Dave (see Happy! for 6/29) and the lovely Miss Liz Dyer (now the lovely Liz Dyer Love) fell out with the Youth Hostle system. Not the least about dopey rules. So he went into competition with them, starting his own international hostle system (under the aegis of the Forestry people) and eventually built the system up to a total of one hostle. That's surely where you were. A combination, mountineering/mountain rescue and folksong place where the two would have fine nightly ceilidhs.

Auchna- something, near Torridon. Way up. 6 of us went up there, squoze somehow into crazy Angus' 3-wheel motorized scooter. A raging mountain gale when we arrived - couldn't see 10 feet. The Ancient One got blowed into a ditch. But inside was a pleasure.

Best was a pig sitting at the top of the Christmas tree, staring into the wind. Auchnasheen? Or maybe that was where his RR Crossing Watch job & the Youth Hostle was.

Good website & yes, I'm also pleased he's still going strong. Sadly, the lovely Liz quit singing years ago. But I still sing her versions of Calico Printer's Clerk & Tailor's Breeches.