Monday, May 03, 2010

Day trip to Eilean Donan

To Eilean Donan
With Andrew, Simone and Gerardo

20 comments:

Kate said...

Looks cold- when does Spring sping up there?

Livia said...

Any day now. Probably.

Cecilia said...

It was not really cold though there was a frost one night.

Kate said...

So- how was Eilean?

Cecilia said...

Chasing swans.

Esther said...

come come, swans are definitely Good Things - even if they have been very Upped

Cecilia said...

Of course, Highland ones aren't at all uppish, even though they are all actually disguised princesses.

Esther said...

right, we need to add that into the scenario about the corrie - Scots please explain what is so dire about corries? is that where you get changed into princesses? or is it where the horses hid (but I thought they were to do with free water, hence the attack on the wheel)

Cecilia said...

The Corries? Well, some people thought their singing was rather naff. Where did the reference to them come in?

Janet said...

The Corries were quite jolly to sing along to in the car until the tape got mangled. All together now "Come fill up my cup, Come fill up my can, Come saddle my horses and call out my men..."

Livia said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx1xeZo_tk

Livia said...

There is a picture saying "Stay Out Of The Corries". Obviously they only need two of them, so the land owner is politely letting people down who might be keen to join.

Cecilia said...

But where is the corrie scenario? I can't find it. We need an index to these comments.

Cecilia said...

I can't remember which Corrie is which; but I would like to point out to my detractors that I harmonise at least as well as the hairy one.

Janet said...

They have quite clearly caught fire at the end of the clip as there is loads of smoke.
But the hairy one is singing melody in this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av2-A-igOJk&feature=related

Cecilia said...

Hah. I have been stalking them through YouTube since Livy gave us that link, too. What about their Bricklayer's Song, a version of Hoffnung's story?

Livia said...

That would be on my blog:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27155726&postID=8744754412156073625

Cecilia said...

People who read Buchan know why you have to stay out of the corries.

Esther said...

"our intrepid explorers, having strayed by accident into a corrie,were being chased by the Falkirk wheel horses (who had sabotaged the wheel in order to get their freedom by adjusting it to cut itself up) but were shown the way to escape by the underwater bridge by 3 giant swans

or not as the case may be"

copied from Day Trip to Glenelg where there is the warning against corries

Cecilia said...

Well, of course, usually it is huge herds of deer that are using the corries; but I supposed flighty horses are likely, too. We keep meaning to start subscribing to the Oban Times in order to keep abreast of the latest outrages in the chasing of deer from one estate to another.