Meet The Partridge Family, Glasgow Style

Rosie Kane performing stand up for at a Kiltwalk Charity Night?

What the "my oath is to the people" protesting one. The one arrested at an anti-nuclear demonstration at Faslane, and then spent time in prison for refusing to pay her fine?

Have The Kiltwalk gone all "political?"

Well it was 'that' Rosie Kane, the same Rosie Kane with a long history of helping charities and fund raising for needy causes. Like the time she camped out in a make-shift street bedroom to raise cash for Scotland's Homeless World Cup football team in support of the charity Poverty Solutions, who were sending Scotland's eight players to Sweden for the Homeless World Cup.

Yes the same Rosie Kane who took the asylum seekers Mercy Ikolo and her young daughter into her home for five months after their release from Dungavel immigration centre, giving them her bedroom while she slept on the couch.

You see Rosie, who is no stranger to speaking her mind, now treads the boards doing her stand-up routine. However it was a career change borne out of necessity rather than a desire to forge a new career in comedy, or "telling stories" as puts it.

No it all started when Rosie belonged to a women's theatre group facing closure in 2012, due to lack of funding and Rosie was persuaded to take to the stage and tell the stories she tells in pubs, in a theatre for money to raise funds.

Rosie has always been a keen supporter of The Kiltwalk, particularly on Twitter, where we managed to snare her when she agreed to meet us for a few hours a few months ago to discuss a 'project'.

We met at the Waterside Inn and after an hour of banter had past, we got down to business and before I had got to the end of my sentence, well Rosie could tell I was verbose, she said "aye, I'd love to do it, let's call it Kiltyersel Laughing".

So Rosie and her two extremely talented brothers Tam and Andy took to the stage at the Waterside Inn, Barrhead last Friday night to tell their stories and play their songs, just like a modern day Partridge Family.

There was plenty of laughter as Rosie took us on a whirlwind adventure starting as a young child, the only girl among five siblings, and takes us on a journey of fractured skulls, Govan wumin, protesting at Faslane and up to her unplanned election to the Scottish parliament in 2003, where her story ends at the moment she's elected.

Her stories give away the secret of why Pollok had some of the best attended hedges and gardens in the whole of Glasgow, never mind the South Side and had tears streaming down our cheeks as she described building a 'jail within a jail'.

However as hilarious as they were, one on my favourite moments was during the interval when Carey asked me "what's a boat house?" to which I replied, "a boat hoose?, I'll put it into a sentence for you".

So I said "I live in a council hoose, but my mate Andy lives in a boat house".

Now Carey, brought up in Carnoustie and now living in Edinburgh just looked at me and smiled, with that "I still don't get it" look upon his face.

It was at that point I realised I need to change the pronunciation of "boat" from Glaswegian to English, so tried again.

"I live in a council house, but my friend Andrew lives in a house his parents have bought" :-)

It really was a great night, so thanks to all Oor Kiltwalkers for once again putting their hands in their pockets and helping to raise hundreds of pounds on the night.

Thanks to Darren at The Waterside Inn who provided the use of his function room free of charge and finally thanks to Oor Rosie and her two brothers pictured above (Andy left, Tommy right).

You never know it may not be the last time The Kiltwalk laughs at Rosie's stories, however we might need Carey to translate if we head East.