snorbens_caleyman

Spot on You've just disembarked from the boat...

Took less than a minute OK - another of my Dad's, from 1987. Have checked it against more recent pictures, and with the wee yellow man.

A quick think, enter some search terms into Google, find an image, confirm with the wee yellow man... ... and we're on the A835 just north of Elphin.

Have just checked their rules and regs dated 30 Sep 2020, and that's NOT in there. https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/SPFL Rules and Regulations 30-Sep-20 (MASTER COPY B) CLEAN.pdf

I thought you could watch it, with the commentary at low volume? Which is surely not a bad thing

As an exile and a non-season ticket holder, I'd be happy to pay per match for all games. There were over 500 watching the friendly at Nairn. There IS an audience out there.

In a cinema you can't catch covid from the thespians declaiming loudly in front of you

Did you try to topple him while you were up there?

Seven goals in two consecutive games. Ever been done before?

Thanks! But could you tell them that moving pictures have been invented?

Could someone nip down to Station Park and put a shilling in the meter, please?

Woooo - yes! I vaguely remember him saying that that pylon was part of something like a radar station that was there at the time - it looks very like the old Chain Home antennae - and that he really shouldn't have included it in the photograph.

I hadn't put the name on it, so that someone else could have a go. Never mind... Here's one my Dad's from 1954 or thereabouts.

Staggies Supporters' Club Away Day?

Badbea clearances monument, Caithness.

Hang on, I'll just search Scotland using Google Earth. I might be some time...

The hills in the background suggested to me somewhere on the Moray Firth coast. So I've just taken a quick trip along the coastlines with Google Earth, looking for that distinctive harbour layout. It's Balintore.

https://www.ft.com/content/0243c597-c32c-4cfa-8632-097e8393d229 Mid-July: "A FT analysis of Premier League matches played “behind closed doors” since games resumed last month suggests, if anything, home teams are performing better than before the pandemic". Don't know if there is anything more recent.

I had no idea. But after your clue, I searched for "two doors", "church", "significant" and (I can't quite remember) probably "western isles". Looked at the images returned, and there it was. I had no idea that Telford had designed churches, so thank you for that!

Thank you! Two separate villages, apparently. Whisky country. And there is a connection to Caley - and I do mean just Caley. Though it's not unique to this church.

Well done - that's it! Ben Stack has a very distinctive outline, but nearly all photographs are taken from the north or north-west - which might make you think that I had reversed it, again. But I found this one below, which is labelled "Ben Stack from Meallan Liath Beag", which is about 17km away SE of Ben Stack. It's clear that my Dad was on almost the same bearing from Ben Stack. From the map, I realised that he was much closer, on the high ground to the SE of Loch na Mucnaich at the bottom right of the map below. The 719m peak of Ben Stack is at the top left. On the shore of Lock Stack beside Airdachuilinn, above the centre of the map, is the house where my Dad's uncle and later his cousin stayed when they were head gamekeepers on the estate there. It's an area that he loved.

Might get a few teams moaning about the early start they will have to make.

I am 99+% sure of it. Most modern photographs of this place are from a different angle, but I'm sure that this one this time isn't reversed, if that's what you're getting at Because a) I have seen some modern photos from the same angle, and b) it's from a print, not a transparency. I have also worked out where my father took it from, and it makes sense to me. Not that I can see from the map. Haven't been that way myself for a while.

OK, mountain men, here's one of my Dad's photographs, from 1947. Though I don't think it has changed much... Interesting damage at the top - almost mirrors the mountain.