Welcome to Graham McColl who has joined this week, plus a belated but never-the-less warm welcome to Muriel and to "j1m2r3" who joined in the middle of July - their subscription messages got caught up in the Lists2 problems. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** Running late this week, as we have the painters in, and I have spent the morning engaged in activities that might, in past times, have found me fronting the Kirk Session for "breaking the Sabbath". ****** ****** ****** With the zero response so far to the August topic of "Island memories", can I take it that there are no subscribers who used to live in the shire before 1974 - whether as Brandanes (Island of Bute), or whatever the nickname for Arran or Cumbrae residents might have been ? ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook <cookfmly@bigpond.com> List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara <babrown12@comcast.net> of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.