Poppycock
Posted: Sunday, 13 August 2006 |
2 comments |
I am rather surprised that Arnish Lighthouse hasn't mentioned anything about the new restoration project in Stornoway commemorating that wonderful period when the island was owned by opium dealers in the shape of Jardine Matheson.
The town fathers are to be congratulated on resurrecting the memory of a trade that continues today in the ghettos of all our major towns and cities. I think a balance should be struck however and I look forward to a huge sculpture of a bottle of Lea and Perrins sauce at the ferry terminal and a twenty foot box of soap powder in the main car park in memory of Lord Leverhulme.
Posted on calumannabel at 10:39
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Pity that Matheson wasn't female, it would have elevated "her" to a heroin of the opium trade.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
Good craic!
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