First off he sent his poems to Norman MacCaig (wonderful Scottish poet) in his teens and was then invited to tea to discuss and thereafter he kind of had Norman MaCaig (Norman MacCaig!) for something of a mentor. And then he wrote about it all in a book Kaizer Suzy gave to me as a welcome home present. Perfect welcome home present. And now after a few day road trip with Wayno (I shall refer here to friends henceforth only by their nicknames) which included a round of golf on the nine hole course on the island of Gigha I find that the man has also written a book about playing some regular and some obscure (in terms of geography) rounds of golf. Just as I had decided that my settling back in to the UK adventures might be to take all of the scottish ferries, visit all of the islands and where possible play all of the remote golf courses along the way.
I was toying with changing the name of my blog to capture my new adventures on new - old soil, but instead I shall set off on my adventures with the inauguration of three new labels. Specifically Scottish islands, Cal Mac (Caledonian MacBrayne ferries and Golf. Consider them inaugurated.
I'll be back soon with more about the island of Gigha.
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