The Phantom Backpacker
The big, wide, open spaces can always get to you. But on several occasions this year β especially over the Monalidth β we encountered a phantom backpacker. We’d see the backpacker, get closer, and then find they’d disappeared.
Bearing in mind Shirley was looking for ghosts and ghouls we wondered whether this was due to her physic sensitivities (something that neither I not Colin suffer from).
Here is the only picture I got when we seemed to see the phantom having a lunch break. There was a suggestion that this could be Humphrey, king of the Monalidth, but he didn’t go that way this year.
We saw the phantom again on a few occasions. I’m sure Shirl will elaborate.
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The face on the right side reminds me of Winnie in the Beckett play Happy Days buried up to her neck.
By Des on 06.12.09 3:49 pm
It’s a ‘grit table’ the keepers make for the grouse. They dig a big lump of peat up, turn it over and scatter grit on top. I think it helps the grouse in some way – but willing to be corrected on this!
By alan.sloman on 06.12.09 4:31 pm
*wee shiverlet*
How on earth can you make light of The Phantom Backpacker??? It was terrifying!
*reaches for the garlic and crosses Piglet’s paw with silver*
By Peewiglet on 06.12.09 5:05 pm
When we got to the place it had been, it had gone. Very spooky.
By andy on 06.12.09 5:11 pm
Real ghouls don’t do lunch …
By HMP3 on 06.13.09 10:29 am
Alan is right, the grit (medicated grit)(see http://www.chance-hunt.com/nutrition/feedproductssubcats/specialityprods_subs/grousegrit.html ) is put out by keepers for grouse to prevent strongylosis. From comments Iβve seen somewhere, Alan crossed, at on point, near Lochindorb. Here Alan would have seen hundreds of white wooden stakes with grit boxes below.
Rob fae Craigellachie
By Robert Ince on 06.13.09 4:30 pm
Spot on “Rob fae Craigellachie” – all over the shop! Indeed all over the grouse moors I waltzed across this year. Nice to hear waht i’s for though – Thank you!
By alan.sloman on 06.18.09 4:35 pm
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