Half hung Archie

Started the day at home, was in my office in Dunoon, then went to Edinburgh ( to open the new Entrepreneurial Spark "Hatchery" in the city ) and finished up in Strachur to see a play by local journalist Gordon Neish.

It has been written for the Strachur Historical Society , and tells the "true " story of the Loch Fyneside character Archibald MacPhunn of Dreip who was - allegedly - hanged for sheep stealing at Inveraray but revived afterwards ( in the boat bringing his body back across the loch) by a mixture of whisky and mother's milk.

I first heard the story from Sir Fitzroy MacLean who named the bar in the Creggans Inn , when he owned it, after MacPhunn and who also had a malt whisky bottled in "half hung Archie's" honour.

It was an enjoyable end to a long day. Congratulations to the cast and to the Society.