Maybole

And I was doing it, and I was in a tannoy.

So then somebody booked me, a, a, um, like a gala day [laughs] down in like near Maybole.

No.

Booked me for a set.

One gentleman was so much tickled he nearly fell out of the cart; indeed, he was only saved by a companion who either had not so fine a sense of humor or had drunken less.

'The town of Maybole,' says the inimitable Abercrombie, 'stands upon an ascending ground from east to west, and lies open to the south.

It hath one principal street, with houses upon both sides, built of freestone; and it is beautified with the situation of two castles, one at each end of this street.

That on the east belongs to the Earl of Cassilis.

Just opposite to this vennel there is another that leads north-west, from the chief street to the green, which is a pleasant plot of ground, enclosed round with an earthen wall, wherein they were wont to play at football, but now at the golf and bias bowls.

The houses of this town, on both sides of the street, have their several gardens belonging to them; and in the lower street there be some pretty orchards, that yield store of good fruit.' As Paterson says, this description is near enough even to-day, and is mighty nicely written to boot.

I am bound to add, of my own experience, that Maybole is tumble-down and dreary.

Prosperous enough in reality, it has an air of decay; and though the population has increased, a roofless house every here and there seems to protest the contrary.

Me and the coaches signed on for another season, so that was always the plan.

And we'd went down and, and played Maybole in the cup on the Saturday three, four weeks ago now and had a really good result that day.

And then on, on the bus journey on the way up the road, seeing that Stevie had resigned from Lanark, and to be honest with you, mate, over the next kind of 36 to 48 hours, everything moved quite quickly.

Lanark approached me on the, the Sunday morning, and I was actually, believe it or not, going away on holiday for three days, um, on the, on the Sunday night into Monday morning, and they just asked me to go up and, and meet them and, and get a chat, like nothing serious, and, and that's kind of the...

Like he, he's went in there and he, he, he won a league and get promoted the next year.

But obviously, as I say, it's just, it's a, it's a massive club and when, when the job...

As I say, we were, we were on the bus journey on the way home from Maybole and my phone just went off and one, like with everybody, um, and, and at the time you...

I, I've had it before and you, you kind of try and blank it out and stuff like that.

As Senga Burrasford will know, there have been, um, upgrades made to the A77 at different stages.

If my memory serves me right, the Maybole bypo- bypass is one of the particular schemes that have been taken forward, which has significantly enhanced the safety of the road and improved the quality of life of individuals in the Maybole area.

Um, other developments will be taken forward on a sustainable basis.

The government obviously has a capital program, which is the subject of consideration in the budget process, and it will be for Parliament to determine the contents of that budget program, which will obviously have an impact on the funding available for roads improvements in Scotland.