tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post7396494898678151192..comments2023-12-18T15:03:52.326+00:00Comments on Jim's Loire: Scotland: a trio or so of spirited photos + other views on the A9CRMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12356808627188214016noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-44043673262890711662011-08-11T10:28:27.822+01:002011-08-11T10:28:27.822+01:00Jean – found you some snow on Ben Nevis.Jean – found you some snow on Ben Nevis.Jim's Loirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696024920441263899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-16738633929937550932011-08-11T10:28:05.271+01:002011-08-11T10:28:05.271+01:00Corrected comment:
Luc. Wot a savant!
Next week ...Corrected comment:<br /><br />Luc. Wot a savant!<br /><br />Next week we are indeed off to the Hebrides – my first time so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully the weather will be good. Sailing from Oban to Barra. Then making our way up to Stornoway and thence across The Midge to Ullapool.Jim's Loirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696024920441263899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-40036843433153337452011-07-30T11:46:29.660+01:002011-07-30T11:46:29.660+01:00Luc. Wot a savant!
Next week we are indeed off t...Luc. Wot a savant! <br /><br />Next week we are indeed off to the Hebrides – my first time so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully the weather will be good. Sailing from Oban to Barra. Then making our way up to Stornaway and thence across The Midge to Ullapool.Jim's Loirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696024920441263899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-63679407329631078302011-07-30T11:28:02.425+01:002011-07-30T11:28:02.425+01:00Rah, one of the loveliest places in the whole wide...Rah, one of the loveliest places in the whole wide world (www !). But “Go West , Old Man!”.<br />It’s the Hebrides we want, or at least Campbeltown. We want peat, we want peat. Enough of this NO-regal stuff.<br />Still (pot-still of course), with that kind o’ weather, we understand poor Mary, the sadest of all queens, having to leave France where she had been so happy – in spite of the Medicis woman – to discover “her” own country with the rogue Lords, Elisabeth‘s treachery next door and ... no Ronsard or du Bellay to sing her praise:<br /> “En vostre esprit le ciel s’est surmonté<br /> Nature et art ont en vostre beauté<br /> Mis tout le beau dont la beauté s’assemble ... »<br />Which means so much as:<br />“Jim, thy shirts are ever so beautiful<br />That none in the world, be it white, black or colourful<br />Could reach half their magnificence ...”<br /><br />Relevant? (How much on a scale of one to ten?).Luc Charliernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-18827677562572707092011-07-30T07:43:10.200+01:002011-07-30T07:43:10.200+01:00Thanks Jean – was just snapping as we drove up.Thanks Jean – was just snapping as we drove up.Jim's Loirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696024920441263899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456611623448834500.post-7367233528114898132011-07-29T23:10:01.347+01:002011-07-29T23:10:01.347+01:00It's such a long time since I've been to S...It's such a long time since I've been to Scotland - lovely photos. I'm somehow surprised there isn't snow on the hills, though !!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726164724131916224noreply@blogger.com