Lisa, As an ex lightkeeper myself (Copinsay while in Orkney) I'm wondering if I know your cousin Regards, Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Conrad" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Highland Cattle > > {> on 9/18/07 7:37 PM <} Tuck wrote -- > > All > > If "muckle" means big, then what does "flugga" mean, as in Muckle > Flugga, the northernmost point in the UK? > _____________ > > I looked in a book I have, "IT's a Long Way to Muckle Flugga - Journeys in > Northern Scotland" [by W.R. Mitchell], to see if "flugga" was defined .... > no luck there. I'm not sure what it means. > > I have a cousin who was the keeper at the lighthouse there (during the > time > when keepers were still needed) ... I could try emailing him to ask him, > Tuck, if you are still wondering? > > - Lisa > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

All, We went to Copinsay last visit to Orkney, and climbed the lighthouse (as we also did on North Ronaldsay). It is gorgeous, both for the view, and the lenses and mirrors themselves. Have any of you read the book about the Stevenson family of lighthouse builders, in which Robert Louis was the odd one out, the dreamer and teller of stories? I am sure many of you have. It's fascinating. Most of the really difficult ones were built by them. Thanks for the info on Muckle Flugga which is indeed the rock off the northern tip of Unst in Shetland, and is the northernmost point in the UK. That makes for a good trivia question. While in Cuckfield, just south of Gatwick last week spending the night before coming hoome we came across a snicket named Mytten Twytten. What a fun name. I supose there is an explanation, but I have no idea what it might be. Tuck On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Ron Ireland wrote: > Lisa, > As an ex lightkeeper myself (Copinsay while in Orkney) I'm > wondering if I > know your cousin > Regards, Ron. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lisa Conrad" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:43 PM > Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Highland Cattle > > >> >> {> on 9/18/07 7:37 PM <} Tuck wrote -- >> >> All >> >> If "muckle" means big, then what does "flugga" mean, as in Muckle >> Flugga, the northernmost point in the UK? >> _____________ >> >> I looked in a book I have, "IT's a Long Way to Muckle Flugga - >> Journeys in >> Northern Scotland" [by W.R. Mitchell], to see if "flugga" was >> defined .... >> no luck there. I'm not sure what it means. >> >> I have a cousin who was the keeper at the lighthouse there (during >> the >> time >> when keepers were still needed) ... I could try emailing him to >> ask him, >> Tuck, if you are still wondering? >> >> - Lisa > > > >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message