Lawsey escapes from the Wardrobe..& is back in town!
I never thought I'd get away from those windy islands...the Outer Hebrides...a hundred haggis's off the UK mainland!Those twenty plus thousand residents living on the Isle of Lewis are very brave living through the winter in such wild weather. The curtains of rain,hail,and snow were a sight to be ....umm....not wished on anyone!! Nontheless,over Xmas and New Year, your hardcore correspondent survived it all...even though he found himself allocated a caravan on the beach...as accommodation at the family home was overflowing!! The wind was so noisy and gusting one was reminded of life at the base camp on Mt Everest!Socially and gastromonically the holiday was all very pleasant and it was a joy to spend time with my daughter and her husband Murdo Stal Macleod MacDonald (a typical name up there!)and their three children...and his other relations and friends nearby....at Upper Coll!! near Back..on the east coast.Departing Stornaway by ferry I left behind islanders alarmed at the 2005-2006-2007 prospect of about the 300 windmills being erected on their skyline (each with 400 foot width propellors!)No Community Forums up there...not even Broadband yet...so little opportunity for them to stir the porridge!..Back on the mainland at Ullapool,where the Shell Garage Cashier has a fabulous view of Loch Broom, the lonesome road takes one to Inverness..now a City...and then 600 miles to London via Aviemore (snow blizzard), Perth, and then south..to Sunny Brentford!So, Happy New Year to everyone. Lets hope that our wonderful cyberspace friendships continue and that everyone feels and knows that their own keyboard activities are much valued.
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