Where Was I? 5/8

[goodgoalie]

No need to look anything up this week - recognised the island straight away. When I was 15, a friend and I set off to walk round the island clockwise, but only got halfway and decided to stay camping in a 'black' village. We eventually gave up on our circumnavigation, and hitched back to the port (begins with B) on just about the only other road, one that crosses the middle. Have also played a few times in three of the village halls - many moons ago!

[goodgoalie]

Nobody doing it this week? Flonska? Tilly?

[Toorak]

I spent my holidays on the island as a child (and went back in my 20s) so, like you, identified it immediately

[goodgoalie]

Brought back a huge amount of memories. Surprised he hasn't used the island before; but he might have - I've only been doing it since 1999!

[Toorak]

When a child we used to holiday in L ( facing the first island). In the 80s my father went every year to another B (on the West with fantastic sunsets and a 12 hole golf course which he spent most of his time on). We had a barbecue every year near M ( on the east). I haven’t been back for many years but plan to do so.

[goodgoalie]

Believe it or not, the only time I've ever had heatstroke was on the island, staying on the west coast in a cottage near that golf course (and the standing stones).

[Toorak]

I used to love it there. The beach at B (west) is lovely. Sadly the hotel we used to stay at (at one time owned by the parents of a senior politician) is no longer there.

[Flonska]

Made an early start on this week's puzzle only to find that I had more than half a cup of the first coffee left by the time I had finished it. As it was quite unremarkable, there was not much, if anything, to post about it.

When you say you played the village halls there, were you perchance a travelling minstrel during your yoof?

[goodgoalie]

Well, sort of, F - was in a well-known Scottish band, and we 'roughed it' at the start!

[fiction-factory]

> was in a well-known Scottish band,

Wasn't Fictiion-Factory was it?

[goodgoalie]

Ha ha. Glasgow, not Perth

[Etch]

Déjà vu again this week, but over ten years ago - 03/02/2008:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.rec.competitions/5tE6UsY71WY
No Milton Keynes postcard entry, GG, however this even earlier puzzle (26/11/2000) did use that address:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.rec.competitions/oWebyvcx26s

[Etch]

Sorry, senior moment, postcard was to Leighton Buzzard, not Milton Keynes!

[goodgoalie]

Impressive digging, Etch! Shows how much longer - and more interesting - the clues were back then. I wonder how long Chris Fautley has been doing them? Only been given a name check for the past four or five years, I think

[Flonska]

The prizes looked to be more substantial in those days too e.g. "a week for two in Victoria Falls and Hwange Game Reserve."

[Tilly2]

I was sure that I'd replied to this on Sunday. Perhaps I forgot to press the Answer Now button.

yes, done and dusted and submitted, I hope. :-)

[Flonska]

Hope you remembered to take your curlers out?

[Tilly2]

What have my curlers got to do with the price of fish, Flonska? :-)

[Tilly2]

Just taken them out.

[Flonska]

As you suggested that you may had forgotten to "answer now" on this thread, I simply wondered, perhaps, whether or not the commentary on the subject of curlers, may have become a distraction on Sunday? :-)

[Tilly2]

No, Flonska. I'd solved it way before I washed my hair with Arran Aromatics.