Hebridean mode!

Ach a few days here and I am right into Hebridean mode. Look how I managed to sneak up on this high flying sheep up on the roof of the old house! Sheep are quite easy to sneak up on when you know how to do it, we used to amuse ourselves as children sneaking up on them then jumping on their backs and pretending they were motor bikes!

This greedy one was on the roof of an old thatched house on Tiree, not a Black House as many would say though I suspect the building nearest my camera may have started life as a Black House then transmogrified into a thatched house (sometimes known as Taigh Geal, the white house) because islanders used to white wash the walls. I hate it when folks call every thatch house they see a Black House when its not! be warned!

I see the Gaelic Mafia better known as the Gafia have finally caught up on CalMac and have made them have bilingual signs on their ferries. When I was coming over on Monday , some CalMac clown has decreed the dog area should be in the passage way in front of the doors to the upper lounge where all the parents with their run around kids hang out, also by the doors leading to the outer deck for all these leaper smokers and the doors leading to the ladies toilets. In otherwords they have put the dog area in possibly one of the bussiest thourghfares on the boat. However the best part is as a result of the Gafia the Gaelic word for dogs has been writ in letters bold COIN, which to the monoglot English speaker reads coin on the wall right beside the toilets!!

Consequently there are folks charging to the loos and suddenly seeing the word COIN, start scrabbling in their pockets to look for coins as they think they have to pay for the loo. Honestly I do not make this up. Its hilarious to us Gaels watching desperate people furiously fumbling in their pockets for coins, then they ask us and of course...we have none...but we do have COIN which is the plural for you guessed it..DOGs

Weather stunning and I could have given you all yet another beautiful beach pic but I got fed up and have gone back to my sheepy roots.

Off to a ceilidh dance now

Oidche mhath all