Re: The Cuisine of the North Atlantic.


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I imagine that there are few people, whether
Scottish, Irish, or American, who have actually
studied a map of the islands of the North Atlantic.
Most people have a vague idea of where Iceland is,
fewer could place a finger on a map and say, "These
are the Hebrides,", while The Faroes are a vague
idea that nobody seems to be able to locate. It's
the same with the Northern Isles, Shetland, Orkney
and the never-mentioned-on-a-conventional-map, the
Fair Isle.

Cheeky git - speak for yourself.
Not only could I find them with my eyes shut I've
been to half of them.

Would that be when you were run off Mull?

Mull; an excellent place to get far from the madding
crowds, yet still have a "night out on the town" in
Tobermory.

Ah yes - dear old Tobermory. Scotland's answer to Port
Talbot.

Well, at least Tobermory has buildings with _some_ colour
in them.

Not to mention the licensed hardware shop - a blue one IIRC -
you don't see many of them about do you?

Unfortunately, it was shut during my one and only visit in the
low season. However, it is on my "to do" list. And Mull must
be quite nice without horizontal rain and high winds; I hope.

Legend has it.
Never met anyone who has seen it though.
Only place I've ever seen rain going staight up too.
But although you can only ever see about 20 feet of it at a
time, Mull is still stunning pretty much everywhere.

Funnily enough, I have _one_ photo with a rainbow in it, though
suspect it might have been a flaw in the lens. Aye, it is my
favourite island, at least out the ones I've seen.

While in the south of the island we were kindly escorted along an
extremely underused (grass in middle) single-track road by a
pheasant in front, at the statutory speed limit of 5mph (for road
birds).

Trick is to hit them at about 35 - 38 mph. That's enough to kill
them without damaging the flesh.

That explains it. 45+ and it's radiator hole sized mince.

I once hit one head-on at chest height whilst riding my motorbike at
about 80mph.
Combined impact velocity must have been at least 100mph - I thought
it had broken my ribs.
A foot higher and it would have taken my head off.

Jings, that must've smarted a bit. But you still had it for tea that
night? Those birds seem to have an air of overwhelming stupidity about
them; at least the ones I've come across.

In my shooting days, what bothered me was the fact that one frequently
stumbled across a pheasant crouched in the heather, apparently under
the impression that it was invisible. You had to give them a shove to
get them flying, but even then I never had the heart to shoot at them
because it would have been like murdering the mentally retarded.

We use a word 'munt' for throwing something into the air.

"goan in munt at kite for ma"

One of my bosses did a bit of shooting - mainly rogue seals. He also kept an
enormous turkey which was intended for their Christmas dinner, but when it
came to the point no-one was prepared to wring its neck as it had become a
family favourite. He firmly refused to throttle it, but said to his wife "If
ee munt it aall shot at." She stood on a chair and tried several times to
heave it into the air, but none of the attempts were deemed sufficient to
avoid shooting her as well. So the bird got a reprieve and lived to a ripe
old age.

Neb


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