Dunoon

I'm all for ferries.

It's just, I just think it's like, if you've got Western ferries who can do a good service there in the Firth of Clyde, and you've got local guys from Dunoon employed, that's great.

And to your point about local seafarers, a lot of the guys in CalMac are not even from Scotland.

They're basically coming up from down south.

it was ruined.

Yes, there was drinking in the streets of Dunoon, but the party atmosphere was amazing.

I believe a low-key Cowell Games still goes ahead, but it will never be as good as its heyday.

Nostalgia overload.

Absolutely, absolutely.

And then on, keeping on the sort of parkrun theme, I noticed that you were over in Dunoon the other weekend as well, sporting the Ochrardr 10k t-shirt.

Oh, thank you.

But it was just a quick chance to plug the Scottish Park Run's YouTube that you feature in from time to time.

Yeah, put some audience in his direction.

But it's good to check it out and it's just a nice wee refreshing way to see those new additions to it do you collect park runs are you one of these park run

um yeah well going to Dunoon that was my uh my 99th different park run event that I've been to so it's it's a park run thing to like get to 100 and I'll keep going after that I'm still still trying to get around all the events in Scotland but I've got five or six still to go but it's all really awkward to get to ones like Thurisaw and Shetland and Orkney and Stornoway but I'll I'll get there eventually maybe once I retire and I've got more time

what a cruise itinerary you've just sort of said there isn't it that would be great what just go and do those five in five different

We can't say from, from, uh, sunny Florida.

We're from sunny Dunoon.

Similar, John.

That's similar.

And, you know, you've obviously got John and a busload of the boys going up there tonight, and they want to see a positive performance.

And as we said earlier on, I think home form is going to be crucial to try and nick one of they two top spots.

Is this a regular thing, John? Is this a group of you from Dunoon that come up to all the games or certainly a lot of them?

them?Yes, well, we-- well, because of the ferry times, they, um, we have to get past or get back home, the rest be thankful.

And then when I was, uh, I was conceived in Ballater, I think, but then my father was with the Forestry Commission, so he was placed in the West Conservancy, all over the Western Highlands.

So I was born in, I, w- by the, by the time I was, I, uh, they, they, they married in Ballater, and within about a year, I was born near Dunoon in a wee- Oh, yeah ... place called Glenbranter- Uh-huh ...

in Argyll, where my father was for a few years.

And then the Forestry Commission kept moving he on.

Mm-hmm.

So, um, we moved then to Strathaire in Perthshire.

And Dunoon, uh, you know, um, that area was the Gaeltacht, and so I heard the sounds around me all the time- Mm ... of voices that were doing this, and when they were speaking English, this is how they were speaking.

So the speaking was very sing-song.

And I know how you love Scotland.

I got married in Scotland in a little tiny castle in Dunoon, Scotland on the Firth of Clyde.

Are there tiny castles in Scotland? I didn't know that existed.

This one was, yeah, it was not a 1600.

Stephen says he's looking svelte.

And then we saw you in Dunoon.

I'm sure you chased Stephen up that body promenade, did you not? In Dunoon.

Yeah.

I looked on it, because I thought I'd lost you, right? Because we ran for a couple of miles.

the fire track.

I was just freaking grump.

Well, Steve and I were talking about that, about Dunoon, about the underfoot.

And the, where is it? Where, where, where, where is my thing? There's a special, yeah, here, for grade 4B.

So, Dunoon Argyll.

uh one at the grade 4b and it was a really kind of special one for them because this was this was actually their first one since their chairman died their chairman passed away not too long ago and it just so happened that they won the competition straight after their chairman passed away so that was a really special one for them really amazing

and obviously our thoughts go out to the families we are not going to take the piss out of that no absolutely not So, yeah, well done to Dunan and Argyle.