Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Typo I am sure Taintedice, but union of the parliaments was 1603 and Union of the crowns James 1st and 6th was 1707. I thought this created the United Kingdom, but not sure. Rross no doubt will correct .

I think that people who post on this forum in the past wee while have improved it a bit. Covid has been an interesting topic and so has the discussion about Holyrood and Nicola. Noticed she has volunteered to give up her daily broadcast during the run up to the election because it was unfair. Must have been true then when all the other political parties have been saying this for months.
You've got those events mixed up, the union of the crowns was first, then came the union of the parliaments after the Darien episode in the 1690s. The UK wasn't created till the early 1800s when Ireland joined, although most folk just take 1707 as the creation date.

Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Your best riposte Taintedice. Be better if you had got the spelling right for Lindsay, but comment made me smile!
I'm being lazy today, not checking stuff properly, it's the weekend after all. deeranged might have actually said something amusing and I've missed that as well.