Fuddy-Duddy Clifford

So many A to Z Participants this year! WOWZER! Its quite overwhelming!

The April A to Z Blog Challenge has come a long way from its first year way back when. Its a great blog challenge and I've met so many awesome bloggers through this challenge and through Alex. It's always a wild ride and completely different every time.

Back to the Nostalgia Theme.

Something that makes me nostalgic and takes me way back, is my very first car I bought and owned.

I was so proud that I'd saved enough money to buy my very own second hand car.  I even named him!  Clifford, my MK2 Ford Escort was a bargain and I could wait to drive it!  

A couple of days into owning my very own wee car, I realised why it was such a bargain... It was only running on only 3 cylinders, which meant I had to avoid steep hills and going up certain roads, because it was only a 1300 to begin with. Clifford had pretty much no power.

That didn't put me off!  I was young and my motto was... "have car, will drive" and drive I certainly did.  I went everywhere in wee Clifford.  My Ford Escort was baby blue with a trendy vinyl roof and I thought I was the shizzle.  I even bought matching fuzzy car seat covers and put in a tape deck so that I could play my MixTapes.

Loads of fun was had in that wee car.  Clifford could even tell a few stories about the Drive-In...

Enjoy this track by Fleetwood Mac....Go Your Own Way from 1977.

F is for Foosty

“Foosty”

Pronounced : foos-tee

Definition :  Something rotten, gone bad, mouldy, past its expiry date.

Usage : Ma Mirra, gettorinti a foosty dod 'o breed. 

Translation :  I bread your pardon?


Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.  

It's also home to the very pretty Balgonie Castle.  Fifers' accent is pretty kewl, they sing when they talk and go up at the end of their sentences.

Fife, Scotland

A braw wee lass from Fife with a voice to match