Scottish Blethers

Episode 5 already, who would have thunk it that 3 Scots wumin could put something like this together and have a great laugh doing it !!  Welcome to Scottish Blethers, or welcome back for those that have listened to previous episodes.

We are 3 freelance tourist guides who decided that instead of sitting at home twiddling our thumbs whilst our guests and stories disappeared into the new Covid-19 world order, that we would get together virtually through our computers and see if we could batter technology into submission and produce something that people might like to listen to.  By episode 5, we reckon that we have started to get on top of technology, learnt more about social media and also how to edit and publish a podcast.  

Topics for this week's Episode 5 include :-

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to let us know what you think of our efforts.  We are also taking requests for topics for future episodes - don't be shy, let us know what you would like to hear us talk about - we have already been asked to talk about specific castles and that will be coming up some time after episode 10 as we have already recorded a few ahead.

We're getting into our stride now and the chat is flowing !  Thanks to everyone who has listened in so far and welcome to new listeners.  We are 3 Scottish tourist guides who get together on a call for a right good blether about a range of topics.

In this week's episode, Helen, Liz and Susan talk about Highland Games, childhood games and Edinburgh-Glasgow rivalry !

Our Scots words of the episode are stooky (Helen spells it with a y on the end, whereas Susan spells it with ie on the end!), shooglie and muckle.

As quick as a flash 30 mins is up and we hopefully leave you wanting to listen to more weekly episodes as they become available.

Through the week we post photos and articles related to the topics on our social media - on facebook and instagram it is @ScottishBlethers and on twitter it is @scottishblether .  Please post any comments you have about the episodes, the photos or your memories of the topics on our social media as we'd love to hear from you.  Liz and Helen have been on a steep learning curve in terms of social media and we all look forward to your input. 

Thanks for coming back for more, or welcome, if you are new to Scottish Blethers !

We are 3 Scottish tourist guides who get together on a call for a right good blether about a range of topics.

In Episode 3 we cover 3 very different topics - 

As always, we finish our episode off with 3 Scots words.  As quick as a flash 30 mins is up and we hopefully leave you wanting to listen to more weekly episodes as they become available.

Welcome or welcome back to Scottish Blethers.  We are excited that so many people chose to listen to Episode 1. 

In this episode we'll be talking about outdoor access including Scotland's enviable right to roam and outdoor access code, vernacular architecture in Scotland (vernacular basically means using whatever building materials are available) and ancestry research.

We'll finish the episode with each of our Scots words of the episode.

Please feel free to get in touch with us over our social media channels to tell us what you think, ask us questions or suggest topics for us to cover in future Scottish Blethers episodes.  You can find us on Facebook and Instagram as @Scottishblethers and on twitter as @scottishblether

Thanks !

Scottish Blethers podcast is the result of 3 Blue Badge qualified Scottish tourist guides having time on their hands !  We decided to take our knowledge, learn new (tech) skills and have a laugh talking about different topics relating to Scotland that we thought people might enjoy listening to.  

We don't take ourselves too seriously and we hope that you can join us on our podcasting learning curve and let us know what you think - and give us topics that you would like us to cover.

Our first episode is an introduction to who we are, why we have decided to podcast and what you can expect from an episode.  At the end of the episode, each of us will choose a Scots word that we want to teach you.  In this episode, we explain the word "blether" and other words that can be used to describe a discussion.