A few comments on Alec Logan's paragraph and photograph.1 His latitude and longitude, I’m sure, are immaculate and the exquisite pink flowers are Thrift or Sea Pink (Armeria maritima), that grow in great profusion on the Hebridean coasts in summer. The loch pictured however, is Lochmaddy, not Locheport and the hill is Eaval, not Heaval, that every BJGP reader must know is on the island of Barra! I agree with nomenclature, that almost every hill in the Outer Hebrides has the Norse suffix –val (fjall or Fell). I was born and lived there, until I left for the first time aged 15 to further my schooling. I appreciate his kind remarks about my native isle and wish him many happy returns.
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