Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

[CharlesT]

No compulsion Charles, just your competitive nature (takes one to know one). Yes, that's it: more precisely it is the Earldom of Dumbarton. I had to close my door and view on iplayer, as any mention of anything Royal elicited a similar response from R. It's a lost cause now I'm afraid. Even Alex Salmond was forced to say we'd keep them after independence....or was it just HER?

I may have mentioned it before, but my mother wss a Gael and my middle initial is E, but I don't avow to be other than what I am, even if I can't escape the royal pretence.

Now an OW has a P at the gates of dawn (with apologies to Kenneth Grahame).

[Sgurr]

It's not the Old Waverley Hotel is it, where Trip Advisor says you can often hear a bagpiper at dawn? Is it?

[CharlesT]

It's not the Old Waverley Hotel is it, where Trip Advisor says you can often hear a bagpiper at dawn? Is it?

No! I thought you might get it in one. You're right about the Piper bit though.

[Sgurr]

Is it an Old Woman (namely HM the Queen) who is woken by a bagpiper every morning (Including , for the purposes of this quiz, when she stays at Balmoral).

[CharlesT]

Is it an Old Woman (namely HM the Queen) who is woken by a bagpiper every morning (Including , for the purposes of this quiz, when she stays at Balmoral).

No, again! You are a long way off. OW is an imagined event, immortalised by one of O's most notable residents.

[Sgurr]

The only person I can think of coming from a place "O" is Charles Avery who invented the imaginary town of Onamatopeia and came from Oban, but I can't find out what the W is, unless it is the Onapamopeia Wakes.

[CharlesT]

The only person I can think of coming from a place "O" is Charles Avery who invented the imaginary town of Onamatopeia and came from Oban, but I can't find out what the W is, unless it is the Onapamopeia Wakes.

Inventive, but no. O is further north and recent events supply a context.

[Sgurr]

OK. An Orkney Wedding by Peter Maxwell Davies includes a piper.

[Sgurr]

Double post

[CharlesT]

OK. An Orkney Wedding by Peter Maxwell Davies includes a piper.

Correct at last. An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise to give it its full title. An amusing piece, some orchestras are better than others at playing out of tune. Must be a challenge. Your go.

[Sgurr]

G is sometimes known as SG, but the letter G stands for different things


According to PMD an Orkney Wedding is based on a real wedding

[Sgurr]

G had perforce to become SG when the RC, which was its founding raison d'etre, closed.

[Sgurr]

Sorry, I have been away and forgot my password so I couldn't log in to mobile devices. Think New Town

[CharlesT]

Sorry, I have been away and forgot my password so I couldn't log in to mobile devices. Think New Town

Is SG Silicon Glen by any chance?

[Sgurr]

It is. I won't force you to spell out the rest.
Glenrothes had perforce to become Silicon Glen when the Rothes Coliery which was its founding raison d'etre, closed. I have to admit, I had forgotten what it was all about when I came home, and couldn't think it out at all. I had to go back to my browsing history to work out what I must have been checking.