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ANyone interested in ST. Kilda or abandoned remote islands?

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:40

cna i recmmend htis book \link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006373402/qid=1144946302/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/203-6835545-5435936\the?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 life and death of st Kilda?}

I have read almost all of it in a day and its so fascinating. Its about a n island off hte exxreme northw est coast of scotland that was evacuated hen its population fell to only 38 in 1930.

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dinosaure · 13/04/2006 17:41

My bil was stationed there for a while when he was a squaddie.

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:42

and and and anda nd did he eat puffins?

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:42

Have read it.
Fascinating.
Want to go there.

My mate who is a journalist on the Telegraph was on Pitcairn last year for weeks,covering the rape trials of all those blokes.
Boy,did he have some bonkers stories!

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:43

ah well you need to read that book abotu the bounty then
i read that at xmas

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:43

I liked descriptions of socks made out of cormorant skins and how filthy everything was (eg wiping utensils on clothes when they finished eating.)

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:43

\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006532462/qid=1144946587/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-6835545-5435936\voila?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 she also writes well abotu shackleton}

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dinosaure · 13/04/2006 17:43

I've never asked him that, cod. He has ingested a lot of curious substances in his time, that's a fact Grin.

Not that my sister knows that...Grin Grin.

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:44

god yes and the anuimals int he hosues

really sad when all the babies die though and interestign conlcusiona abotu he effect of money and education

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:45

Ooh that looks good.
My mate said they all speak bizarre 'Ay ay me hearties' English.
I'm into Shackleton too in a big way.

My dad once got a job on St Helena.Turned it down though and went to Saudi.
We had lived on a remote Pacific island for years by then,so think he needed a change and some bright lights.

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:46

Ah yes.
The midwife had it sussed didn't she re tetanus or something??
Memory still sadly postnatal.

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:47

and htey are all intermarried arent they

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:49

Yes
Described the blokes as 'nothings' who weres 'somethings' because of the size of community.

Also said they were v hypocritical. Pretended not to drink when they were invited aboard passing cruise liners yet in reality were real goers.

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cod · 13/04/2006 17:49

\link{http://www.kilda.org.uk/\st kilda}

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dinosaure · 13/04/2006 17:51

Lovely. Love the wave noises, although it has made me want to leave my desk and go for a wee.

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:52

Marvellous

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dinosaure · 13/04/2006 17:53

Pitcairn not near Kilda, though, I think?

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:53

No!
But still very strange little place in the middle of nowhere.

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tamum · 13/04/2006 17:54

Slightly off-topic, but when we were in Mull last week they said that the population of the island was 30,000 earlier in the last century but it's only 3000 since the clearances Shock

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Moondog · 13/04/2006 17:54

What did he say about time there dinosaure??

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dinosaure · 13/04/2006 17:56

Cold. Beautiful. And regulation-lite, by the standards of the British Army.

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cod · 14/04/2006 11:41

finished it

really moving

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Somanykiddies · 12/05/2006 16:13

Cod, what was the book about the Bounty called, would be interested in reading it.

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cod · 12/05/2006 22:42

hmm by caroline alexander

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arfy · 12/05/2006 22:44

yes yes I've heard of this and was thinking about getting it
now i've seen this I will

played an orchestral piece a few years back some bloke had written about leaving St Kilda, we had a copy of the commentary of what he was depicting in the music and it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up...it was fascinating.

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cod · 12/05/2006 22:44

its a greta read

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