the A90 which is a rather grandiose name for a "cart track".

NOW AT LAST that double zig zag on the road at Bridgend is being straightened out after having been surveyed far too many times to be counted.

The last BRIGHT IDEA I heard of Slains Castle was several years ago that BARRATT HOMES (????) was going to include it in a grandiose scheme which would include a theme park - is that still extant?

Would this have included the farm of "Fontainebleau"???

They, Barratts' Homes", (I believe) bought the south bank of the River Ythan at Ellon to build on when any local could have told them that it was a flood plain which floods regularly and has recently had to be reinforced.

It has not been built on.

One thing cannot be said of the Buchan Area is that it is not a swamp of bright ideas most of which never come to fruition - or have I lived too long.

God bless you all.

randall

:)