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

[Sgurr]

Thanks Sgurr. I'm not sure why your daddy's mammy deserved to be treated so callously. Ah well.

RBA was known as the CP.

You are stirring it, Glengavel. Given that the song was probably sung by a Mammy, Daddy's Mammy is the mother-in-law. Mine was quite nice apart from announcing early on that she would have a nervous breakdown if we got married in a Registry Office, but I gather that the daughter/mother in law relationships might sometimes lead to unfortunate transport alignments.


Curses, just realised that CP in England is the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland....maybe google will tell me if any Scots went into that career south of the Border.

[Glengavel]

Sorry, no legal connection here.

[Glengavel]

RBA was generally referred to as CB. The P aspect of the CP clue made him a lot of money.

[Sgurr]

I am running out of things your protagonist could be "chief" of. I don't think it was the paraffin industry, or petrolium, or potassium , potatoes. Any more clues????

[Glengavel]

Not a chief. His endeavours were of a physical nature.

RBA's father was also RBA but in his case the A was a later addition in deference to his wife.

[Sgurr]

Not Robert Barclay Allardyce? Known also as Captain Barclay the ??Celebrated Pedestrian????

[rohan]

A famous on of Stonehaven. I've been napping (sort of)

[Glengavel]

Well done Sgurr. Once won a bet to walk a thousand miles in a thousand hours.

[Sgurr]

Amazing man. I see that the walking record for lejog 837 miles is now 12 days 30 minutes which is 288.5 hours,1000 hours is 41.66 days. It's just the thought of doing it in Victorian footwear.

NRS are unique.

[Glengavel]

National Records of Scotland? Can't think why they'd be unique though, other than unique to Scotland.

[Sgurr]

Their associated NRSW is also unique.

[rohan]

Not the North Ronaldsay sheep again?

[Sgurr]

Yes!!! I usually search this and the other thread to make sure the question hasn't been posed before, but forgot to this time. I see Charles guessed them in about half a day after you put them up and nobody else got a look in. I don't think I even saw them (Or I may have packed them away in my subconscious) . Seems that they could go a small way towards saving the planet as their farts have less greenhouse gases in than other sheep. That was going to be a thinly veiled later clue. Over to you.


PS For anyone else who might be interested the NRSW is the North Ronaldsay Sheep Wall, built to stop them coming inland and eating the grass. They now have a ranger to rebuild it as the community was getting too small (or disinterested).

[rohan]

Easy enough done when they go as quick as my one did. I'm currently travelling, so will post when I get home tonight.

[rohan]

CCC maybe generous with time.