Little Cumbrae - No More!

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Little Cumbrae - No More!

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Shocker-ooni!

According to The Times Online Little Cumbrae is now to be called Gie's Peace Island. Well. Whatever next.

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The chart I use calls it "South Coombe Island". Only those who have studied assiduously will understand this!
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When I first read Donalds post I thought it said 'Gie's a pie' island
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Good job it's no' Dundee, or it would be a peh!
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Rowana wrote:Good job it's no' Dundee, or it would be a peh!
Would that be a "mince peh an' a ingin' een an ah?"
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marisca wrote:The chart I use calls it "South Coombe Island". Only those who have studied assiduously will understand this!
Hmmm RYA Mock-ups?

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Aja wrote:Hmmm RYA Mock-ups?
Indeed. They've set the Cumbraes down in a resized English Channel IIRC. "Not to be used for navigation."
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Silkie wrote: "Not to be used for navigation."
Damn, so it's back to the AA road map book, then.
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