Category Archives: Stuart France

Callanish Calling: Port Uig…

* I have fond memories of Holyhead and the ferry to Dublin. * These may, it is true, be now rose-tinted by time, but I am sure that there is a pub in which we enjoyed lunch and a couple … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Millennial Stone…

* After our sojourn at the Off Road Inn we tried Portree again but although we managed to get a park this time, as we prepared to exit our Red-Pill-Box, the heavens opened… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Callanish Calling: Riddle…

* Back in the relative sanctuary of our Red-Pill-Box, Wen looked at me hopefully and said, “You did make a note of the riddle didn’t you?” * “As it is all that now stands between us and oblivion, my dearest … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Way-Stone…

* Given that, by all accounts, the Way-Stone was capable of getting us to the morn, we wasted no time in putting the question… * And were met with a road length peal of laughter, quite light and silvery it … Continue reading

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Which Doctor?… Stuart France

* “Look, it’s Doctor Who!” “That’s not Doctor Who.” “I thought you liked Doctor Who?” “I do, but that’s not him, it’s just an actor!” * The actor in question was John Pertwee, who played The Doctor between January 1970 … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Gnomes…

* …And he is not just horrible to us, even the gnomes, that used to inhabit the Heart of the Isle, fled to the coast to hurl themselves into the sea. * Some of the gnomes though thought better of … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Fingers of Stone…

* Not only is the Old Man of Storr hurling more water at us than we can shake a weather-vane at… * He is also depriving us of food, and drink, and shelter. * Not one of the food waggons … Continue reading

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Considering Heaven and Earth… ~ Stuart France

* First a formless mass of light, then the firmament of stars, then sun and moon, then sea and land, then reptiles, and birds, then beasts, and man, and then, contemplation… * If the ‘candlestick vision’ which opens the Book … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Threshold…

* Anyway, Wen was wrong… It’s not a ‘reckie’ we’re on, it’s a raid! * But before we can ‘plunder’ Lewis of her treasury of stone, we have to get past the Dweller… * There is some debate over what … Continue reading

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Callanish Calling: Isle of Skye…

* Somewhat fortuitously we got the last room in practically the last B&B on the mainland. * Pictish art, courtesy of our landlady, Christine, greeted us in the porch. * We had proper coffee in the bedroom, a great view, … Continue reading

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