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So, today I hit no wildlife with my car. I did spend a fair amount of time driving slowly while sheep got off the road in front of me, but that was okay with me - if not with the bloke in the car behind me, who leaned on his horn for literally over five minutes solid and flashed his lights at me a lot - especially when I stopped completely.
While a couple of dozen sheep that had been blocking the entire road cleared out of the way.
Unfortunately for him, my car is fairly soundproof and my mood was fairly mellow.
Speaking of my car: the Audi A4 has some seriously good stability when faced with major side-winds - it doesn't even wobble even when facing some very, very strong winds, as it did when driving along the northern coast of Caithness.
I toured around Caithness and Sutherland a bit - the main tourist attraction-type spot I went to was the Shin Falls, in Sutherland.
Tonight I got to my lodgings - a guest house overlooking the Ness in Inverness - before sunset, the better to have a restful, relaxing evening. (I'm kind of planning to watch Question Time tonight, despite the whole Nick Griffin thing, mind you.)
Later tonight: A photo post, since I've actually got some time this evening to do that.Current Location: Inverness, Scotland
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If you have time to kill and wish to look at photos, then here: 350 photos of Scotland, once they finish uploading.
They were batch-resized, so only one of them has actually been renamed (Macbeth's Hillock, because the name is part of what makes it interesting), and some of them haven't resized flawlessly, but if you want to see pictures of Scotland: go to.
At some point I'll be posting highlights and selections and more carefully resized versions of my favourites, but this is the whole lot, absent various photos that feature family things and the like.Current Location: Inverness, Scotland
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Should I go to Northern Ireland? There are ferries from Ayrshire.
ETA: Watching Question Time. Seeing Nick Griffin try to deal with an intelligent black woman sitting next to him making astute comments without exploding: kind of funny.
ETA2: I wish I could remember the African-American writer woman's name. She's not only brilliant, but she has the best can he actually be saying this in public, what the *fuck* face I have EVER SEEN.
Jack Straw is arguing pretty well. The Tory woman - who is herself a Muslim - is a bit too quiet, although in fairness, given her rather tight expression, she may be having difficulty composing a spontaneous reply that the BBC would be permitted to air.
... of course, as soon as I typed that, she starts excoriating him and simultaneously defending both Islam and Christianity.
Oh hey, African-American writer woman - Bonnie something - speaks up to cut through the argument and make a clear point. This is clearly not her first time in Racism 101. Then Dimbleby un-derails things the rest of the way, although I doubt it will last.
Dimbleby has a very polite way of saying "answer the fucking question".
ETA3: Bonnie Greer. I have never heard of her before I read the profile of these panellists, but she is freakin' awesome.
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