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Guides working together
By Andy Middleton
‘One of our passengers left a jacket in a bed and breakfast at Kyleakin. We were heading to Edinburgh. So I called another guide staying in Portree. The guide picked up the jacket and when I met that guide in Fort Augustus, we exchanged the jacket so I could then pass it on to the owner. The passenger was from USA and couldn’t believe that we managed to get her jacket back. She said if this happened in USA, the jacket would be gone.
The Blue Badge Songbook
Over the years guides Morag Dunbar and Norma Allan have written a number of songs for social occasions capturing some of the many amusing moments in the life of a Blue Badge. Morag explains that The Skye Guides CPD Song concerns one of the CPDs that Ros Newlands organised and on which Con Gillen came along. The 'CONcake’ is a reference to him running around wearing red socks and trying to get photos. Phil is Ros’s hubby who often joined us. Lorna is Lorna Johnston who walked the path to Loch Coruisk (we went by boat). She had to negotiate the Bad Step and we were worried she had not made it when we arrived – but she did.
SKYE GUIDES CPD SONG
Tune: “For these are my mountains” CHORUS
For we’re Scottish Tour Guides, on our CPD,
To Skye we have travelled, its wonders to see.
We’ve climbed in the Cuillins, we’ve sailed on the sea, While trying to resolve all, the geology.
1 We’re staying at Dunollie, our welcome was grand. The house rules were shouted, so we’d understand. “7.30’s yer breakfast, you must tak yer seat,
And ony latecomers - they’ll no get tae eat!”
2 Oor Lorna went climbing - up and doon the Bad Step.
We thought we had lost her, poor John in a “flep”.
We were thrilled to see *dykelets, and gawped at *gabbro, Saw deer and an eagle, and plenty of crow.
CHORUS
3 We did some bird-watching, saw species so rare.
The red-legged CONcrake - you cannot compare. These shy little creatures, they roam through the glens, And often found climbing, with camera lens.
4 To find scenic landscapes, is something we like.
So a waterfall cascade, seemed a jolly nice hike.
By taking the wrong path, we missed the whole view. And the Clearances village – we missed that place too.
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