Caithness

Read by Jessa Mills.

Donald Bain, son of Duncan, and Caithness, nobleman of Scotland.

Read by Frances Brown.

Macduff, Nobleman of Scotland.

The country near Dunsinane.

Drum and colors.

Enter Menteeth, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, and Soldiers.

the english power is near led on by malcolm his uncle siward and the good macduff revenge is burdened them for their dear causes would to the bleeding and the grim alarm excite the mortified man

Fully to describe the great works which the mature engineer constructed in the Highland region would take up more space than could be allotted to such a subject anywhere save in a complete industrial history of roads and traveling in modern Britain.

It must suffice to say that when Telford took the matter in hand, the vast block of country north and west of the great Glen of Caledonia which divides the Highlands in two between Inverness and Ben Nevis, a block comprising the counties of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, Cromarty, and half Inverness had literally nothing within it worthy of being called a road.

Wheeled carts or carriages were almost unknown and all burdens were conveyed on packhorses, or worse still, on the broad backs of Highland lassies.

The people lived in small scattered villages, and communications from one to another were well-nigh impossible.

First he bridged the broad River Tay at Dunkeld so as to allow of a direct route straight into the very jaws of the Highlands.

Then he also bridged over the Beauly at Inverness so as to connect the opposite sides of the great glen with one another.

Next, he laid out a number of trunk lines running through the country on both banks to the very north of Caithness and the very west of the Isle of Skye.

Whoever to this day travels on the main thoroughfares in the greater Scottish islands, in Arran, Islay, Jura, Mull, or in the wild peninsula of Morven and the land of Lorn, or through the rugged regions of Inverness-shire and Ross-shire where the railway has not yet penetrated, travels throughout on Telford's roads.

They're fresh mission fields now.

So places like Caithness and the Highland region there, and even some of the homes in Lewes.

And recognising that to serve these communities now, it's going to be a struggle for these congregations to be able to support a full-time pastor.

But there are people there, there's precious people there that we need to reach.

According to the National Trust for Scotland's Arran Ranger Service, Kilbrannon Sound and the Firth of Clyde have seen a surge in numbers of humpback and minke whales, as well as common dolphins.

Further afield, in May, more than 30 orcas were spotted swimming past Caithness, while in April, a walrus hauled itself ashore in Orkney before embarking on a wee coastal tour.

This means that, statistically, you have more chance of seeing a walrus in the seas than an on-time and in-budget Kalmak ferry, given the state of the network.

I, of course, made that last bit up for comic effect, but the current state of the ferry network is no laughing matter for hard-pressed island communities.

I think as well...

I mean management's a hard job anyway but I do think the WEC job is particularly challenging in that you're probably fishing in a more limited pool in terms of you're working with the players and they obviously have a few for Orkney but you're working with those sort of Caithness based players maybe the odd one or two for Sutherland but basically what you've got in Caithness and if you can get a couple for Orkney a couple for Sutherland and you know it goes through spells where like if maybe there's a generation of players that are really good you can be strong and maybe if you've spells where the quality isn't quite there then you're probably weaker and you've just got to sort of work the best you can within that another side of that is you can maybe have quality players but because of the sort of traveling required to play for a week in every second game generally being a fairly length bar barbora every other game generally being a fairly lengthy away trip you know some people can't commit to that for whatever reason so there's maybe players you know at times it's hard to get the commitment so it's a tough job and I think Gary's you know he's certainly given it his all and I think he's done again this season hasn't been the start they would want but he's given it his all and as he said after Saturday's game well personally I think he's done a good job but as he said after Saturday's game as bad as the start's maybe been this season still time for them to turn it around they're still in the North of Scotland Cup still in the Highland League Cup Scottish Cup still to come and they can pick up in the league so there's still a lot to play for there and I mean in terms of the win on Saturday it was Aidan Reid got his first goal for the club he's somebody who's sort of played in the North Caledonian League who I think Wick have liked for quite a while but going about commitment he's never quite felt he's been in that position to go and commit to playing for the club or wanting to do it but he has now decided to come in and they feel he'll be a good addition at centre half going forward and overall I think by the sounds of things they were worth their win certainly dominated the first half could have been further ahead and Forrest, Stephen Macdonald had no complaints really about the outcome he felt the Cancans didn't play well enough to justify anything for the game the only thing that did rankle him and I haven't seen it I could totally understand why was he thought that Gordie McNabb should have been sent off for a wick in the second half for a second bookable offence because he had a yellow and then Josh Taylor's just sort of gone past him and been tripped and the referee David Ross is right in front of him and doesn't book him and it's one of you know you're not saying that changes the outcome but those things do make a difference and would give Forrest a boost and it was one of them I thought absolutely nailed on if he hadn't already been booked he would have been booked so that was that was something that sort of stuck in Forrest's craw a wee bit and I could understand why because it's

you know

consistency is kind of what you're looking for with referees

Read by Jessa Mills.

Donald Bain, son of Duncan, and Caithness, nobleman of Scotland.

Read by Frances Brown.

Macduff, nobleman of Scotland.

A specter rises from a well in The History of Jack Smith or The Castle of St. Donat and shakes its hoary head at a group of men who fire pistols at it.

The Castle of Caithness shows a murdered father indicating his wounds to his son and demanding vengeance.

An armored revenge ghost appears in Count Roderick's Castle or Gothic Times, an anonymous Philadelphia novel, telling his son the manner of his murder and scaring the king, who has killed him, to madness.

The revenge ghosts in the Gothic do not cry, "Vindicta," as frequently as in the early drama, but they are as relentless in their hate.

The devil in Zofloya, at Victoria's request, gives Henrique an enchanted drug which renders him temporarily insane, during which time he marries Victoria, imagining her to be Leila, whom he loves.

When he awakens to the realization of what he has done, real madness drives him to suicide.

In The Castle of Caithness, the wicked misanthrope goes mad from remorse.

He imagines that the different ones he has murdered are hurling him into the pit of hell, until in a maniac frenzy he dashes his brains out against the prison walls.

And then there was a folk festival and I was a bit gutted.

I just thought like, ah, but then I said, I remember driving through Caithness and the, and the landscape's so similar.

Uh, and actually I think it worked out better for us.

I mean, having said that, you know, I adore Orkney and I would love to show up here, but, um, Keith Ness gave us a lot of everything we needed, perhaps with less kind of to less people around as well.