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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Scot now living in Slovenia. #ScotsAbroad Semi-retired internet consultant, chess player and administrator, landscape photographer, guitarist, Dorothy Dunnett commentator. http://www.dorothydunnett.co.uk

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

An added bonus was that I got very bad Hay Fever in the so-called Scottish summer. Here I found the pollen didn't bother me at all.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

Well there was also the numerous holiday where we were rained out eg Arran 12 days of torrential rain out of 14. The next year we came here for the first time - sunshine, warmth, stunning scenery, lovely people, cheap and good wine, and no midges! Was an easy sell really and the dream was born.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

We should be able to do copyright strikes!

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1h

Jerott was somewhat lighter and more humorous in tone, though the extracts and descriptions were no less valid. Hope you liked the pictures of possible candidates 😉
I think there was an attempt at indexing but I'm not sure if it's accessible. Ask Suzanne, the editor. She'll know.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 2h

Sadly they rather liked me. One of the reasons I started coming over here!

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 2h

Yes I remember reading about that, and the horrific mouth and throat cancers that resulted from it. And of course medicine at the time was ill-equipped to help. Truely awful.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 4h

All EU members must sign up to the ECHR, because it is a legal obligation under the Treaty of Lisbon. So of course parties in England who don't want the UK to rejoin the EU would much prefer we left it.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 17h

There was a beach near Dalgety Bay in Fife which was found to be contaminated with Radium - believed to have come from poor recycling of glow-in-the-dark instrument panels from aircraft. Needed multiple clean-up jobs.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 17h

Distinctly non-trivial. They can reduce tough forestry workers to tears and greatly reduce outdoor working capacity in those areas.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 17h

Yay for Strontium, which was used in glass-making, and the village - not so Yay for S 90 which got into kid's bones by replacing Calcium and was a major health scare at the time, but at least encouraged the test ban treaties..

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact, the element Strontium was named after the little village of Strontian, after it was discovered in the mineral Strontianite in lead mines in the area.
The radioactive isotope Strontium 90 was notoriously released by nuclear tests and contaminated the milk supply worldwide.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 19h

...and they're just Plague number 2...

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Used to often take the ferry to Morven and visit a hotel in Strontian which is about half way to Ardnamurchan. Went to the lighthouse with dad once when he was consulting on the windows, and got to climb up to the light room. The views were amazing.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, have driven through Onich many times, usually on the way to the ferry.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember which sea loch?

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Contrasts depending on which direction you look from Kosec in the afternoon.

Autumn colours against dark mountain clouds. Kosec, Slovenia

Old barn pillar framing the view to Dreznica

Late afternoon autumn view over Dreznica

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who's watched an Oban sunset from Pulpit hill or chased it along the road from Loch Awe, or stood at Arisaig or Ardnamurchan and looked out to Rum and Eigg - they never forget it.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

With good cause - the West Highlands are a delight (except midges). Infinitely variable, every corner turned producing a new vista or microcosm. It was always my preferred part - from Arrocher to Plockton and the Bealach nan Ba (Torridon and the NW are great too but in a more dramatic way.)

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

If I hold one here in the mountains of Slovenia I fear (fear??) that I'll have the Talisker bottle all to myself.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Just find a Boston book discusson group and post "Lymond - which child died?" and they'll appear like magic 😉

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Tried this one?
scottishscran.com/traditional-...

Traditional Homemade Scottish Tablet Recipe

This traditional Scottish tablet recipe is made easy with a few helpful hints! It's easy to make Scottish tablet at home if you follow these steps.

scottishscran.com

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Old Scottish saying - If the tablet didn't come out right add more sugar!

And order some Orkney Fudge Ice-Cream - your name will go down in legend.

Could also try Cranachan. That usually goes down well.

Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

We'll just give them Tablet and more Millionaire's Shortbread and they'll be too sugar-rushed to notice!

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha. Good job - the Lord Lyon King of Arms might have sent out the goons to have you arrested for faking a coat of arms!

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 1d

😆😆 Well thistles or unicorns would be the conventional answer, but hey, porridge oats and haggis would be a suitable culinary alternative.
I'm told you can only get tinned haggis in the US, but I'm sure the kids would have preferred the millionaire's shortbread!

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