I was thinking of this book just last week when we went to "look for puffins" (although we weren't on the "Seabird Special boat trip") and I thought - I have successfully become a what Bill Oddie called a Dude As you'd expect, the book is affectionate to the hobby by being ruthlessly funny
Why doesn't Carlos Braithwaite, the largest pundit, simply eat the others?
This here is the schooner Elena weighing anchor off Oban this morning. She was built in 2009 to a 1910 design. If you have €6.5m knocking about you can "enquire" with Camper and Nicholsons camperandnicholsons.com/buy-a-yacht/...
The billiard room at the Western Isles Hotel, Tobermory, is called Kiloran
We went to the Turner Prize show at Tate Britain in 2014 and we still quote this comment left by a previous visitor
There's a joke in Tintin that only works in French, because of the pun on méduse
You could get this effect by rolling your face over a photocopier as it scanned. As I believe Snuff did for the cover of their (stupidly named) debut album www.discogs.com/master/42229...
I took this picture the other week of some classic yachts visiting Fairlie, home of the greatest yacht designer of all. That white thing isn't Fairlie, it's Hunterston A nuclear power station
The trouble with "where is the North-South Divide?" is that it's an instance of the sorites paradox Start with engaging on proposed resolutions to that, maybe, and we might get somewhere
I had this one Presumably somewhere there's the third in the trilogy, Your Austin Maxi with Derek Griffiths
Polidori had an intensely Catholic upbringing and wanted to become a priest publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-po...
"That's a very nice rendering, George. I think you've improved a great deal. Can you hold it a bit closer? That's Dr. Zippy, isn't it?"
On this, by the way... They're trying to get from Carsaig (where the phone box is) to Colonsay (which is "Kiloran") as shown The Gulf of Corryvreckan is a long way off course (the box to the east) BUT the Great Race is pretty insane. You can't outrun an 8.5kn current in a small boat
LOL, *terrible* time to mess up your superscripts That would be *a googol years*, not less time than since the last ice age...
The picture used in this article for Do The Right Thing has one of the film's sly jokes: the white yuppie is wearing the Boston Celtics jersey of Larry Bird, pretty much the only famous white basketball player
If last week is anything to go by, it looks like being a good year for the minkes This was south of Arran last Sunday, the first whale of the day. Several more over the next few days, can't remember so many being around
