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Ocklepoint
 Post subject: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:25 pm 
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Hope to be leaving Bowling on Monday.............the bird has now flown.

Stornoway by Thursday 12th July, Barra by 27th July.

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Nick
 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:00 pm 
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I've had that genoa in the back of my living room you know . . . .

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Ocklepoint
 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:16 pm 
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Talking of your living room, I still await the proper presentation of the C John Taylor tea towels.................... a burgee competition some years ago. They should be very valuable collectors items by now. Perhaps over a pint somewhere?

The genoa is still a fine sail, its a shame the main is such a mishapen rag
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ubergeekian
 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:12 pm 
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Ocklepoint wrote:
Talking of your living room, I still await the proper presentation of the C John Taylor tea towels.................... a burgee competition some years ago. They should be very valuable collectors items by now.

There used to be one with the music to his "famous waltz", Islands of Beauty. It had anywhere between 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 beats to the bar, distributed more or less at random. I wish I'd bought one.

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Ocklepoint
 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:52 pm 
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Is his wonderful emporium still there by the ferry to Easedale?
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Is his wonderful emporium still there by the ferry to Easedale?

Answer required urgently; we have guests arriving from the south tomorrow; I wouldn't don't want to misrepresent that corner of Argyll on the journey there.

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 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:50 pm 
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Yes, still there.

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 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
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Yes, still there.

Just Seil and Inveraray survive, I see. How many were there at the height of the empire? I can remember one in Oban and I am pretty sure he had an outlet at Luss as well.

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ubergeekian wrote:
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Yes, still there.

Just Seil and Inveraray survive, I see. How many were there at the height of the empire? I can remember one in Oban and I am pretty sure he had an outlet at Luss as well.


I'm fairly sure there was one at Calander too. Not that I was ever in it, you understand...

If visiting the tat emporium on Seil, one of the highlights is the "his 'n' her's" chastity belts displayed on a wall with absolutely no explanation near the end of the tour. :)

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ash
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:54 pm 
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Hope to be leaving Bowling on Monday............

I had coffee aboard a FCYC boat in the basin at Bowling last Monday, 25 June. She has popped through to the west for a few days. I know her skipper through work.

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 Post subject: Re: Say hallo
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DaveS wrote:
I'm fairly sure there was one at Calander too. Not that I was ever in it, you understand...


Most odd. It's there (and so is Luss) if you go to this link

http://www.highlandarts.com/galleries/c ... /index.php

but not if you go through the main website.

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