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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue May 24, 2022 10:48 am

Are you TELEPATHIC? Yes.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed May 25, 2022 10:28 am

Sgurr wrote:Are you TELEPATHIC? Yes.


thanks!

What do F, C, FI, H, R, M and IS have in common?

PS some would dispute R's place in the list.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed May 25, 2022 11:11 am

They are all nature reserves
Forvie
Craigellachie
Flanders Moss
Hermaness
Rum (is a whole island, and only part is really a Nature Reserve
Moine
IneverShie
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed May 25, 2022 11:30 am

Sgurr wrote:They are all nature reserves
Forvie
Craigellachie
Flanders Moss
Hermaness
Rum (is a whole island, and only part is really a Nature Reserve
Moine
IneverShie


What an ingenious answer! It is not what I'm thinking of - but I almost want to say Yes to it!

In the ones I am thinking of, key dates for R being included in the list are 1811, 1955 and especially 1972. There was also an incident in 2021.

But the R I am thinking of carries on regardless of those issues, and, like the others in the list, is well known, especially to radio listeners.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed May 25, 2022 2:08 pm

Are they lists of islands woth R being Rockall and Fl the Flannan Isles? I am sure I can find some more. Don't think they are shipping forecast areas. though Rockall is.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed May 25, 2022 7:32 pm

Sgurr wrote:Are they lists of islands woth R being Rockall and Fl the Flannan Isles? I am sure I can find some more. Don't think they are shipping forecast areas. though Rockall is.


My suggestions
1) they are not islands
2) have another go with your guess...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Wed May 25, 2022 8:12 pm

Forth, Cromarty, Fair Isle, Hebrides, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea.

These are the only Shipping Forecast areas that border the Scottish mainland and/or islands. Rockall is questionable because Ireland has laid claim to it, although it has "officially" been ceded to Scotland.

I think Sgurr deserves the credit though, even if only because I'm rubbish at thinking up questions.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed May 25, 2022 8:45 pm

Glengavel, you do it. I should be sorting out more rooms. Spent all today cleaning windows, but haven't finished, only run out of steam.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed May 25, 2022 10:18 pm

Just to confirm that Glengavel gave the answer, although Sgurr mentioned it first!

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Thu May 26, 2022 9:08 am

Who moved from K to S to D?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Sat May 28, 2022 9:38 am

Changing from G to T to C to O along the way.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Tue May 31, 2022 11:48 am

The protagonist has been portrayed by VH (Scottish) and AD (not Scottish).
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue May 31, 2022 12:43 pm

Glengavel wrote:Who moved from K to S to D?


Could this be Chris Guthrie, the protagonist of Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair, who moved between three fictional places in Angus/Aberdeenshire in the three volumes of the trilogy?

That is, from the village of Kinraddie in Sunset Song, then to the town of Segget in Cloud Howe, and to Duncairn in Grey Granite?

And, portrayed by Vivien Heilbron in the BBC Scotland series? - but i don't know about AD.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Tue May 31, 2022 12:59 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
Glengavel wrote:Who moved from K to S to D?


Could this be Chris Guthrie, the protagonist of Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair, who moved between three fictional places in Angus/Aberdeenshire in the three volumes of the trilogy?

That is, from the village of Kinraddie in Sunset Song, then to the town of Segget in Cloud Howe, and to Duncairn in Grey Granite?

And, portrayed by Vivien Heilbron in the BBC Scotland series? - but i don't know about AD.

sunset song.jpg

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Correct.AD is Agness Deyne who played Chris in the film from a few years ago.

Chris Guthrie marries three times and changes her name to Tavendale, then Colquhon and then Ogilvie.

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue May 31, 2022 4:16 pm

I've not been keeping up with this thread having had a series of visitors, the latest I took into Stonehaven today. I persuaded them to buy some Sunset Song beer (brewed by the local Burnside brewery) as my reisdence is mentioned 3 times in SS which is also my favourite Scottish fictional book. They have a young baby and are currently resting so I was catching up with this, recognised the answer (but Tim was already there) but have to add that the TV series captured the essence of Chris and the way of life in the Mearns 100 years ago whereas the film adaptation (IMHO) did not.
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