30 Nov 2006
Hugh Fitzgerald
"Stornoway"
I was there once, propellor-jetted to the capital of Lewis and Harris, which I confused with the Isle of Muck and was poking around looking for leftover bottles of whiskey from Whiskey Galore.
It was the birthplace of Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross Canada in a sled, or by canoe (portage not included) or possibly on snow shoes which counts as pedibus calcantibus. I forget. But somehow he did it. Well, I think I can speak for Alexander Mackenzie's ghost and ghosts of many Christians past from before and after the Enclosures to say: Lewis and Harris are all about the dyes for the Harris tweed made from the moss and the machair. They are about a wee dram of The Macallan to keep the chill off. They are about salmon-fishing at a grand house, well-gillied, by the sea. They are not about hijabs and hadith and an unchangeable desert dogma cobbled together 1350 year ago to justify and promote conquest of others and used right up to today -- and will be used tomorrow -- for the same purpose.
30 Nov 2006
Mary Jackson
Whisky, surely, not "whiskey"? Whiskey is Irish, and possibly American - though I thought that was Bourbon or something. Scotch is whisky.
Talking, as we weren't, of the latest Bond film, what other word is associated with "galore"?
30 Nov 2006
john utting
btw,whats a rand estate?
is that something like hugh hefners place?regarding poobah or whatever,she might get 3or 4 stepmothers in lahore .why dont they try doing 6months in lahore and 6 in stornaway till she comes of age then let her choose. infidel dog.
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