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Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:02 am

Another clue then. The eponymous ER lies within it.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Tinto63 » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:21 pm

I see you have had no takers at all for this, Charles, so I had better have a go: has your TM anything to do with the two areas near here that have associations with extra terrestrials, Dechmont Law and the Falkirk Triangle?

The other rather mischievous suggestion has to be whether you are referring to the present incumbent of the post mentioned in the previous question? But of course she isn't Scottish!
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:46 pm

Tinto63 wrote:I see you have had no takers at all for this, Charles, so I had better have a go: has your TM anything to do with the two areas near here that have associations with extra terrestrials, Dechmont Law and the Falkirk Triangle?

The other rather mischievous suggestion has to be whether you are referring to the present incumbent of the post mentioned in the previous question? But of course she isn't Scottish!


No and no.

To be pedantic the event I have in mind had an extra-terrestrial genesis, but its effect was wholly terrestrial. Possibly one of the lesst known attributes of the place the name of which I seek.

The colourful gentlemen share their hue with a group of characters in Phrygian caps.

Lots of clues there.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:16 pm

Phrygian caps=Smurfs
Smurfs=blue
Boys in Blue= Police
Police College=Tullialan
I'm just hoping there's a moor there of which I know nothing..Tullialan Moor

The I shall be off northwards to walk up something, and don't know if there's Wifi
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:45 pm

Sgurr wrote:Phrygian caps=Smurfs
Smurfs=blue
Boys in Blue= Police
Police College=Tullialan
I'm just hoping there's a moor there of which I know nothing..Tullialan Moor

The I shall be off northwards to walk up something, and don't know if there's Wifi


First two lines spot on, then you go astray.

You would hope the boys in blue would be somewhat less scary than my gentlemen.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:13 pm

Boys in blue + extraterrestrial = RAF

Old airfield = Turnberry Maybole


My latest incorrect guess.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:21 pm

Sgurr wrote:Boys in blue + extraterrestrial = RAF

Old airfield = Turnberry Maybole


My latest incorrect guess.


Still way off. Further north and much more well known, its transit more hazardous.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:39 am

Struggling for a clue that's not too obvious.

SG (gaelic ) is a significant and potentially dangerous feature within it. The eponymous ER forming a part of it at times visible.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:08 pm

You'll all kick yourselves when the answer is revealed. It has an adjacent and connected little one and they together separate the inner from the outer.

If that doesn't do it nothing will. :roll:
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:26 am

This conspiracy of silence from the usual suspects has to cease!

It's s body of water for goodness sake. :shock:
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby garyoppolis » Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:21 pm

Do you know, I thought it might be The Minch when you mentioned ER (Eilean Rona?) but I couldn't make the connection to colourful men.

Has to be The Minch though surely?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby Sgurr » Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:58 pm

CharlesT wrote:This conspiracy of silence from the usual suspects has to cease!


Total gap where my brain used to be due to excessive exercise over the weekend bagging first husband's and then my final Marilyns north of the Highland Boundary fault. (Creag Scalabsdale and Sgurr Marcasaidh. Trip reports elsewhere, but, understandably, Paul does not like links to other sites so you will just have to find out where Squiz and Realsquiz's exploits are)
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:07 pm

garyoppolis wrote:Do you know, I thought it might be The Minch when you mentioned ER (Eilean Rona?) but I couldn't make the connection to colourful men.

Has to be The Minch though surely?


Correct at last! Though not Eilean Rona, but Eugenie Rock where the vessel Eugenie foundered and which is part of Sgeir Graidach, a navigational hazard.

The Minch is home to the Blue Men of the Minch, who beguile sailors to their doom with beautiful singing.

It is slso the site of the largest known meteorite strike in the British Isles and adjoins the Little Minch at its southerly end, together separating the inner and outer Hebrides.

I think that covers all the clues I struggled to produce.

Your go.
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby CharlesT » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:18 pm

Sgurr wrote:
CharlesT wrote:This conspiracy of silence from the usual suspects has to cease!


Total gap where my brain used to be due to excessive exercise over the weekend bagging first husband's and then my final Marilyns north of the Highland Boundary fault. (Creag Scalabsdale and Sgurr Marcasaidh. Trip reports elsewhere, but, understandably, Paul does not like links to other sites so you will just have to find out where Squiz and Realsquiz's exploits are)


Thought you would get it in one, and especially with the blue men clue, I've done them previously. :?
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Re: Can I have a 'P' please Bob - Scotland

Postby garyoppolis » Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:41 pm

Up the glen from DD, one of a pair of twins is visible. Each twin can, just, be seen from the other.
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