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The new Range Rover comes in a number of colours. If you find your way to their website, you'll see that the gloomiest colour option is called ... "Stornoway Grey".

Is Stornoway really that grey? Or is it a different shade of grey? What colour is Harris and Berneray, then? Or the Shetlund or Orkney islands?

One of the elderly councillors in Stornoway has, possibly unwisely, started a caption competition on his blog. The picture features himself on the left, and the First Minister of Scotland on the right. It is here:

We got a heck of a haul of scallops yesterday, from the sea bed off Berneray. 70 grabbed by one person in 30 minutes.



So there they all are, laid out on the kitchen table. And very angry about it, snapping away and spitting water and watnots at anything that comes close.



Not as angry as they'd be if they knew the fate that was shortly to befall them.



They're odd, and quite alien, creatures to look at close up. This was the source of much debate, on how much of a plant they were and how much of an animal. Decided in the end, with their slowly opening and quickly snapping jaws, that they were a close aquatic relative of the Venus Fly Trap.



They're also not too pleasant to look at when you realise that you'll be eating some of that later. The more squeamish people are spared further pictures of scallops; there are more pictures of for braver people.



Still, that's several meals for us, some in the freezer, and some given away to others around Berneray. Amazing what you can find, that's edible, just beyond the bottom of your garden.