claymore
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The midgies have been resting but I understand they will make an appearance around July15thHow the f**k did Nicola get the midges in lockdown too?She deserves a medal!!!
Oh to be in Oban...
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wully1
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Cubby‘s Midge Salve is what yer Lardship will be requiring - you may thank me by buying copious quantities of beer in the Galley when restrictions are lifted.
Amulet
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Weather's been astounding here in lockdown. If you can't make it to Oban, here are some Oban lockdown sunsets (almost all shot from my balcony): Lockdown Sunsets Oban
JumbleDuck
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Same here in the deep southwest. Best weather in the 20 years I've lived here and, like you, we're had amazing sunsets. Nice pictures!
claymore
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Ha - I bought Bob Orrell's book a few years ago and wondered if there was a connection with yourself! All is now revealed. Beautiful photos - I just had a gander at tonight's scene which is just like a millpond. Don't know when we will be able to get there but a pound to a pinch of snuff it won't be a lovely as it is this evening! That is one hell of lens you must have!
steve yates
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Love it, that looks great! You wouldn't get views like that in Leeds you know
JumbleDuck
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Love it, that looks great! You wouldn't get views like that in Leeds you know
Anyway, you only get view like that in Oban when it isn't raining - which is what, two days per year? Three?
steve yates
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There you go JD, I rest my case
zoidberg
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"All the world's The Lord's
....and all the world contains.
Except the Western Highlands
....and they're all MacBraynes"
....and all the world contains.
Except the Western Highlands
....and they're all MacBraynes"
wully1
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Ate breakfast outside in shorts (again) this morning. It was 29 degrees C in the garden..
I really hope this weather returns for when restrictions are eased as it has been perfect sailing weather here for weeks on end.
But.... mid July is the ‘Glasgow Fair’ holidays and the weather is ALWAYS shyte then.
I really hope this weather returns for when restrictions are eased as it has been perfect sailing weather here for weeks on end.
But.... mid July is the ‘Glasgow Fair’ holidays and the weather is ALWAYS shyte then.
zoidberg
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Are you going to open the big breeding cages and let the Alien Midges oot, jist in time fur 'Ra Fair'...?
claymore
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The Lord owns the Highlands,
The Wind and the Rain
And all of the rest
Belongs to MacBrayne
JumbleDuck
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We don't let them out. We just stop feeding them and by the Glasgow Fair they are hungry enough to chew their way out.
wully1
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Been trialing Cubby’s Midge Salve with pretty good results but I’m feart to put it to the ultimate test of the Argyll forests....
zoidberg
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You won't know it, but I've got some 'previous' in respect of West Coast clegs, etc.
The worst, the very worst, encounter was on coming ashore at Loch Scavaig from a catamaran dinghy and looking to put up a tent on the boggy, grassy area between the hut and the burn. There was no wind.
We had to keep our wetsuits on, neoprene gloves, and wear TWO woolly balaclavas, one back to front.....
The worst, the very worst, encounter was on coming ashore at Loch Scavaig from a catamaran dinghy and looking to put up a tent on the boggy, grassy area between the hut and the burn. There was no wind.
We had to keep our wetsuits on, neoprene gloves, and wear TWO woolly balaclavas, one back to front.....
wully1
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zoidberg
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You try enjoying 6 hours sailing in a neoprene wetsuit, getting ashore to be enveloped in a cloud of clegs and midges..... not daring to bare yer bum for a needed slash..... then having to swim back to the entrance-rocks where there was a wee bitty breeze.
claymore
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Whit kind o' a mannie are youse - bearin' yer bum fer a slash....?You try enjoying 6 hours sailing in a neoprene wetsuit, getting ashore to be enveloped in a cloud of clegs and midges..... not daring to bare yer bum for a needed slash..... then having to swim back to the entrance-rocks where there was a wee bitty breeze.
zoidberg
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It's crystal-clear, ye addled ol' scrote, that ye've nivver worn a wetsuit, whethir sleeveless or full-on, 'cos the zip's up ra back**..... an' ra only way in or oot is tae roll the bloody thing doon past yer knees.
It disnae tak' much imagination to suss whit a posse o' Hielan' clegs wid mak' o' sic a sicht!
( for those townies whose rural 'facts of life' education lies on the wrong side of inadequate - biting hordes of clegs )
** unless ye've pit yours oan ra wrong way roon'. Ah widnae pit it past ye.....
It disnae tak' much imagination to suss whit a posse o' Hielan' clegs wid mak' o' sic a sicht!
( for those townies whose rural 'facts of life' education lies on the wrong side of inadequate - biting hordes of clegs )
** unless ye've pit yours oan ra wrong way roon'. Ah widnae pit it past ye.....
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NormanS
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I remember a framed message somewhere, which said, "Doing a good turn around here is like having a pee in your wetsuit. It gives you that good all over warm feeling, and nobody knows you've done it."