The Vital Spark

Those of you who have been following the route which I am tracing from Campbeltown to Glasgow will realise that we are now heading towards Inveraray. When I was thinking about that, it occurred to me that Campbeltown, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Inveraray etc - man, they were aal chust the haunts of Para Handy himsel'. I dug out an old collection of Para Handy stories - in an inglorious school career I did not win many prizes, but I did win this - in primary 7 - and it has stayed with me for the intervening 40 years You can take it that I will now bore readers of the blog with copious quotations from the bold Captain. One I can remember after forty years, without even looking it up, is Para Handy at Campbeltown bemoaning the highly unusual very hot weather, "I wish I wass a fush"