Conan, we’re simple folk up there. Daubenton’s are too expensive, too rich for our blood. And our blood is too high a proof for them.

Primal – I don’t even think there’s a word for anal in scottish Gaelic, unless it’s the same as the word for pious. There are any number of Irish Gaelic sites but just a very few Scottish Gaelic dictionaries online. What with the millions we pour into keeping the language alive every year, you’d have thought someone could have come up with something better on line than a school dictionary (which I’ve jsut found out I’ve been forbidden further access to!!!).

Bock, horseback riding? Only at the trot.

Vincent, chickens have thighs!

Mary, no they’re not all like that, but there’s no harm in a bit of grossly unfair blanket characterizations now and again, is there?

Pat, it is lovely here, but oh so hot, too too hot for me. It’s a Spanish name from back when California was Spanish, so it’s pronounced Oh-hi.

Belleek, on quiet evenings, as plumes of peat smoke curl lazily into the air, who knows what’s going on behind Hebridean doors. In recent years i’ve learnt it’s not always pretty.

Nick ‘ Ojai, California. It’s full of spirituality and surrounded by incredibly beautiful mountains. Krishnamurti lived here,and it was the place where the Shangri-La of Lost Horizon was said to be filmed.’

Gosh Sam you have the luck! And is it called Ojai after orange juice?

I’ll see your pipistrelles with some Daubenton’s.

Rand, so that’s why I was getting all these hits from Google searches for “sheep wellie, thigh, lamp chop” hits. I don’t know. I’ve always liked you, Rand, but I never had you down for a wool merchant…

Kara, I’m sorry, toots! I don’t know what I did there. I think I assumed I had already answered them somehow. I dunno! Certainly no harm meant, darling!