I get “spiky” on For A’ That podcast

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 4th April 2013 - 8:43 am

On Saturday I took part in the For A’ That podcast in Scotland along with regulars Andrew Tickell and Michael Greenwell and fellow guest Green (and former Liberal Democrat) Douglas McLellan. It’s not all about Scottish stuff. We had quite a long conversation at the beginning about immigration and Nick Clegg’s speech in particular.

A rich abundance of podcastiness today, starring a spiky @caronmlindsay arguing that we’re #bettertogether bit.ly/10oQ41u #indyref

— LallandsPeatWorrier (@PeatWorrier) April 1, 2013

Spiky, Andrew? I think maybe spirited is more appropriate. I certainly wasn’t cross or heated and was quite enjoying chewing the fat from my kitchen table. I had a couple of good rants at the SNP and its various failures. I think I might have called Alex Salmond’s posturing on childcare “crude” and “cynical”. Which it is.

Anyway, I’ll leave you to judge whether I’m turning into a cactus. I was fair chuffed with one of the comments left at Andrew’s blog:

Yes excellent stuff – I thought Caron made the strongest case I have heard so far for the coalition – am not at all convinced, but a bonny fechter.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

5 Comments

Mary Reid 4th Apr '13 - 8:55pm

What is a ‘bonny fechter’, Caron?
Caron Lindsay 4th Apr '13 - 10:37pm

A war hero, apparently:-).
peter.tyzack 5th Apr '13 - 9:47am

.. and presumably A’ means ‘all’?
CP 5th Apr '13 - 2:12pm

So “spiky” means “makes a strong case”

Jolly good!
Thanks for the translations 🙂
Caron Lindsay 6th Apr '13 - 8:22am

I’ll have you all speaking Scots yet, Peter:-)