The Mantis

4 easy cars but I bet the location gets you.

Just one? I've got hunners

Found this one while searching for a fan photo for Johndo... .

Nice morning in 1993 on the May holiday weekend. The Loch Fyne coming into Kyle and the Skye Bridge nearing completion. Beinn na Caillich at Broadford right behind it and the Cuillins to the right. Had a great day climbing Sgurr nan Gillean by the Tourist Route and down the West Ridge. Obviously been spending my isolation scanning old slides

Gaelic. Cam beul or crooked mouth. Cameron = cam shron or crooked nose, people often say.

'Tis indeed the town of the squint-mooths

M.V. Isle of Lewis at Castlebay. May 2019. One tick off Mrs Mantis' bucket list to fly into Barra by the Traigh Mhór.

Well out of Sneck this one

Ah yes, should have realised as you must have stopped your car there. Sumburgh

Kirkwall?

Big Jordan will give you a sub.

Been to Shetland about 10 times since 1980 as the wife's sister and family are there. Used to be the St Clair. Only time on the Northlink boat was the Hjaltland in 2016, going up in September but usually fly nowadays. Mind you the planes can easily get cancelled but they put you up in a hotel. There's a bad bit about an hour south of Sumburgh called The Roost, and the other bit is in the Pentland Firth south of Orkney if it's not a direct sailing to Shetland. The only time I ever spewed was that bit in 2016 sailing from Aberdeen.The cabin was right in the bow and I was reading a book. Just came on suddenly.

May as well get another photo up if we're all confined to barracks... Isle of Arran at Stornoway, October 2017.

Not another merger thread

Liverpool supporting mate of mine says it's in the Premier League rules to award the title if 75% of fixtures have been played, which is 28.5, and they have played 29 not sure about the other teams though...

Well they need something to celebrate this season

Very true. This final doesn’t count towards anything else so it can be played sometime in the future when all of us can attend. Limiting it to an elite 250 is nonsense.

Lower League Ramblings Here I am again, baring my soul for all you lot to see. Yes I watch Love Island. I’m not proud of it but I live for the drama in the villa and I make sure I rush home to watch it every night. Like everyone else I am praying for them to chuck in a wee ugly fat guy from Greenock with incredible patter to represent our fine nation in front of millions. My prayers have not been answered. Instead they have chucked in an Edinburgh born hunk of a man, tattoos covering his chest and arms and teeth whiter than a Donald Trump rally. His first conversation made my blood boil, veins popping out my forehead and left my body more anger laden than an old firm statement about referees. Scottish Jamie: I’m from Edinburgh Essex Shaugna: So do you support Celtic or Rangers? I was… View original post 752 more words View the full article

I’ll be the first to say it, we weren’t actually that bad. We lost Toshney after 3 minutes. Against a decent, well-organised side like Alloa you don’t want to concede the first goal or there’s likely no way back. A scrappy deflected effort after 12 minutes, and we had the old familiar story where we spent the rest of the game trying to break them down while watching out for the counter attacks. And in Trouten and Banks they had at least a couple of creative players that could take advantage. We had any number of scrambled clearances in their box and if we had got one back it would probably have turned out differently. I lost count of the number of diagonal balls swung in by Rooney or Tremarco, in addition to Walsh or Doran or Storey, and 99% were headed clear by the Alloa defenders. As Yngwie said to me, it’s a pity we didn’t have a tall striker When we tried to play through the middle we were crowded out. And I don’t think Robbo can be criticised for not using the subs either. Back in the Wyness/Ritchie days we were a high flying team that would sweep aside teams like Alloa, but under Grant they’re back to being one of the best of the part-time teams, just as they were in the days of Terry Christie then Tom Hendrie, and look like they have a decent chance of staying up, so people will maybe have to get used to it.

MV Eilean na h-Oige at Eriskay in 1994. Replaced by the causeway in 2001.

Here's another easy one but it wasn't easy cloning out all the lecky wires

Funny, when I first saw this, I thought the hill was Torr Achilty beside Contin, but when I checked it was much bigger as Torr Achilty is below the tree line. So I just gave up on the area when I should have moved a few miles east The hill must be Cùl Mòr then.

False alarm. I must have saved a backup on the hard drive all those years ago

Aye I thought that

Magnificent result. Just like the Paterson years, a team that can take the knocks and come back Onwards to Alloa on Saturday