/will no longer be welcome at the céilidh.

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They've been there before. I remember going on a family holiday to Ullapool (in the Scottish Highlands) when I was a kid in the late 70s, and there were loads of Russians wandering about - there used to be up to around 50-60 Russian / Eastern European boats docked there at any given time. It seemed exotic, what with it being Cold War era and all, to hear Russian being spoken. Us kids thought they were spies (who knows, maybe they were), and that James Bond was going to sort them out.

Spiralmonkey: They've been there before. I remember going on a family holiday to Ullapool (in the Scottish Highlands) when I was a kid in the late 70s, and there were loads of Russians wandering about - there used to be up to around 50-60 Russian / Eastern European boats docked there at any given time. It seemed exotic, what with it being Cold War era and all, to hear Russian being spoken. Us kids thought they were spies (who knows, maybe they were), and that James Bond was going to sort them out.

Ullapool is not far from Loch Ewe, which has a couple of "Z Berths" for nuclear submarines, and a NATO refueling jetty. Not only that, it's also near the infamous "Anthrax Island" of Gruinard. I can see why there might be Soviet interest in the area.

Just one ping Vasily.

Toll is gonna be three fiddy?

I am very disappointed with the Russians. I thought they would know better
than to invade the British Isles from the wrong end.

There's a Scottish tartan book right behind his head.

You'd think he'd know better than to wear a Gordon dress waistcoat with a McCleod tie and a Stewart dress bonnet. What is he? American?

Hee, hee, hee. I'm just joshing you.

I did a GIS for tartans.

And there's no law against being a loony, so you can clash if you wanna, you can clash like a nekkid ginger Scotsman after a days in the Sun on the Costa del Sol.