Hebrides

Right.

A- and one of the things in Stargate that I find interesting too is, so they'll go discover a new planet, and there'll be a humans, humans on that planet that actually they've learned originated on Earth from like the Hebrides islanders, islands or something.

Hmm.

And they have like this name, but they don't even know that that's where they're from.

As has been said, both these birds are summer migrants, the nightingale arriving on our shores about the middle of April, the nightjar perhaps a fortnight later.

Henceforth, however, their programmes are wholly divergent, for whereas the nightjars proceed to scatter over the length and breadth of Britain, penetrating even to Ireland in the west and as far north as the Hebrides, the nightingale stops far short of these extremes, and leaves the whole countries of England, as well as probably the whole of Scotland and certainly the whole of Ireland, out of its calculations.

It is, however, well known that its range is slowly but surely extending towards the west.

This curiously restricted distribution of the nightingale, indeed, within the limits of its summer home is among the most remarkable of the many problems confronting the student of distribution.

In the following spring, Eric gave Torbjorn land on Stokhanis, where a goodly farmstead was founded, and there he lived thenceforward.

End of Part 1 Recording by Expatriate in Bangor, Maine part two of the saga of eric the red concerning leif the lucky and the introduction of christianity into greenland eric was married to a woman named thorhild and had two sons one of these was named thorstein and the other they were both promising men thorstein lived at home with his father and there was not at that time a man in greenland who was accounted of so great promise as he leif had sailed to norway where he was at the court of king olav When Leif sailed from Greenland in the summer, they were driven out of their course to the Hebrides.

It was late before they got fair winds thence, and they remained there far into the summer.

Leif became enamoured of a certain woman, whose name was Torguna.

Leif acknowledged his paternity, and some men will have it that this Torgils came to Iceland in the summer before the Frodo wonder.

However, this Torgils was afterwards in Greenland, and there seemed to be something not altogether natural about him before the end came.

Leif and his companions sailed away from the Hebrides and arrived in Norway in the autumn.

leif went to the court of king olav tryggvason he was well received by the king who felt that he could see that leif was a man of great accomplishments upon one occasion the king came to speech with leif and asked him is it thy purpose to sail to greenland in the summer it is my purpose said leif if it be your will i believe it will be well answers the king and thither thou shalt go upon my errand to proclaim christianity there leif replied that the king should decide but gave it as his belief that it would be difficult to carry this mission to a successful issue in greenland the king replied that he knew of no man who would be better fitted for this undertaking and in thy hands the cause will surely prosper this can only be said leif if i enjoy the grace of your protection leif put to sea when his ship was ready for the voyage for a long time he was tossed about upon the ocean and came upon lands of which he had previously had no knowledge there were self-sown wheat fields and vines growing there there were also those trees there which are called mausur and of all these they took specimens some of the timbers were so large that they were used in building leif found men upon a wreck and took them home with him and procured quarters for them all during the winter in this wise he showed his nobleness and goodness since he introduced christianity into the country and saved the men from the wreck and he was called leif the lucky ever after leif landed in ericsfirth and then went home to brattahild he was well received by everyone he soon proclaimed christianity throughout the land and the catholic faith and announced king olav tryggvason's messages to the people telling them how much excellence and how great glory accompanied this faith Erich was slow in forming the determination to forsake his old belief, but Theodhild embraced the faith promptly and caused the church to be built at some distance from the house.

Rose mocked him, Prue mocked him, Andrew, Jasper, Roger mocked him.

Even old Badger, without a tooth in his head, had bit him for being, as Nancy put it, the hundred and tenth young man to chase them all the way up to the Hebrides, when it was ever so much nicer to be alone.

Nonsense, said Mrs. Ramsey with great severity.

Apart from the habit of exaggeration which they had from her, and from the implication, which was true, that she asked too many people to stay, and had to lodge some in the town, she could not bear incivility to her guests, to young men in particular, who were as poor as church mice.

Its effect was to unite the nations of Western Europe in one great commonwealth.

What the Olympian chariot course and the Pythian oracle were to all the Greek cities, from Trebzenon to Marseilles, Rome and her bishop were to all Christians of the Latin Communion, from Calabria to the Hebrides.

Thus grew up sentiments of enlarged benevolence.

Races, separated from each other by seas and mountains, acknowledged a fraternal tie and a common code of public law.

In extent Scotland and Ireland were nearly equal to each other, and were together nearly equal to England, but were much less thickly peopled than England, and were very far behind England in wealth and civilization.

Scotland had been kept back by the sterility of her soil, and, in the midst of light, the thick darkness of the Middle Ages still rested on Ireland.

The population of Scotland, with the exception of the Celtic tribes which were thinly scattered over the Hebrides and over the mountainous parts of the northern shires, was of the same blood with the population of England, and spoke a tongue which did not differ from the purest English more than the dialects of Somersetshire and Lancashire differed from each other.

In Ireland, on the contrary, the population, with the exception of the small English colony near the coast, was Celtic, and still kept the Celtic speech and manners.

So in short, Lightly Peated with Dark Fruits.

Lightly peated because we're a Hebridean island.

We're not Islay, so not heavily peated or medicinal peat.

We're lightly peated, so barley's malted using highland peat, so we're looking more for that kind of fragrant wood smoke.

So going back to the book and starting life as a blender, it's very much designing a single malt distillery that can produce lots of different types of new make spirit that can then be matured and then brought back together.

So that's really where, when I talk about a recipe, it's that, it's bringing it back together and then having an oak policy.

So I do think, that we produce a distinctive Isle of Rassy Hebridean whisky, I think we do, but I'm not entirely sure that's all down to terroir.

I mean, obviously the Isle of Rassy barley, that first year we malted that with some Rassy peat, so that's definitely leaning more towards that.

I was one of the ones that got cut and it led me to be in the situation of, okay, this is two or three times now I've lost jobs.

Why don't I try to create my own job? So I created the company Closed Social Security based out in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

chose the most difficult place in the world to start a company because there's no market there, there's no economy there really.

And especially for a technology company where it's all hustle and bustle and meetings and conferences and stuff, I was flying backwards and forwards constantly.

And then you returned back to your former congregation, which is unusual in itself.

I'm really interested in the similarities and the differences that you found in the rural context, Hebridean, and also deep city centre.

Yeah, it is a fascinating journey that we've been on.

And one of the things that's interesting, I checked this a few months ago on Google Maps, that if you take Edinburgh Castle as the centre of our capital city, as the crow flies, St. Columbus is the closest.