Different Types Of Swallow

04/23/2006

A couple of brief lines this blustery Sunday morning as my bags are packed and I am off to Orkney via a stay with Islay at Thrumster tonight. I have a kind invitation to The Highland Park distillery who are upset at my constant mention of The Ardbeg. Dearest Dottie and I are also long overdue a visit to The Creel at St Margaret’s Hope. Therefore, a mini-break it is, particularly before the roads are thick with tourists and juice for the poor old motor tops £1.50 a litre. We plan to return in the early hours of Friday the 28th, however, I have not managed to swallow my current mobile and the number remains unchanged.

I am going to use my break wisely as I have been talked into the most super new agricultural idea; namely tobacco crops, so I have a lot of reading and note talking to concentrate on. Apparently, a legal fortune is there for the asking.

The weather remains changeable, but definitely warmer with a high of 15 degrees, although 10 degrees or so is the norm. Our first swallow swoops around the Tower of Glen Trollaigh, skylarks sing their hearts out, lambs cavort and owls hoot. The sap of spring is definitely rising. Yours aye, Archie, The Baron Trollaigh.