Up close and personal

with the Cu Bocan
Holiday Mum and Dad went back this morning when we left for work. It’s been a great few days with them doing the fringe.
Went to work feeling tired after the weekend’s fun. Stay over to get a few things done.

Here is a pic of one of the finds of the whisky fringe. Cu Bocan from Tomatin. A great dram and based around an old story from the area.

The Cu Bocan was allegedly the last wild wolf in Scotland, which was shot by the distillery. So the story goes the Cu Bocan has stalked residents of the remote highland village of Tomatin for many centuries, his legend embellished by the hellhound's increasingly fractious behaviour.
Sightings area rare but always terrifying. A distillery worker was once relentlessly pursued by an imposing black beast, steam spiralling from flared nostrils, teeth bared whilst out for a nightly walk.
Compelled beyond all natural reason to feel the hound's dense fur he stopped and reached out only to see the ghostly spectre dissolve before his very eyes leaving nothing but a vacuum of deathly silence and an inky blue cloud of smoke, which soon spirited away across the peat moorland.

Can't wait to have a dram. Might have to wait for an equally bleak night, which, with the weather today won't be too long.