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CONTENTS

- THE B842 : A PETITION TO THE COUNCIL

- JANUARY RAINFALL
- A HEART TO HEART … ! NON-PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
- EAST KINTYRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES

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- MOLLY PATERSON
- SADDELL and CARRADALE - A CHURCH HISTORY
- MIKE FOREMAN and TONY LEIGHTON’S ‘ATLANTIC ADVENTURE’
- ‘ATLANTIC’ THANKS
- CARRADALE GOAT WEBSITE CELEBRATIONS
- ROWANJOY
- CERI STRANG
- THE CRUBON BUOY
- LOW AND BEHOLD
- SWITCHOVER AND RE-TUNE DATES FOR CARRADALE AND CAMPBELTOWN DIGITAL TV
- HOP OVER, GET SOAKED OR BREAK A LEG !
- SCHOOL TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS FOR SECONDARY PUPILS FROM GIGHA
- CARRADALE CAMERA CLUB
- DANGERS OF EXPLORING - SHOULD I STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER ?
- THE DANGER OF EXPLODING MOBILE PHONES
- THE CHARLES AND BARBARA TYRE TRUST
- TORRISDALE MEMORIES
- FROM THE COURIER TO THE WORLD
- QUIZZLE 9 RESULTS
- SOUTH KINTRE SENIORS FORUM

THE B842 : A PETITION TO THE COUNCIL

Concern was expressed at the most recent meeting of East Kintyre Community Council, by Elizabeth Vischer and others,
over the difficulties encountered by motorists on the B842 Carradale to Claonaig road during the winter. As a result a
petition has been organised and copies of the form can be completed at either of the two post offices in Carradale. The
petition reads -

“We the undersigned users of the B842 road between Claonaig and Carradale request that Argyll & Bute Council upgrade
this section of the B842 so that it is gritted when necessary and kept in a proper state of repair. We believe that it is vital to
maintain access at all times. Recent bad weather highlighted the lack of council provision when workers could not travel to
work, children could not get to school, the doctor and nurses were cut off from their patients and access to the emergency
services was denied”.

Those completing the form are asked to include their name, signature, address, and add how often they used the road ?
(more than once a day, daily, 3 times a week) and what they used the road for ? (work, leisure, school run).

JANUARY RAINFALL
The total rainfall for the month was just 103mm (about 4 inches) and this makes it the driest January in the ten years that
we have been keeping records. - How the time flies !

Significant rainfall fell on only four occasions, with 21mm, 19mm and 12mm on the 15th, 16th. and 18th. Topped with
exceptionally heavy rainfall on the 22nd when 32mm was recorded. There were 16 completely dry days, and with a minimal
1mm trace falling on a further 8 days. These 24 days amounted to three quarters of an overall very dry January. Rainfall
figures of 4mm on both the 2nd and the 20th , and 3mm on the 27th completed the statistics.

January started and ended with very cold dry weather. It was cold throughout the month with many very frosty nights, icy
roads, short sharp hail showers and flurries of snow. Apart from a short spell when there were strong southerly winds, the
winds were, for the most part, from a very chilly northerly or north-easterly direction - “The north wind doth blow and
we shall have snow”

Fortunately, we did not experience the snowfalls of December, but a very cold winter has continued with a vengeance.
However on a more optimistic note, buds on the snowdrops are heralding perhaps less cold weather in February ? “Hope
springs eternal”. M. L.

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 A HEART TO HEART … ! NON-PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
You’re already tired, frustrated and are really stressed and upset. Suddenly you start to experience severe pain in your chest
that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are too far away from the nearest hospital and in any case
you don't know if you're able to make it that far. Whether you are in a remote area without mobile phone reception or not
don’t waste valuable time by phoning or texting, but what can you do ?

You may have had some emergency training how to deal with suspected heart attacks, but the person that conducted the
course did not tell you what to do in this situation. How do you survive a possible heart attack ?

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly
and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

Do not panic, but start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The
cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be
repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Then is the time to try ringing emergency or family numbers

Deep breaths gets oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keeps the blood circulating. The
squeezing pressure on the heart also help to regain normal rhythm. In this way, as a heart attack victim you may be able to
survive until you get to the hospital.

Heart attacks are no longer the prerogative of the over 50s and those over-weight.
Adapted from an e-mail sent in by L.McN.

EAST KINTYRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES

Thursday 3 December 2009

PRESENT : Shelagh Cameron, Stuart Irvine, Ronnie Brownie, Andrea Hopkins, Councillor Donald Kelly

APOLOGIES : Lachie Paterson, Elizabeth McMillan, Councillor John McAlpine, Councillor Robin Currie

MINUTES OF LAST MEETING : Proposed by Ronnie Brownie, seconded by Stuart Irvine

MATTERS ARISING : Fish farm: At the meeting on Friday 8 November the application for the fish farm was finally given
permission to proceed.

TREASURERS REPORT : in the bank £1,718.22. This includes rent from Elaine Biggart for field - £110 and interest
£0.14 p

REPORT FROM ASSOCIATION OF ARGYLL AND BUTE COMMUNITY COUNCILS (MBCE) AND AGM

Shelagh Cameron attended a meeting in Lochgilphead 28 November 2009.

• Morning session: volunteer services gave an interesting talk on their involvement in the community. Sally Loudon, Chief
Executive, Argyll & Bute Council gave a talk on the restructuring of Argyll and Bute Council, making it more streamlined
and cost efficient. A lot of processes put in place over the past year. Hopefully a lot of these will come to fruition in the
coming year.

• Afternoon session: AGM - Geoffrey Page resigned as secretary. A new secretary chair etc was duty elected.

Shelagh Cameron thought the meeting lacked enthusiasm arid did not seem to have a strong enough voice on local issues,
This gave thought too whether we should belong too AABCC or Scottish Association of Community Councils or on the
other hand not belong to either. It was suggested that a by-election should be held early next year for Carradale, Saddell and
Peninver Community Council to bring numbers up to the required level of 10.

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 BALLYMENACH ROAD UPDATE :
Shelagh Cameron had a meeting with Brian Rattray, James Ross and Neil Brown. After a walkabout and long discussion,
Ballymenach could not be adopted unless it is brought up to standard which means footpaths and street lights have to be
put in, The road would cost approximately £500 per metre if done by Argyll and Bute Council, contractor might be
cheaper, Shelagh Cameron also acquired a map showing who owns what land down at the harbour. This will be useful in
the future when Lakeland start to do the fish farm.

PLANNING : Rear extension too Eastwood - Community Council has no objection.

ROAD: WINTER MAINTENANCE - as usual.

ANTLER ISSUES :

A full discussion could not take place as the editor - Geoffrey Page did not attend the meeting. Some of the articles in The
Antler were at best contentious - Lachie Paterson - some reporting unnecessary and troublesome.

Shelagh Cameron - the editor should be more unbiased in reporting and not use it as a personal soapbox. Geoffrey Page
does a great job but recently The Antler has contained more and more articles written by himself. More people should be
encouraged to write in with local news - Articles have to be with Geoffrey Page before the 15th of the month. No Antler
in January.

CORRESPONDENCE :

Wind Farm - Cour, Tangy and Offshore Development, no one able to attend.

Community Profile - leaflet.

Scottish Community Council Association - leaflet.

Review for Older People Services - leaflet.

NHS Vale of Leven - monitoring group set up.

Change to Scottish Planning - leaflet.

Digital Switch Over Pack - Central 2010 /2011.

ANY OTHER COMPETENT BUSINESS :

Dog foul bins full. Stuart Irvine suggested foul bins to be removed and disposed of. A note to be put in The Antler asking
dog owners that use Sally’s Walk, to dispose of their dogs foul responsibly. Shelagh Cameron to contact Tony Lambert
about possible replacement with wheelie bins.

Notice board at the hotel broken - Shelagh Cameron to speak to Mike Hurst about either fixing or replacing the notice
board. If replaced - where to sight.

Councillor Donald Kelly brought up on behalf of Councillor Robin Currie - Lay-By markers to be replaced next year.
Possible illuminated signs as well.

Campbeltown Grammar School : 1 Repair, 2 New build. Councillor Donald Kelly suggested that the Community
Council writes to Mike Russell, MSP. Education, Scottish Office and Dick Walsh, Argyll and Bute Council in favour of a
new Grammar School for Campbeltown.

This account was copied from The Carradale Goat web-site.

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 MOLLY PATERSON
Molly died peacefully on 2nd January in the 92nd year of her life. During her lifetime, till it was no longer possible, Molly
was always busy, be it at work or at home with her craft work. I’m sure many people will have fond memories of her either
as an employee, work colleague, friend and neighbour to many and especially on the stage with Carradale Drama Club.
Many homes will still have items which Molly made with her good hands either at home or the local Craft Centre (where
she spent many hours). Always game for a laugh and joke, I’m sure she will be missed by many. Our thoughts go out
today to her twins Angus and Matthew and all the family at home and away. M. R.

SADDELL and CARRADALE - A CHURCH HISTORY

© 2003 P. Donald M. Kelly

The history of Scotland itself may be said to have begun in Kintyre when, in 503, Fergus the Great crossed from Dalriada,
the name given to the country around Antrim, to Dunaverty, near Southend. Sixty years later, in 563 and en route to Iona,
St. Columba rowed across The North Channel to land at Southend and even a thousand years on, as late as 1547, the
peoples of Cantire - ‘the head of the land’ - were to be known as the Hibernii because of these ancient Irish connections,
the name Kintyre itself being given to a farm at the southern end of the peninsula.

With the accession of the Dalriadic kings from Ireland, a strife gradually arose arose in The Western Isles and three
hundred years were to pass before one Kenneth Macalpine managed to unite the various factions and establish The
Kingdom of Scotland.

By the time of Macalpine’s death, in 858, the Vikings had begun to swarm down the western coasts and for the next 400
years these generally unwelcome invaders would dominate the scene, the final 100 years of their reign of terror being
signalled with the emergence from a cave in Morvern of the mighty Somerled, Lord of The Isles who, tradition has it, later
married a daughter of The Bishop of The Isle of Man and, to please her father, began the building of the Cistercian Abbey
at Saddell, just ten or so miles of Campbeltown in 1160 and the work completed, following his father’s death at the hands
of King Malcolm’s army at Renfrew in 1163, by his son Reginald. Sommerled’s body was laid to rest at Saddell, the
tombstone set within the arched recesses in the south wall of the choir, the cruciform structure of the building aligned
exactly to the four compass points and its transepts measuring some 178' x 24' from north to south.

The importance of the old Saddell Monastery as an ecclesiastical seat, one almost as great as that on Iona, is now largely
overlooked and few are aware of the fact that, even as late as the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, this charming old
world sanctuary in the vale of Saddell was still remembered daily in prayers of Rome.

As a consequence of Saddell’s building, other churches began to flourish in Kintyre, it then at the very heart of the spread
of Christianity in Scotland.

On the opposite side of Kintyre, just a mile or so south of Tayinloan and built in 1243, just 60 years after Saddell Abbey’s
completion, stands the ruin of the mother church of Kintyre - “Ecclesia Sancti Joannis”, The Church of St. John - as
from ‘Eoin’ or ‘Iain’ - Killean Church, its three ‘penny lands’ granted some time before 1251 by Roderick, he holding the
then Lordship of Kintyre and a further deed, written some time between 1380 and 1423 by Donald, Lord of The Isles,
informs us by its witness that one Sir Archibald McGillivray would be Vicar of Killean. Apart from this, we know nothing
of the history of the mid-Kintyre churches between the 1243 grant of Killean church by Alexander II to The Bishop of
Argyll and the year 1641 when the parish of Killean was joined to that of Saddell where on Murdo McWhirrie (or
McCurrie) was Protestant minister and he then too required to visit Gigha every six weeks.

The linking of the parishes would stand for 112 years and, though records have been lost, the main history of this period is
relatively well detailed. A year later, in 1642, a further change took place and Martin MacLauchlan, an Islay minister, was
instructed to visit Killean occasionally to administer the ordinances.

These were troubled times, injurious to the peace and prosperity of the Church in Argyll and Kintyre for Montrose had
made a rapid and unexpected descent from the north and “Kintyre became like a desert its few inhabitants became the prey
of a fearful pestilence which followed in the train of all their other calamities”.

Church Synod records state that members could not attend the meeting scheduled to be held in Inveraray in 1644 and, in

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1646, absentees were excused because of the country’s troubles.The Presbytery of Cowal had sought shelter in The
Lowlands, the Presbytery of Kintyre, under rebel control, had no members resident in Kintyre as too was true of the
Presbytery of Argyll and Lorn and any presbytery members as might be found at all in the area were in the shelter of the
garrisons.

A skirmish, rather than a battle, took place between the retreating MacDonald’s army and the vanguard of Leslie’s
advancing force at Rhunhaorine Moss on Tuesday, May 25, 1647 - The MacDonalds retreated to Dunaverty Castle, a grave
blunder which ended with tragic results. Dunaverty’s garrison fell and more than 300 MacDonalds were put to the sword.

Eight years later, on Wednesday, August 15, 1655, the first meeting is noted of the Kintyre Presbytery in Campbeltown - it
then too variously known as Lochead, Kinloch and Kilkerran - and the presbytery including Islay and Colonsay as well as
Kintyre. Among those present that day were Dugald Darroch of Campbeltown, Martin MacLauchlan of Islay, James
Gardiner of Saddell and John Cunison of Kilbride in Arran.

In October 1655, a complaint was made to the Presbytery about the numerous Sabbath-breakers. The desecration existed
in “people gathering nuts and berries on The Lord’s Day and flocking to visit friends” and Lord Neil Campbell was
recommended to “take some public course for punishing thereof within the bounds”.

In 1656, Dugald Campbell of Inverawe, then ruling elder at Killean Church appeared before the Presbytery “for himself
and the remnant of parishioners of Killean (and Saddell) to prosecute a call to Mr David Simson for the work of the
ministry among them” and made reference to “the sad and deplorable condition of the people whereunto he is called”
calling for Mr Simson’s speedy admission to Killean - It is said that “every man did what was right in his own eyes” and no
doubt there was relief in the community when at last, on Friday, July 25, 1656, Simson arrived and set the Kirk Session to
sort out delinquents.

A couple of years later, at a meeting in Killean Church on Friday, September 3, 1658 attended by Dugald Campbell of
Inverawe, Duncan Campbell, Baillie of Kintyre and The Marquis of Argyll himself, David Simson requested help to clear
to clear the parish of troublemakers and Hugh Campbell of Inverness and Duncan Campbell were authorised to impose
fines, known then as ‘mulets’, on the delinquents.

David Simson was a graduate of St. Andrews University. In 1660 he was appointed, along with many others, to translate
The Scriptures into Gaelic and was assigned for his part The First Book of Kings. Simson was undoubtedly from the north
and on at least one occasion was excused by the Presbytery “for long abscence having been necessarily called north”.

The laudable undertaking of The Synod to translate The Scriptures into Gaelic proved fruitless at that time because of The
Restoration and the work was delayed for nearly 150 years.

At this time English-speaking ministers were being settled in parishes which were subsequently made Gaelic charges. This
seems to have been the case in Saddell where the minister, James Gardner, “had, for his learning and piety, been appointed
chaplain to the devoted Marquis of Argyll - He thus incurred suspicion which led to his ruin”. Gardner was summoned to
appear before The Privy Council in Edinburgh with two other ministers in 1662 and had sentence of banishment to
Holland given against him but later, privately, came back to Scotland and died in Glasgow.

Simson’s charge of Killean (and Saddell) then also included Gigha and the island’s parishioners were at odds about the
repair of Gigha’s church and the building of a new manse. The Presbytery duly intervened and ordered that “the
parishioners of Gigha build or re-edify a sufficient church on the island; that they be relieved from contributing to the
building or re-edifying of the church building at Killean and, that after sending the proportion of the tiend to the minister’s
chamber in Gigha, they were next to transfer the same to the Killean side at their charges”.

Gigha paid for the minister’s travel to the island at their own expense, the minister’s return to the mainland being paid for
by Killean, a service conducted on every third Sabbath from March to September and on every fourth in winter months.
The elders, respectively, ordered the dates of meetings ‘for the exact execution of discipline’ and expenses for the minister’s
travel to and from these meetings paid as in the case of his Sabbath attendances.

In 1660 the Stuart dynasty was restored to the person of Charles II and “in the latter end of March” the parliament
rescinded all the Acts which approved the National Covenant, the Solemn League and Covenant and the Abolition of

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Bishops in Scotland and rescinded all parliaments since 1637 as wanting authority only tolerating Presbyterian govern-ment
“during the king’s pleasure”.

All ministers who did not conform were “outed” and deprived of their charges for refusing to conform to the system of
Church government then introduced. Those who persisted were punished with the loss of their liberty or even their lives.
David Simson, minister of Killean, was “outed” in 1663 but seems some time afterwards to have been ‘indulged’ and was
translated to the parish in Southend. In 1685 his name appears in a list of ‘indulged’ ministers who were ordered to be
liberated on a bond of 5000 merks each - about £3,500 Scots or £280 sterling. This suggests that Simson had probably
been imprisoned earlier for opposing the system of Church government. A year later Simson was banished to New Jersey
in America. Simson’s son later became Episcopal minister of Southend and about 1692,after making submission to the
Presbytery, was appointed minister of Kilarrow in Islay.

On David Simson’s “outing” from Killean in 1663, one Aeneas Macdonald, a native of Milton in South Uist and a graduate
of Glasgow University, was appointed Episcopal minister of Killean and a new manse provided on the brae opposite
Killean church. Aeneas Macdonald deserted his charge at Killean at the Revolution and was drowned while journeying to
visit his relations in Uist.

Mrs Marquiss of Cara, a second cousin to one Flora Macdonald, was herself related to the Macdonalds in Milton, South
Uist.

The Rev. John Cunison, a Covenanting minister, had been resident at Killean during Aeneas Macdonald’s ministry and had
been minister at Kilbride in Arran in 1655. Cunison, like David Simson, had also been “outed” from his charge.

A native of Perthshire, Cunison was a member of a highly respected Athole family and it was perhaps these Athole
connections which led him to view Killean and Kintyre as a fairly safe retreat.

Of passing interest at this point, there was, though no date of its foundation can be traced, a shire of Tarbert which
included Kintyre, Gigha, Islay, Jura, Scarba, Colonsay and Mull plus the various and adjacent smaller islands. On February
26, 1481, a Monday, Knapdale too was made made part of Tarbert-shire. Previously it was part of Perth-shire!

Eventually, on Friday,June 28,1633, Tarbert-shire was amalgamated with the shire of Argyll - The last Tarbert-shire M.P.,
elected in September 1628, was Sir Lachlan M’Lean of Morvern.

The Marquis of Athole exercised justiciary powers in Argyll and his eldest son, who married the Duke of Hamilton’s
daughter, is said to have favoured The Covenanters.

From all accounts Cunison was a man of much worth having great courage, religious zeal and a disposition to suffer in
support of his beliefs. Cunison lived in a miserable dwelling at a place called Clach-fhionn in Strathduie Glen.

William Watson, tenant of Claongart and an elder of Killean, told the Rev. Daniel Kelly of Campbeltown the following
story of John Cunison.

When living at Strathduie, a gentleman (duine-uasal) from Perthshire visited Cunison. Cunison’s house had neither window
nor chimney and the smoke within became so annoying that they retired outside to the river-bank and Cunison set himself
to catch a fish for their meal.

While fishing, Cunison told his visitor to return to Athole and tell his relatives that his house possessed one door which
served for entrance, for the escape of smoke and for ‘The Light of Heaven’ to fall on the table where Providence supplied
him with a meal.

Cunison was obviously a Covenanter with a sense of humour able to discourse facetiously amid comfortless surroundings
and in depressing circumstances. One can imagine the twinkle in his eye as he speaks of his humble abode proving far more
serviceable than the stateliest of mansions.

Another story tells how Cunison came home from a day’s fishing on Arnichle Loch to find a sturdy beggar, another Athole
man, on his door. Cunison’s wife had refused to give this objectionable visitor lodging for the night and it was only after
some hesitation that Cunison let the man stay.

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Cunison remonstrated with the visitor for retiring to rest without engaging in prayer or thanks marking the visitor as a man
wanting as much in devotion as n common civility. Taking hold of the man, Cunison made to evict him from his humble
dwelling but the visitor proved a formidale antagonist.

Cunison, himself a powerful man, eventually pinned the visitor to the ground with his knee on his chest and ordered the
man to repeat his prayer. The man declared he was unable to pray and had never prayed before. Mortified by his
discomfiture, the visitor added that he had never thought that any man in Scotland could have ever laid him on his back as
he was now.

John Cunison had his way and the visitor, inspired rather by his physical discomfort than his spiritual misery, began “God
be merciful to me a sinner” !

Not only did John Cunison prove a man of strong means but too he proved an active benefactor for he was instrumental in
securing a small farm tenancy for his uncouth guest.

Having lived in destitute circumstances in Kintyre for some years, Cunison at length set off for Arran to crave arrears of
stipend for his ministry. His circumstances do not lead to any conclusion that his claim could be legally supported but
nonetheless he explained his case to the Duchess of Hamilton.

The Duchess told Cunison that the Duke did in no way have any regard for his particular sect but despite this directed
Cunison to the Duke who was in the castle gardens. Cunison put his claim for seven years payment of stipend to the Duke
and the Duke, not surprisingly, denied liability “you must be a strange man,” said the Duke.

“Strange things I have known,” replied Cunison. “That Bishop Sharpe, the fiddler’s son, be sitting here at court before The
Duke of Hamilton”.

Such was the effect of this remark, carefully calculated to extol, though not too fulsomely, the dignity of the house of
Hamilton that Cunison duly received his seven years back-stipend from the Duke.

Cunison’s ministry was indeed proscribed at this time and he preached at considerable risk. Nonetheless he administered
the sacraments in many communities - Carradale, Gigha, Jura and Arran amongst them. In order to serve his peoples he
travelled away from roads and across hills and burns and frequently preached at night.

In the course of his residence at Clach-fionn a marriage party came to seek his services on a day when the Strathduie Water
was in full spate. Cunison was out ploughing when the marriage party arrived and was on the opposite bank of the raging
river. The bridegroom placed the marriage lines in a napkin and threw them across the water and Cunison, having seen that
all was in order, duly carried out the service his voice nigh drowned by the noise of the water.

He was an impressive and practical preacher and, in a service at Kilchenzie, made use of the text “Let all thieves cast from
them stolen goods”.

At these words one of Cunison’s congregation, a man with a taste for his mutton and who just happened to have a
shoulder of mutton hidden under his plaid at the time felt the words were levelled personally at him.

Such was the circumstance and the effect of Cunison’s sermon that the man drew out the ‘goods’ from his plaid and before
all declared that he had never stolen from a poor man at any time and that what he had taken was from a wealthy
neighbour who could well afford to lose it !

In 1695 Cunison was parish minister at Killean, for how much longer before that is not on record though it would seem
that he had covered the needs of the area from 1672 onwards, from about the time of Aeneas Macdonald’s desertion of the
charge.

In 1696 Cunison wrote to the Presbytery that “age and manifold infirmities rendered him unfit for the duty of minister”
and craved the Presbytery “to supply the charge by an assistant” for although Gigha no longer formed part of the charge of
Killean the parish of Saddell had been added in 1641 when Murdo McWhirrie (or McCurrie) arrived at Killean.

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John Cunison died about 1698, “an old man and full of years”. Of him it was remarked that “the frailty of ministers could
not be attributed to him for he never canted nor recanted like some of his brethern”. He was buried in Killean graveyard
and his lair marked by the name Montgomery.Cunison’s son,James, was made Baillie of Kintyre and latterly, on behalf of
the Duchess of Argyll, made Chamberlain of Argyll.

In September 1698 the lairds of Largie and Carradale invited the Presbytery to supervise the subscription of a call to Patrick
Campbell, son of Duncan Campbell, minister of South Knapdale. The call was accepted and Patrick Campbell came to
Killean in 1699.

In 1699 too a small chapel and burial ground was opened on the shore just north of Bellochantuy and known as Cladh
Nam Paitean. Part of the chapel, by then roofless, was converted into a pinnacled enclosure to be used fo McAlister
graves.

Patrick Campbell’s uncle and grand-father had been ministers of some note in Argyll. His uncle, too named Patrick
Campbell, was inducted to his charge of Inveraray Castle in 1657. He died in 1700 and Lady Campbell of Auchinbreck,
step-daughter of the Earl of Argyll, testifies to the “awakening effect” that Campbell’s sermons had on her and to “having
access to hear the sweet and powerful truths at Campbeltown underMr Cameron and Mr Keith’s ministry these two
emminent lights in that place”.

Patrick Campbell of Killean’s maternal grand-father had been minister at Kilfinan at the time of The Restoration and, like
David Simson, was “outed” and ordered to appear before The Privy Council. At that appearance too were Mr Gardner of
Saddell and Mr Gordon of Inveraray. Campbell of Kilfinan was ‘indulged’ in 1672 and later came to the charge of the
Highland Church in Campbeltown.

Patrick Campbell’s father, Duncan Campbell of South Knapdale, lived to be a 103 and was said to “have been singularly
overpowered with melancholy”. There are some suggestions that this unfortunate disposition was inherited by his son at
Killean.

At the time of Patrick Campbell’s arrival at Killean, the church building was not in sufficiently good state of repair to allow
his ordination to take place there and it too was the case that Killean had neither manse nor, any longer, a glebe and the
Laird of Largie, Duncan McVicar and Archibald Cunison - presumably another son of the late John Cunison - were
appointed to find a house for the new minister and the following year the parish heritors and tacksmen offered the sum of
£42 Scots - about £3.50p sterling - as compensation for the lack of a manse and glebe.

In the same year, 1700, it was resolved to build a meeting house at Corputchachan - Trainspattain too had been suggested
originally but it was considered too far and remote from Kilchenzie. In the end a meeting place was built to the south side
of Bellochantuy, this the first mention of a proper place of worship there. In 1822 plans were put in place to erect a new
building at ‘Beallachantuie’ and this duly opened in 1825.

150 years later, on Wednesday March 19, 1975, the last wedding took place when Iain Sinclair, son of Session Clerk John A.
Sinclair, married Margaret Semple. Bellochantuy Church closed shortly afterwards and was demolished in the late 1970’s to
make way for ‘the new road’ realignment.

Patrick Campbell spent the next twenty years and more petitioning the Presbytery for improvements to his Killean charge
and the heritors and others summoned to appear before the Presbytery were not wanting in reasons to explain away, or at
least minimise, Campbell’s grievances.

“That the charge is too vast” - the parish of Killean was some 52,000 acres, nearly 80 square miles alone and the addition of
Saddell parish in 1641 added a further, not only area but, distance for travelling.

“That he accepted the call on condition of Saddell parish being disjoined” - this happened eventually in 1753 when Saddell
parish was joined to Skipness and a new 47,000 acre parish was formed, little smaller than the acreage of Killean.

“That his maintenance being only 700 merks, £470 Scots, about £39 sterling per year and that that was badly paid; That
there was no manse or glebe or Communion elements; That his ministry was unsuccessful owing to the subject discoursed
on in one corner of the parish being forgotten ere he visited that corner again; That his knowledge of his flock was
imperfect as he could seldom visit them owing to the very vastness of his charge; That the sick were going into Eternity

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without his ministering to them; That his precious time was consumed by incessant toil, fatigue and travel so that he had
no time to gather food for the souls committed to him and that such hardships had broken his health and would necessitate
the abandoning of his ministry even though dear to him above all sublunary comforts”.

Over and over again Campbell petitioned the Presbytery to remove him to another sphere of labour, “to transport him” or
“pass an act of transportation in his favour”.

Patrick Campbell lived to support his grievances for some twenty-seven years and his primary grievance, made in 1700, that
there was “neither roofed church nor meeting house in all the bounds of his charge” was seen by the Presbytery as only
something of but a mere and trivial effect !

Despite “the fair promises” little was done to help Patrick Campbell though a resolution was made that “so much a
merkland” be given to the minister until such time as a manse and glebe could be provided. Even so, it is little wonder that
Patrick Campbell still felt grieved for, despite early promises of increase to his stipend, his salary was effectively ‘pegged’
from 1704 until 1719. Then there was the promise that “on fourteen days notice they would provide elements whenever
the minister desired a Communion” !

The meeting house could not be repaired however without first repairing the church - ‘the trivial defect’, the roof of
Killean Church, was eventually and the church made usable for some sixty years.

The Presbytery too had visited Killean in 1701 and had found that “there were few or no scandals amongst the people in
the parish and found that there was a visible outward reformation upon them” but a report five years later, in 1706, reflects
severely “that they made little progress in knowledge and that those remote parts of the parish neglect religious
ordinances”.

1719 was a turning point for Patrick Campbell. Hitherto he had lived at Beachmore in an ivy-draped house which stood at
the foot of a bank to the north of the farm and near to a small stream. Outside the house stood a stone on which he sat on
Saturdays when meditating his service and sermon for the following day. Now, twenty years after he arrived, he was given a
manse but it, like the church building with its west gable in danger of falling, was in no good state of repair. With the manse
came a glebe, one lone acre of arable ground.

That same year of 1719, in common with all Kintyre charges, stipends were raised by a commission appointed by The
Duke of Argyll, the rises from £470 Scots, £39 sterling to £600 Scots, £50 sterling per year and, in addition, came the
annual provision of £2.70p for communion elements.

Given his new found prosperity, Patrick Campbell married Mary, daughter of Dugald Campbell of Drumnamucklach, the
union producing two sons, Duncan and James, neither of whom married and three daughters.

In October 1719 Patrick Campbell asked the Presbytery to release him from the task of crossing the hilly terrain to preach
at Saddell during the winter months on account of his ill-health. The Presbytery, desiring “to have tender sympathy with
him under his many grievances”, made arrangements to supply Saddell as requested.

On Thursday, January 7, 1720, the Presbytery visited the parish as a complaint had been made against Patrick Campbell by
some of the people “for depriving them of their portion of worship” - This referred to the holding of a service at Arnicle
which at an earlier time had been the site of the church manse.

Patrick Campbell represented to the Presbytery “that he preached there out of regard to the good of the whole parish”, the
service there being held to make it in some way easier for the people of Saddell to attend. The Presbytery took a different
view and advised Patrick Campbell that, for the future, he was not to preach at Arnicle again “unless on a Fast Day or some
public occasion”.

In his forty-ninth year,Patrick Campbell died on Monday, February 14, 1726 and was buried in South Knapdale. Patrick
Campbell was succeeded by John MacLean (sometimes called Alexander McLaine),son of Charles Macneil bane MacLean
of Mull. Licensed by the Presbytery of Lorn,he was ordained on Wednesday, May 8, 1728. John MacLean, in the fifteenth
year of his ministry, died on Monday,January 17, 1743.

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At the end of 1743, the charge having been vacant all year, the call went to Robert Thomson, tutor to Baron Macneal of
Ugadale’s two sons John and Hector. Thomson, a native of Ayrshire who had been left an orphan and was brought up by
his uncle, a Dr Thomson, was ordained on Wednesday, April 25, 1744.

About this time a young gentlewoman of whose humanity and heroism the world would later here, came to spend a year
with the Macdonalds at Largie Estate - her name was Flora Macdonald and her mother was the daughter of the Rev. Angus
Macdonald whose wife was a lady of the Largie family the rest of that story is history.

It would seem that Killean’s new minister Robert Thomson favoured, if he did not actually himself originate, the idea of
abandoning the ruinous church at Killean in favour of a site at Muasdale which was considered to be at the centre of
Killean parish were it to be disjoined from the parish of Saddell, that linking being little more than a century old and that
linking having put so much strain on his predecessors.

Sympathetic to the arguments, The Lords Commissioners, in a discreet dated Monday, June 11, 1753, “suppressed the
churches of Killean and Beallochantuie and ordained a new church to be built upon the lands of Muasdale in the centre of
the parish” - Thirty-six years later and nineteen years after the roof of the old church at Killean crashed down, one Thomas
Cairns of Campbeltown began work on A’Chleit Church at Muasdale, the work contracted to be completed on the last day
of June 1790, just two years after the completion of The Mull of Kintyre lighthouse.

The present-day church in Carradale, built in 1865, stands on the site of that erected following the ‘disjoining’ from Killean
parish in 1753. Like A’Chleit Church at Muasdale, Carradale Church stands in the centre of the parish, midway between
Brackley Cemetery to the north and Saddell to the south.

Though the Free Church, built in 1887, became part of The Church of Scotland in 1929, both Carradale churches
continued in weekly use until 1952 when the congregations united and, though for a time both buildings were used for
public worship, the old Free Church building on the road to the harbour, referred to as Carradale Church, was eventually
adapted for use as a meeting place for church organisations and Saddell Church, its driveway opening at the bridge and
opposite Dippen Farm, once a coaching inn, became the sole place of worship in the village.

© 2003 P. Donald M. Kelly

THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT’S ‘YEAR OF HOMECOMING’

: KINTYRE STYLE
MIKE FOREMAN and TONY LEIGHTON’S ‘ATLANTIC ADVENTURE’
TALK ATTRACTS A LARGE AND FASCINATED AUDIENCE

Over 100 people braved the elements, and cavernous holes in the car park entrance, to hear Mike Foreman and Tony
Leighton’s light-hearted presentation on what must have been a life-time ‘high’ for them both and for their respective
spouses.

Under the patronage of the Saddell and Carradale Church Guild, Sylvia Irvine got the evening off to a prompt and lively
start.

In somewhat of a Flanders and Swan take-off, using full wet-weather gear and exotic Caribbean shirts rather than tie and
tails, Mike and Tony, accompanied by a medical kit suggested by Doctors Elder and Abernethy which included everything
short of tools for brain surgery, set off with the intention of sailing down the eastern Irish coast making for The Canary
Isles, but keeping as far as possible to the 10º west line of longitude and off the continental shelf to avoid the worst of the
turbulence for which The Bay of Biscay is notorious.

Unfortunately their dedication to the late September Waterfoot Duck Race Festival provided a seasonal weather risk - to
avoid the worst possibilities they should have started much earlier in the year. Despite this, and the departure of the third
crew member in Southern Ireland, arrived safely in Northern Spain and during the following week called at a number of
Iberian ports for recuperation, repairs, and sight-seeing.

After avoiding much larger ships turning unexpectedly in the fog from the main SW-NE traffic lanes into the

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Mediterranean, the next leg took them to Madeira. Both had bouts of sea-sickness, but in Tony’s case only when going
below; watches of three hours with a half an hour overlap left little time for sympathetic conversation or for further repairs.

Despite stocking up with enough ‘Tony’s’ prepared evening meals there was still a need to take on fresh fruit and
vegetables. With both eating a banana a day with their breakfast cereal, a crossing of the Atlantic meant that ‘Blue Tarn’
resembled the kind of craft that was to meet them at Caribbean ports - literally almost swamped by the pile of vegetable
products on board.

Fresh water was also a constant concern. The boat’s tank of 90 gallons, aided by a separate container of 30 gallons meant
that washing and washing-up was with salt water with a modicum of fresh water as a final rinse.

Tony admitted that certain activities aboard had their hazards. Like astronauts, eating meals when their capsule is rolling
and defying gravity was somewhat of a challenge, so with extraordinary problem-solving strategy all meals were served up
in dog bowls. Going to the toilet also had its challenges. Despite a handrail in front of the toilet, bodily functions were
hazardous when some parts of the anatomy were not in contact with the seat and other were hitting the cabin roof.

After leaving the Cape Verde Islands the direction was south rather than west, doing justice to the old direction to ‘sail
south until the butter melts on deck and then turn west’.

They arrived at St. Lucia, 21 days later after suffering a rudder-attack by a hammer-head shark and ‘experiencing’ sea
temperatures of 80ºF and air temperatures of 110ºF. Like all boats they were greeted by an ad-hoc reception committee and
had a welcome break from the their watch duties.

Those listening to the talk were then surprised when a ten-minute interval was arranged with Moira, Margaret and other
helpers dispensing rum-punch - not something that the aforesaid doctors had prescribed for the ‘Blue Tarn’ medical kit.

After a well-earned rest Mike and Tony resumed their tour of the Caribbean and travelled to a number of islands in the
southern end of the chain experiencing some of the pleasures for which the area is noted before again turning north. By
this time ‘Blue Tarn’ was becoming ‘tarnished’ and Tony admitted that they had ‘left the Atlantic with a clean bottom but
were desperately in need of a scrape’ and needed to ‘clean up the boat before Moira and Margaret arrived for their month-
long stay aboard’. Although Tony’s computer presentation had no incriminating evidence of the state of depravity in ‘Blue
Tarn’ before their spouses arrived, those with an over-imaginative mind may be conjuring up all kinds of images but I
suspect that it was no more than a copy of the Church ‘Beacon’ with a soup stain on page three and a spot of shaving
cream on a a concave mirror.

In order not to make everyone jealous it is sufficient to report that the tour of the northern islands including those
associated with well-known personalities, proved to be an exciting, rewarding and pleasurable experience and it is clear that
the picture of Moira and Margaret leaving ‘Blue Tarn’ expressed the regret that such an idyllic period had come to an end.

For Mike and Tony the journey back via Bermuda proved to be a little less pleasurable with head winds and the prospect of
missing the south coast of Ireland and making landfall on Iceland, but with well co-coordinated satellite telephone and
mobile-phone services a party of well wishers met them on the pontoon at Campbeltown, and as the picture below shows,
someone was pleased to welcome her Christopher Columbus back home.

At the end of the talk no one questioned the two adventurers if they had fallen for the traditional Masefield lines but I have
my suspicions that shorter voyages may be in the offing

In thanking Mike and Tony for their talk, Una Semple praised them for their efforts in presenting such a well-informed and
delightful account of their trip and commended their bravery in tackling such an ambitious challenge.
G. P.

‘ATLANTIC’ THANKS
The Guild would like to thank Michael and Tony very much indeed for all their time and effort they took to provide us
with an excellent evening’s entertainment on Monday 1st of February. It was a privilege to share some of their ‘Atlantic

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Adventure’. Many thanks also to Margaret and Moira who beavered away behind the scenes and kept us refreshed with our
tot of rum punch. A total of £200 (after expenses) will go towards Church Funds.
M. McH.

CARRADALE GOAT WEBSITE CELEBRATIONS

The Carradale Goat web-site, started by Gary Sutherland but now under the equally commendable new web-master,
Johnny Durnan, contains a wealth of local news and a host of photos. Apart from an acknowledgement of the web-site
achieving a Argyll wide award for its cover of local events, in the last few weeks the ‘Carradale Goat’ has celebrated a
number of other achievements.

ROWANJOY
Rowan McIntosh, the younger daughter of Duncan and Gail McIntosh from Waterfoot, is one of the nominees for the
Scottish Sun’s award for the Best Up and Coming Artists and Designers of 2010. This talented 28 year old now lives and
works in Edinburgh and her designs are shown at the Godiva Designer Boutique, which has also been nominated.

Rowan’s own web-site - Rowanjoy contains the following background philosophy

“Launched after designer Rowan McIntosh graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2003, Rowanjoy is all about
feminine, playful and eclectic style, mixing up vintage and modern fabrics, colours and prints. Taking inspiration from
unusual sources like geeks, flashers, magician and a mad tea party, Rowanjoy is justifiably described as ‘a bit off beat’.
Choosing not to be a slave to seasonal trends each design is a progression from one piece to the next, each one is a
completely new design and quirky in its own right. Rowanjoy designs are available as part of the made to measure service”.

CERI STRANG
Carradale’s up and coming young piper Ceri Strang celebrates her 15th on the 26th of January. Ceri is the younger daughter
of Robert and Cheryl Strang from Toshs Park. Pictured is Ceri piping in the guests at Carradale Hotel of the recent
wedding of Bob Jeffrey’s daughter Lise to David.

Another youngish Carradale resident has also been celebrating. Far from retiring from the Carradale Surgery or The
Carradale Drama Club, on reaching the age of 60, she sees no reason to lay back and take things more easily - although one
picture on The Carradale Goat Web-site taken by Johnny Durnan, like all those on this page, shows her a little more
horizontal than one would expect for someone still trying to keep up with the retreating age of pension entitlement.

THE CRUBON BUOY

Sticklers about formalities may wonder why the Crubon Rock buoy is featured on this celebratory page - its often talked
about and not often seen by those without a boat, but like all Victorian things Johnny Durnan’s photo gives credence to the
saying that ‘children, (particularly buoys) should be seen but not heard’. In any case it gives a bit of balance to a mainly
female page.

Looking up the word in the Oxford dictionary produces nothing for cruban or crubon but predictably Mac-Lennan’s
Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary gives the expected - crùban - a crab fish. So should we get a bit crabbed and
insist that Trinity House rename the Crùban Rock buoy ?

LOW AND BEHOLD

What a pleasure to find on a Sunday afternoon walk that the Low Avenue quagmire has been partly cleared and, after
several years is back as an essential part of the public access paths around Carradale and through the Estate. Thanks to
those who did the work, and if different, to those who encouraged it to be cleared. Thanks also to the community-minded
individuals who, week after week, ensure that the flotsam from the beach is carried to a point where the ‘bin men’ can assist
its passage, and those who work unseen on a variety of tidying operations – we know who you are.

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 SWITCH-OVER OR SWITCH-OFF - SWITCHOVER AND RE-TUNE DATES
FOR CARRADALE AND CAMPBELTOWN DIGITAL TV
Using the Carradale transmitter, switching over between April 2011 and June 2011. Receiving a digital TV signal from the
Carradale transmitter in the STV Central TV region is your most likely transmitter. It's a relay transmitter and it's part of
the Darvel transmitter group. Your switchover dates and available channels may depend on which transmitter you receive
your television signal from.

HOP OVER, GET SOAKED OR BREAK A LEG !

Although Carradale Village Hall car park has seen a number of improvements over the last few years it still remains a
hazard.

Those arriving by for the Guild talk in the evening of Monday 1st February negotiated the pot holes at the entrance with
little or no damage to car suspensions. But coming away from the well-attended talk and with no adequate lighting it was a
matter of luck whether feet landed on a flat surface or in a four-inch deep hole filled with water.

The ramp restriction to the entrance probably helped minimise the number of boy racers doing hand-brake turns, but has
provided those attending events after dark with serious ankle-twisting problems.

Perhaps the source of finance behind the welcomed. but inappropriately named ‘Pathways to School Foot-path’, could be
persuaded to offer assistance to a new Initiative - ‘Assistance for those with ankle injuries needing to go to Hospital’. Either
that or members of the Hall Committee should be seeking assistance from any agency able to assist them to provide a
permanent repair and avoid insurance claims for injury.

UNWILLINGLY TO SOME SCHOOLS ?

SCHOOL TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
FOR SECONDARY PUPILS FROM GIGHA
Current arrangements: Currently all pupils from Gigha have the choice of attending Oban High or Campbeltown Grammar
for secondary education. This arrangement is largely historic and dates back to the period in time when it was not possible
to travel to and from the island on a daily basis.

Since daily transport has been possible, in practice all pupils have elected to attend Campbeltown Grammar as the Oban
High option was developed merely to take account of the presence of the school hostel.

School transport arrangements: In common with all other local authorities, Argyll & Bute Council organises school
transport around catchment areas. This is done within the context of the Council’s approved School Transportation Policy
which entitles all secondary pupils who have to travel more than 3 miles from home to school to free transport. The only
deviations from this arise on the grounds of special needs or road safety. Members are also asked to specifically note that
the policy makes clear that in the event of a child attending a school on the basis of a placing request, they have to bear the
cost of any transport.

Implications arising from amending the choice to Campbeltown Grammar and Tarbert Academy: In view of the current
catchment area arrangements, pupils from Gigha could only attend Tarbert Academy on the basis of a placing request.
Although this school is currently served on a daily basis by a schools local bus service running from Tayinloan, as indicated
above, the provisions of the School Transportation Policy dictate that they would have to bear the cost of transport in the
event of selecting Tarbert.

NUMBER OF PUPILS :

Presently, former pupils from Rhunahaorine can elect to attend Campbeltown Grammar or Tarbert Academy. Our records
indicate that 6 travel to each school on a daily basis, with a further 8 Gigha based pupils travelling to Campbeltown. While
it would be possible to accommodate some Gigha pupils on the Tarbert bus, this could only be done at no extra cost to the
Council while demands from entitled children remain at current levels. In other words, there is the risk that additional costs

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would have to be borne by the Council if Gigha pupils had to be accommodated. In this regard, it should be noted that
there has been a significant increase in the roll of Gigha Primary School in recent years, rising from 7 in 2002 to 22 in the
current session. Arising from this, it is understood that 3 children from Gigha will move on to secondary education within
the next school session and a further 4 will move on in the following session. The current schools local contracts in the
area are due to be re-tendered in 2011/2012 when it is anticipated that higher costs will have to be borne due to inflation.
However, it is not possible to predict the overall financial impact at this stage.

SCHOOL TRANSPORT POLICY :

The Council is regularly challenged regarding the provisions of its School Transportation Policy. In the circumstances, I
cannot recommend any deviation from the current arrangements to provide pupils from Gigha with free transport to
Tarbert. To do so would create a significant precedent which, in turn, could lead to further challenges across the Council
area. In the event of these challenges being successful, there is the distinct risk that such a deviation could have major
financial implications for the Council. In this regard, Members are asked to note that there have been recent challenges to
Council policy from Ardrishaig parents wishing free transport to Lochgilphead High School and from Islay parents wishing
dedicated transport with seat-belts for pupils.

CATCHMENT AREA :

An alternative approach would be to alter the catchment area of Tarbert Academy thereby entitling Gigha pupils to free
transportation. However, changes of this nature are not considered lightly or in isolation as they have impacts on
neighbouring schools. It should also be noted that they could only be implemented following the outcome of a formal
consultation process. Such an exercise would require the Council to consult with the parents and communities associated
with Gigha, Campbeltown and Tarbert schools. This would take several months to complete.

Members should note that I have no proposals for such a change at this stage particularly as the Council may have to deal
with more fundamental changes over the next few years within the overall context of the School Estate Strategy

Malcolm MacFadyen, Director of Community Services

9 December 2009

CARRADALE CAMERA CLUB

Programme

Date Topic Comments

22/02/10 Print Evening Close – Ups (internal judging)

08/03/10 Digital Slide Evening Winter (informal-current slides)
22/03/10 Digital Slide Evening Leading Lines (Perspective) -internal
12/04/10 Favourite Print 1 Print only for Discussion
26/04/10 Print of The Year External judge – to be decided
10/05/10 AGM Village Library (TBC)
August Annual Exhibition Village Library (TBC)

DANGERS OF EXPLORING - SHOULD I STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER

HELPFUL ADVICE SENT IN BY LEONARD MCNEILL
OF WEST LOCH FYNE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

If you keep your ear to the ground on matters of technology, perhaps you've heard about this week's scare story concerning
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's famous web browser. If so, you may well be wondering what to make of it.

The story starts with news that hackers had found a security flaw in Internet Explorer, and were targeting popular web-sites
(such as Google) to try to launch attacks on Internet Explorer users. In a nutshell, the way this works is that the hackers
deviously alter the web-site to bury some programming code into it. When an Internet Explorer user visits, this extra code
takes advantage of the security flaw in IE to install malicious software on the user's PC.

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In a short time, the hackers had also published this programming code somewhere on the Internet so that other, less-
imaginative hackers could copy it and use it themselves. In response to this, the German government issued a warning to
German web users that they should stop using Internet Explorer until this security flaw is fixed, and the French
government echoed the suggestion. (The UK government hasn't said anything much, except that it's 'monitoring the
situation'.)

If you do use Internet Explorer, I'm not going to suggest you stop using it, and I'll explain the reasons for that in a
moment. However, if you happen to use version 6 of Internet Explorer, I would strongly recommend that you upgrade to
the latest version. Even without this security scare, IE6 is a comparatively old and insecure browser, and hackers have had
an enjoyable time targeting it for several years. It's only Windows XP users that could be using IE6, and then only if you'd
resisted all attempts by the Automatic Updates feature to upgrade you to version 7 or 8 of Internet Explorer.

If you use Windows XP and you're not sure which version of Internet Explorer you're using, start it up and click Help >
About Internet Explorer to see the version number. (If you can't see the menu bar containing File, Edit, View, Favorites,
Tools and Help at the top of the window, that's a clear indication that you're using a more recent version.) If you are using
version 6, pay a visit to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie where you can download and install the latest version (free of
charge, as always).

The current security scare only targets IE6, because that's the only version with this particular security flaw. That's one
reason why I'm not suggesting you abandon Internet Explorer. Another is that all web browsers have security flaws, even
the latest versions of Internet Explorer or whatever other browser you might use in its place. A web browser has to be
'insecure' by nature : the only way it could be truly secure is by preventing you from ever accessing anything on the
Internet. That kind of web browser would be of no use to anyone, obviously, so all sorts of compromises have to be made.

The bottom line is that if you use the Internet at all, you're taking a risk, and the best you can do is to minimise that risk.
Keeping your web browser up-to-date (as the Automatic Updates feature will try to do) is an important part of that, as is
having anti-mal-ware software running on your PC (and keeping it up-to-date). Beyond that, most aspects of Internet safety
are in your own hands: recognising and ignoring scams and hoaxes, not clicking links in suspicious email messages, and so
on.

Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4796 (20100122)

THE DANGER OF EXPLODING MOBILE PHONES

A few days ago, a person was recharging his mobile phone at home. Just at that time a call came in and he answered it with
the phone still charging, the phone still connected to the outlet.

After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the floor with a
heavy thud. As you can see, the phone actually exploded. His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious,
with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers. He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Cell phones are a very useful modern invention. However, we must be aware that it can also be an instrument of death.

Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet ! If you are charging the cell phone and a call comes
in, unplug it from the charger and outlet.

Info from Peter Morrison.

THE CHARLES AND BARBARA TYRE TRUST

The Trust offers financial help to young people under the age of 25 years, who seek financial assistance to improve their
qualifications, retrain or through disability, wish to benefit from a re-creative holiday.

Applicants must be under 25 years of age, have completed their school education, be able to satisfy the Directors that they
are of the Protestant Faith and live in the former County of Argyll - which includes Kinlochleven but excludes
Helensburgh and the Island of Bute.

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Grants are available to assist applicants of both sexes -

(a) to obtain qualification additional to a degree, associate-ship, diploma or certificate of a University, or other institute of
further or higher education already obtained.

(b) to train in a trade or profession other than in which they are at present trained.

(c) to undertake a course provided by the Open University, for which they have registered or are about to register.

(d) to undertake training in leadership and initiative

(e) to benefit from re-creative holidays in cases of physical or mental disability, whether permanent or temporary.

Completed on-line applications must be received no later than 31 May in any year and successful applicants will be notified
after decisions are made toward the end of August. Applications received after the closing date will not normally be
considered except in exceptional circumstances.

Please note application forms will be accepted before examination results are received.

Clerk to the Governors, Charles and Barbara Tyre Trust, 168 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4TP
Tel: 0141 566 7000 Fax: 0141 566 7001

Further details may be obtained from the Clerk to the Governors. An Application Form also appears on the web-site
http://www.charlesandbarbaratyretrust.org.uk

Copies and general advice can also be obtained from G. F. Page Telephone 01583 431281

TORRISDALE MEMORIES
Some very favourable comments have come in following John McMillan’s description of life in Torrisdale in the 1930’s.

Another member of John’s class at Carradale School had been meaning to write of his experiences but was beaten to the
Editor’s computer by his classmate. However, all is not lost as other information is expected about those halcyon days
when piped water was as rare as an absence of herring. While the Editor, like John McMillan, has fond memories of
Torrisdale, few readers are prepared to record similar feelings of Carradale. Was it that life in the larger village had nothing
to commend it or simply that those who were raised there would rather that their children and ‘incomers’ knew nothing of
the privations and pleasures of a childhood spent in such idyllic surroundings ?

FROM THE COURIER TO THE WORLD

Whatever locals say about The Campbeltown Courier, there is general agreement that Friday is ‘Courier Day’; few would
deliberately miss purchasing the current edition simply because, in comparison to The Oban Times, you pay a little less for
a lot smaller publication. Over the course of time The Courier has been the starting point from some very successful
careers.

One remembers the residencies of the author and playwright Angus M'Vicar, the excellent essays of Hector McSporran, the
wide range of appointments held by Hamish Mackinven and, more recently, the television reporting of Jamie McIver.
Several took the road to Aberdeen to work for The Press & Journal; others made the transition from The Courier, to
London-based daily newspapers, periodicals and specialist journals.

Unhappily one or two reporters succumbed to the major health problems of their time. Robert Taylor, for instance, uncle
of Hamish Mackinven was responsible for suggesting a name the vessel which was the subject of last month’s feature article
by Donald Kelly - he died from tuberculosis in his early thirties. So next time you are tempted to say of The Courier or
The Antler that there is not much in the current edition – whose fault is it ? Would it not be better if the Editors had an
embarrassment of local reports, essays and letters to choose from ? A newspaper is a success only in so far as it stimulates
a positive reaction. Groans don’t make good copy !

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 QUIZZLE 9 RESULTS
Thank you and well done to all those who supported and who took part in Quizzle 9 thereby raising £212.80 for Carradale
Village Hall There was a good response with many locals, their relatives and friends taking part so it again amassed a
national, even an international audience.

Sixteen entries were returned for marking and it was a close competition, the winner doing so by a margin of just a single
point. Once again, it took some time to research legitimate & permissible alternatives on the Internet. Answers were very
inventive but some had to be rejected. Never the less, full marks for ingenuity.

Congratulations and a cash prize of £53.20 goes to Donald and Mary Macalister Hall - the overall winners with all answers
correct. The joint runners-up were Ian Currie and Chris Chantler (from Bath). They were just one answer short of the full
compliment. Margaret Walsh and Gail McIntosh were close behind, both with just three answers short.

Tony and I continue to be amazed by the on-going interest in what is now seems to have become an annual Carradale
institution. By popular demand we will try to bring out Quizzle 10 in November. In the meantime Happy Quizzling &
quizzing in 2010. M. L.

VILLAGE HALL QUIZZLE 9 (2009) - IN AID OF CARRADALE VILLAGE HALL FUNDS

E.g. 7D in a W = 7 days in a week 3BM = 3 Blind mice

1. 11,12 D & D 11,12 dig and delve

2. 2W on a T 2 wheels on a tandem
3. 3,2,1 DB 3,2,1 Dusty Bin
4. 2W in a F. 2 weeks in a fortnight
5. 33V in the HB 33 vertebrae in the human body
6. 360 D in a C 360 degrees in a circle
7. The M7 The Magnificent 7
8. YSF10 (UC) Your starter for 10 (University Challenge).
9. The 39S The 39 steps.
10. 4 & 20 TWTKaS 4&20 Tailors went to kill a snail.

11. 13 - UFS 13 unlucky for some

12. The 12 L of H The 12 labours of Hercules
13. 2 WDMaR 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
14. 14P in a S 14 pounds in a stone
15. 1801 the FC 1801 the first census
16. 366 D in a LY 366 days in a leap year
17. 21 the N of S on a D 21 the number of spots on a die/dice
18. R6(TC) Rainbow 6 (Tom Clancy).
19. 76T in the BP 76 trombones in the big parade
20. 6B in an O 6 balls in an over

21. The 5S (S,H,T,S &T) [ATA] The 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell & taste) [According to Aristotle]
22. 100D in a M 100 decades in a millennium
23. R-a-D-D3M in a T Rub- a- dub- dub 3 men in a tub
24. 2 D in the BS 2 digits in the binary system
25. 10E in the D 10 events in the Decathlon
26. P23 TLIMS Psalm 23 The Lord is my Shepherd
27. 7B for 7B 7 Brides for 7 Brothers
28. 14S of the C on GF 14 Stations of the Cross on Good Friday
29. The 2G of V (S) The 2 gentlemen of Verona.(Shakespeare)
30. IS3SCSI I saw 3 ships come sailing in

31. 19,20 MPE 19,20 my plate’s empty

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32. 4F in an OP 4 farthings in an old penny
33. 21C in the A 21 consonants in the alphabet
34. a3-PT a 3 point turn
35. 2H on a C 2 hulls on a catamaran
36. 8Q in a S 8 quavers in a semi-breve
37. The 5GL The 5 Great Lakes
38. 5L & 2F (the F of the FT) 5 loaves & 2 fishes(feeding of the five thousand)
39. 4W&aF 4 Weddings and a Funeral
40. 12- C on the RS 12 – Catastrophic on the Richter Scale

41. The N1LDA The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

42. 2000H-EOC. Twenty hundred hours- eight o’clock
43. 78 TC in a STD 78 Tarot cards in a standard Tarot deck
44. The 7 DS The 7 Deadly sins
45. XI is11in RN XI is 11 in Roman Numerals
46. a FH - 3 of a K & a P a full house - 3 of a kind and a pair
47. 1S is 9I 1 span is 9 inches
48. 5072M- HRSITW(TP) 5072metres- highest railway station in the world (Tangula Pass)
49. 8B in a B 8 bits in a byte
50. 7H in YH ! 7 holes in your head !

51. SS – 40 YO Sesame Street – 40 years old

52. 1605 GFTTBUP 1605 Guy Fawkes tries to blow up Parliament
53. JLC – DA122 (WOW) Jeanne Louise Calmet – died age 122 (world’s oldest woman)
54. 111111111SE12345678987654321 11 11 squared equals 123…321
55. L has 58 L Llanfairpwll…..ogoch has 58 letters
56. 12L in the HA 12 letters in the Hawaiian Alphabet
57. 17D1903 FPF 17 December 1903 First Powered Flight
58. 1823, CMI the M 1823, Charles Macintosh invented the Macintosh
59. CDD = 120mm Compact Disk Diameter = 120mm

NAMES - The following clues will reveal a Christian, first or fore name.
e.g. I am beside a testament = William (will+I+ am)

60. Gran is there at the start of tropical storm. Nancy (nan + cyclone)
61. It’s its own abbreviation with hesitation. Alexander (Alex + and +er)
62. Write a letter alongside change. Walter (W+ alter)
63. Mixed portal joins your old word. Dorothy (door-doro+ thy)
64. Fish with head cut off. Una (tuna-T)

CONTINUE THE SEQUENCE

indicated by the following sets of letters (a missing letter/ number for every asterisk (*))
e.g. J, F, M, A, M *,*, *. J, J, A. (June, July, August)

65. 31, 28, 31, 30, *, *, *, *, 31, 30, 31, 31.(days of calendar months in sequence May – August)
66. H, H, L, B, *, *, *, * B, C, N, O (Periodic table hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, boron, carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen)
67. G, G, G, G, W, V, E *, *, *, *. G, E, G, E (George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II )
68. C, A, P, A, *, *, *, *, T, G, C, L (Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo.)
69. D, R, M, F, S, *, *, *. L. T, D (lah, te, doh)

PUZZLERS THAT PRODUCE UK PLACE NAMES

70. Perhaps a bus is not allowed to cross here ! Carrbridge

71. Not a warm place to bathe ? Coldstream
72. Sounds like yes, for a South African, by a gaping hole Yarmouth
73. Union destination of flight ? Gretna

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74. Part of a ship ? Hull
75. A bird followed by how old it is ? Swanage (swan+age)
76. A once jammy, jute and journalistic place ? Dundee
77. Place in South Africa that’s lost direction London (East London)
78. Boundary next to a place of worship ? Kirkwall
79. Monarch has a musical instrument ? Kinghorn
80. ANAGRAM TEASER - Rearrange the 21 letters of: “ANY LABOUR I DO WANTS TIME” into another saying
with similar sentiments = “Rome was not built in a day”.

Congratulations to Margaret and Tony for producing another well researched and testing Quizzle - yet another example of
dedicated voluntary action to preserve community facilities. Ed

SOUTH KINTRE SENIORS FORUM

Meeting held on Thursday 14 January 2010 in Kinloch Hall, Campbeltown

Present : George McMillan (Chair), John A Catherine Mclntyre, Judith Falconer, Florence Lamont, Mary Margaret Hanna,
Jean Millar, Marjorie Sillies, Emily McDonald, Ian Teesdale (Secretary). Apologies: Janet Russell, Ailsa Stewart, Isabel
Johnson, Margaret Turner, Val Cannell, Douglas McKerral.

The meeting began with a presentation by Lindsay Fox-Denham, Area Co-ordinator for Lomond and Argyll Advocacy
Service. Lindsay brought along two volunteer members of staff, Mary Graham and Elaine Hemmings, both of whom
helped with the presentation. Lindsay's office telephone number is 01546 606 056 but it may be easier to contact her via her
mobile telephone 07810 823 300. The team stressed that the service is entirely independent of any of the statutory bodies
such as Social Services or the NHS and is committed solely to helping ordinary people express their views and problems in
as clear and effective way as possible. George McMillan thanked them on our behalf for their time and trouble in describing
their services and how it tries to carry out its remit.

THE AGM : After some discussion as to how we should proceed, John McIntyre proposed that the officers and
committee be re-elected en bloc for a further year, a motion seconded by Mary Margaret Hanna. There being no dissenting
view the Chairman declared the motion passed. He did however give notice that he would not accept a nomination at the
end of the current year for a further year as Chairman.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS : Ian Teesdale (Secretary) distributed copies of Help the Aged/ Age Concern booklet ‘Hot
Tips’, about how people in our age group can best cope with the winter cold. He said Help the Aged were asking (via a
questionnaire) for feedback on the booklet. There was only 1 copy of the questionnaire so he was asked to obtain copies
and pass them to the members present. He asked members to try and complete the questionnaire and bring it to the next
meeting.

George raised the matter of Notice of Planning Applications. He said he understood the Council are proposing to publish
such notices on line in the future and discontinue putting them in the local newspaper. He objects to this since many
elderly people do not have a computer nor have the skills to use those available in Aqualibrium. The meeting supported this
view. Secretary to write to Argyll & Bute Council (ABC) accordingly.

TRANSPORT ISSUES AT CARRADALE : George referred to the recent letter from Douglas Blades (ABC Public
Transport Officer) about these matters. He sees little point in discussing the matter in Campbeltown with almost
exclusively Campbeltown members present. He proposed a deputation go to Carradale, himself, Ian Teesdale and a
volunteer from the floor, Mary Margaret Hanna volunteered, to discuss on site with whoever would be a suitable Carradale
person or group. Secretary to arrange.

George offered to bring his small music group to one of our meetings to play for us. The meeting liked the idea and details
will be given at a future date.

NEXT MEETING - As agreed last year our next meeting, on Thursday 11 February, 2010, will be in Tayinloan at 2
pm. Secretary to book Tayinloan Village Hall accordingly.

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