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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by Shug » Fri May 01, 2015 3:04 pm
The only thing that springs to mind is Dingwall, it being the former Norse 'capital' in Scotland.
But its not really an island. Different planet sometimes, but not island.
But its not really an island. Different planet sometimes, but not island.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Fri May 01, 2015 4:46 pm
Shug wrote:The only thing that springs to mind is Dingwall, it being the former Norse 'capital' in Scotland.
But its not really an island. Different planet sometimes, but not island.
Not Dingwall, and don't deride it. Many times have I blessed its late night supermarket and filling station - a beacon of light afore the desolation of the far north.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Sat May 02, 2015 6:02 pm
Come on CF, you'll know this one. The Picts were there before the Norsemen and the god-botherers after. Since when it's been left to the birds.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Sun May 03, 2015 7:29 pm
Dragging on I fear, so another clue. The first word is a now obsolete spelling of the more commonly used Scottish word, but is pronounced the same and there are quite a few scattered around the Highlands in various states of repair.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Sun May 03, 2015 10:33 pm
Shug wrote:Brough of Deerness?
Hooray!! Correct. Over to you for another teaser.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by Shug » Mon May 04, 2015 8:30 pm
I look down on her, because she stares at stolen cows,
I look up to her, because she has the shepherds eye.
But I, AD, have a beery cave.
I look up to her, because she has the shepherds eye.
But I, AD, have a beery cave.

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by Shug » Mon May 04, 2015 9:15 pm

Way way too easy!
Your turn.

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by rockhopper » Mon May 04, 2015 11:10 pm
At which BL does more than a few millennia separate two places of "rest" ?
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Wed May 06, 2015 7:30 am
rockhopper wrote:At which BL does more than a few millennia separate two places of "rest" ?
Was thinking it might be Loch Borralie, reversed? Probably way off but there are iron age burials there.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by rockhopper » Wed May 06, 2015 7:47 am
'fraid notCharlesT wrote:rockhopper wrote:At which BL does more than a few millennia separate two places of "rest" ?
Was thinking it might be Loch Borralie, reversed? Probably way off but there are iron age burials there.
Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by CharlesT » Thu May 07, 2015 8:30 pm
We is stumped.
Clue please.

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by rockhopper » Thu May 07, 2015 9:30 pm
not on the Scottish mainlandCharlesT wrote:We is stumped.Clue please.

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland
by nigheandonn » Thu May 07, 2015 11:01 pm
There's Barpa Langais, which is one of the oldest buildings in the world, but I don't know what would be restful about it now!