The menu looks interesting and one item caught my eye: Neeps & Tatties. I
assume tatties are potatoes; neeps are...turnips?
Charlie
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, tough luck Chris, but an experience no doubt.
>
> I have added a Sandwood Bay collection to my Sutherland and Caithness album
> on Zone-10, so others can see what they are missing:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=8096
>
> And I assume you are drying off ready for the trip to:
>
> http://www.lochinverlarder.co.uk/
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 September 2013 16:29
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Scottish moorland, loch and mountain
>
> Thanks, Piers, and for the guide to pronunciation (which I had been
> searching for).
>
> We have just walked to Sandwood Bay and a glorious experience it was too,
> with the mountains to the east and north and the highland lochs around many
> a corner. But then it started to drizzle, gently. We got to the deserted
> settlement above Sandwood Bay before I judged it appropriate to turn back
> and we spent an hour walking into a 20kt wind with driving rain (at times)!
> But it was worth the experience, certainly.
>
> We're drying off now . . .
>
> No, Cape Wrath in general, and Garvie Island in particular, are quiet,
> unfortunately. I've dropped a few 1,000lb bombs on Garvie, but nothing is
> happening at the moment.
>
> Chris
>
> On 4 Sep 2013, at 12:20, "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Nice work, Chris, hope you haven't been disturbed by too much activity
> > on the range (unusually busy at Tain yesterday, I can't imagine why...).
> >
> > Do please make the trip to Sandwood Bay, it's an easy walk, with
> > breathtaking results (if it remains windy, probably literally so, but
> > still worthwhile). You can reward yourselves with a visit to the pie
> > shop in Lochinver on your way back southwards. Bring me a Chicken and
> > Leek if you will :-)
> >
> > My guess is that Meadaidh is pronounced as in Maida Vale, which does
> > not necessarily mean that the latter is a corruption of Meadaidh Bheil
> > - that might be taking "Scots Diaspora" to the extreme. This site
> > might be of
> > interest:
> > http://www.cuhwc.org.uk/page/unofficial-guide-pronouncing-gaelic
> >
> > And "end of the mountains" sounds right, as it's the same term in
> > Kinlochbervie - aka Ceann Loch Biorbhaigh.
>
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