A scatter

[Uinneag]

Usualy known as a round of drinks up here

Well today a mate of mine who died in November returned home to Lochbay.

After a few kind words at the Jetty, Myself his two brothers, wife and 96 year old Mum got piped and boarded "Swell" one of the finest fishing vessels in the coastal trade and set sail to the top end of Lochbay and scattered his ash's at a place where he use to put his creels to catch the odd Prawn or lobster for fun.


I really was not looking forward to today but now feel is if it was a great day and will always remember him as I look out onto the Loch.

Anyway in true tradition a few of us a going to get absolutley hammered in his memory tonight

 

[Mr K]

Strange... I was gutted 'til I saw me Mam's box go through the curtains..

A weight seemed to lift and the wake was a great laugh - She'd have loved it.

 

[G.C.]

Scatter o halves

I drink to the health of another,
And the other I drink to is he
In the hope that he drinks to another,
And the other he drinks to is me.

Couldn’t make the funeral of a good mate of mine a while ago, he was an old Sea dog.
I was travelling across the Minch at the time of his service. I filled his tankard wi heavy, took a mouthful and dropped a glass o rum into it before launching it over the side.
Reckon he would have appreciated that.