24. Jun, 2022
A Georgian Game for Children putting Scotland on the Map.
I have added a page to my website titled "Wallis Game 1892". I used an image of the game in my book, The Immeasurable Wilds, as the game so nicely depicts exactly how cut off the NW Highlands were at that time. I thought it worth showing the map in more detail on this website as it is an attractive and 'fun' item, though I doubt whether children of the twenty-second century would find it all that engrossing!
I am off next week to the far north. A geological trip to the Stack of Glencoul has been arranged, which I am greatly looking forward to. Kylesku is one of my favourite spots in the far north-west, the charm of its magnificent scenery greatly enhanced by the thought of the Clarke family who Daniell visited on Loch Glendhu. He feared they would be a gloomy lot, so dark was the region at that end of the loch, and he was so delighted to find them a welcoming family full of interest and energy. For more on this, you will need to read Daniell's account - or my book!
Of course Glencoul is also famous for its geology, and it is that evidence of the Moine thrust that we are going to look for. It is fitting that such a magnificent setting as that found at Kylesku should hold some of the most interesting geology in the world.
I will be back, looking for things that interest me, at least, in my collection when I return in mid-July. I hope some of what I have written about interests you too, and thank you for visiting my website. Alastair Mitchell.