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[reggae-vibes-com]

Aswad drummer & singer Drummie Zeb has died

Angus "Drummie Zeb" Gaye (1959-2022) Drummer and lead singer for British reggae band Aswad, Angus Gaye pka Drummie Zeb, died in London on Friday at the age of 62. The iconic British reggae band released a statement on Facebook in which they confirmed the death of their frontman. "It is with deepest regret and profound loss that we have to announce the passing of our brother Angus ‘Drummie’ Gaye. Drummie was the lead vocalist for the iconic band Aswad and is much loved and respected by both family, friends and peers alike. More information will be given at a later time but on behalf of his family and Aswad — we ask that their privacy is respected at this heart-breaking time. Drummie has left us to join our ancestors and leaves a huge void both personally and professionally.” The original members of Aswad, which was formed in London during the mid-1970s were guitarist/vocalist Brinsley "Chaka B" Forde, drummer/vocalist Angus "Drummie Zeb" Gaye, lead guitarist/vocalist Donald "Dee" Griffiths, bassist George "Ras" Oban, and keyboardist Courtney "Khaki" Hemmings. Initially, the band produced music in the roots reggae vein, with members contributing songs individually and with Brinsley Forde acting as the band's principal songwriter. The band's dynamic soon began to change however. Shortly after the release of their self-titled debut album in 1976, Hemmings left and was replaced by Tony "Gad" Robinson (the only time in the band's history where a departing member would be officially replaced by an incoming musician). The band then released their second studio effort called "Hulet", in 1978, before Oban departed the band in 1979, with Robinson taking over the position of bassist as well as continuing his role as keyboardist. The following year saw Griffiths depart, leaving Forde as the band's sole guitarist. During this early period in the band's history they were distinctly different from Jamaican reggae acts in that they wrote songs that dealt with the issues surrounding the experiences of black youths growing up in the UK; such as "Three Babylon", "It's Not Our Wish", and the powerful instrumental "Warrior Charge". Once the band's line-up had stabilised into the trio of Forde, Gaye, and Robinson, Aswad followed a more commercial reggae style, gaining a wider audience with the 1981 "New Chapter" album. They then followed this with the Michael Reuben Campbell produced "A New Chapter of Dub" LP, which was a dub of the entire New Chapter album. In August 1982, Aswad played live at Meanwhile Gardens on the Sunday of the Notting Hill Carnival. The resulting live album titled "Live And Direct" with Drummie Zeb’s passionate performance being outstanding. It won him widespread acclaim. When the band’s sound started to become more commercial, Drummie Zeb assumed most of the lead vocal duties on songs like the band's 1988 UK No. 1 hit, "Don’t Turn Around" (originally recorded by Tina Turner) as well as "Give A Little Love" and and a reggae-flavoured rendition of The Eagles' "Best of My Love". Aswad underwent their first line-up change in sixteen years in 1996, when Brinsley Forde departed the band for spiritual reasons, leaving Drummie Zeb as the only founding member. Once again, they opted not to seek to recruit a replacement musician, and thus Aswad became a duo of Angus Gaye and Tony Robinson. the band's line-up remained the same until Drummie Zeb's untimely death. (Photo courtesy of Rik de Blick)Ads Check Aswad Music

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[deepartnature]

New Age Steppers – Stepping Into A New Age 1980 - 2012

“... An anthology set of the group that launched the On-U Sound label with the first album and single, New Age Steppers were a collective with an evolving line-up, built around the driving forces of Ari Up (The Slits) and producer Adrian Sherwood. Their records featured contributions from several singers and players from the UK post-punk vanguard such as the Pop Group, The Raincoats and The Flying Lizards; colliding with established movers from the reggae world such as Bim Sherman, Style Scott and George Oban. Contains the following discs: New Age Steppers (1981), Action Battlefield (1981), Foundation Steppers (1983), Love Forever (2012), Avant Gardening (a new compilations of rare dubs, version excursions and unreleased tracks from the vault) plus 32 page book containing photos, ephemera and a new sleevenotes by Oli Warwick that trace the history of the group via conversations with Adrian Sherwood and other contributors. ...”

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Discogs (Video)

2010 October: Ari Up (17 January 1962 – 20 October 2010), 2012 July: Subatomic Sound System meets Lee Scratch Perry & Ari Up of the Slits (7″ vinyl), 2014 September: Live in Cincinnati and San Francisco 1980, 2015 August: Return Of The Giant Slits (1981/2007), 2016 July: "Man Next Door" - Berlin 1981, 2021 April: Avant Gardening - New Age Steppers (2021), 2022 September: Typical Girls/I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1979)

[techvercy]

George Orwell’s wild island retreat

George Orwell’s wild island retreat

Leaving Oban harbour, the water spills out in front of us like a bolt of silk. The general landscape is loosely familiar to me — the chalky light, the veil of Scottish mizzle, the craggy bowls and notches of the reddish inland glens — but not the detail. My parents lived nearby when they were first married. In the 1970s, after they moved further south to Dumfries and Galloway, we sometimes…

[walkingphotos]

Today's Walking Photos: When it’s Monday and you should be doing your walk but suddenly you have to go pick up your wife because her downtown business has been ordered to evacuate by the police because they’re closing down several blocks in preparation for the fourth evening in a row of protests…

…you remember there are these photos that you’ve never shared from your Scotland trip last summer that feels like long long ago in a galaxy far far away…so you go to those for a brief little emotional time-out.

Oban, sweet little harbor city and the seat of the MacDougall clan.

The peaceful waters of Loch Fyne, from the friendly little town of Inveraray.

Very old Midwifery door in Glasgow.

Scottish Highland cattle on the gorgeous Isle of Mull.

Part of the Three Sisters Range near Glencoe, Scotland.

Other Scotland photos can be found here. Sure do hope to go back someday. Sure do hope tonight is relatively uneventful.

[aic-asian]

Year-end Fair at Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryuzan toshi no ichi), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)", Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. George Mann Medium: Color woodblock print; oban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47771/

[page-28]

RIP George Oban obituary by Dave Hucker. Very sad to report the death of local legend and founder member of Aswad, bass player George Oban. Aswad formed in 1975, but George left in 1979, to continue his subtle but melodic tough bass playing on a multitude of records and for various artists operating in a wide area of music - reggae, lovers rock, rock and experimental. After leaving Aswad he formed a band called Motion, he then was a mainstay of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label, recording with New Age Steppers, Dub Syndicate, African Head Charge. Other reggae artists he recorded with included Lee Scratch Perry and Burning Spear. His playing also graced recordings from local journo turned musician Vivien Goldman and her band Chantage, Bristol’s Mark Stewart and the Maffia, artist Judy Nylon and Patti Paladin. One of his last recordings, he played on a new upcoming album from reggae star Horace Andy. A true gentleman and very sweet person he will be missed greatly. I used to enjoy bumping into him on the street and having a catch up.

George Oban recalled during Bob Marley and the Wailers’ ‘Exodus’ sessions, ‘Basing Street was a home from home. I was there when Carl Peterson, Bro’ Bob Marley and Blackwell was mixing ‘Exodus’. I ask Blackwell for a spliff from his Thai sticks, and when he refused Bob said, “Give the yout a spliff.” It was like a club house at times. I recorded bass with the Royal Rass, who gave me two hours at the end of his session, and we - Drummie Tony Robinson, Mike Campbell and Ann Howard who sang ‘No Man is an Island Motion’, we were like the SAS, in and out in the allotted time. What’s on the vinyl is the monitor mix, and the second Aswad album was recorded there. Lucky Gordon would cook for the Wailers and Blackwell, Bob had his own chef.’ During the 1976 Carnival (or 77?) George said they had a mini-stage set up on Basing Street outside the Island studios, when ‘we could hear this roar coming from Acklam Road - the start of the riots - so we picked up all the gear and went to the Metro club, set up our gear and started to do the set - gig again, when we look in the audience it was Bob, Family Man and Carlton Barrett, talk about bricking it.’

[kaatsound]

R.I.P. GEORGE “RAS LEVI” OBAN [ June 11, 1954 ☆ January 18, 2022 ]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

My dad had a pal called George who had a boat. It was a sailing boat but not a very big one – 25ft long. I don’t think you could call it a yacht; it didn’t seem very … yachty. I’m trying to downplay its yachtiness, and how privileged my childhood was, but it’s hopeless. I was on a bloody yachting holiday, OK?

Anyway, despite his boat’s modest size, George was quite adventurous once aboard. One summer, he invited my dad to help him sail it from the west coast of Scotland (I’m thinking maybe Oban) down to the south coast of England. I was 15 or 16 at the time and my dad took me – grumpily, adolescently – along for the ride.

George and my dad were old and annoying, obviously, but other things were OK. I read, and dreamed, and there might have been a Sony Walkman. We saw puffins and basking sharks, it was sunny, I got a tan (burned), plus I had a bottle of something called Sun In that gradually turned my hair an unpleasant yellow.

Sometimes we sailed through the night and I took a shift, a “watch”, as we say at sea. It was the 1980s and children were put to work; health and safety – like factor 50 sun cream – had yet to be invented.

I remember one particular night. I must have had the middle watch, from midnight to four, because it was dark. I was at the tiller, alone, except for the two old snoring dudes asleep downstairs. But I could forget about them: it felt as if I was in charge. There was a little wind: just enough to be going places, heading south through the Irish Sea. It was a little bit scary but also magical.

Phosphorescence of the sea is a phenomenon that comes from the luminous, sparkly glow emanating from millions of tiny marine organisms. They emit light when the water they are in is disturbed, churned up by a boat passing through, for example. There was phosphorescence in the sea that night, so that we – I – seemed to be sailing along the Milky Way. Then, above us was another sparkling path, the actual Milky Way; stars like you only see at sea, or possibly in the middle of a desert. Shooting stars, too, like fireworks fired down from the heaven, most probably by God.

Whoa! Steady on: let’s not get carried away. But it was definitely a moment: a teenage epiphany that I was just a tiny part of something much bigger, and possibly more important.

I could even add to the firmament myself, by lighting up a sneaky Marlboro. Now I really was a grownup. Actually, I was still learning, but here was a good place to practise because the wind blew the smoke and my spluttering away, and kept my new-found hobby, which I would work hard at for the next 20 years, a secret from my dad.

I have to admit, the idea of spending two weeks of my summer with my dad and George hadn’t exactly filled me with joy. Why couldn’t we go to Spain, like normal people, to the beach, to a waterpark? But you know what? It wasn’t so bad. I didn’t do much sailing for many years. Until recently. Now I have a friend with a boat a bit bigger than George’s. It’s probably a yacht. Sometimes my friend asks me along, sometimes I get to take my family. We’re going next week – to Oban, as it happens.

[The Guardian]

[eaglesnick]

All Our Yesterdays: Day 170

 09.01.20. Mail Online:

“Boris Johnson “one of Europe’s bravest politicians”- Hungarian PM Orban."

With friends like this who needs enemies?

Viktor Oban is a right-wing, populist, homophobic, anti-immigration, anti-Semitic , anti-democratic leader who George Clooney describes as a man who spreads ‘hate and anger’.

That description of the Hungarian leader by George Clooney, could equally be applied to Donald Trump. We all witnessed on our screens the storming of the Capitol by fanatical Trump supporters, followed a few hours later by many former Trumpians in the Republican Party denouncing the man they had formally supported. (The phrase ‘rats deserting a sinking ship springs to mind!)

07.01.21. The Telegraph:

“Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump after Capitol violence.”

Well done Boris for voicing what many of us here in Britain were feeling. But wait, wasn’t it the same Boris Johnson who said that he wished he could use Twitter to influence people in the same way as President Trump? (Independent 06.07.17)

Wasn’t it the same Boris Johnson who said Trump had  'many, many good qualities.’?

And wasn’t it the same Boris Johnson who said Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

“...I dont see why he’s any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama"

Just like those Republicans who refused to call out Trump as he tested the very limits of American democracy, so our own Prime Minister spent the time toadying up to this known “racist, misogynist bully'. No wonder then, that Viktor Orban of Hungary is such a big fan of Boris Johnson.

[c-40]

A-T-2 248 Adrian Sherwood/On-U Sound

"What I’d done up to that time from the age of 17 to then - which was 22 or something - was run labels. I had a distribution company, but I’d run labels and done my first production."

Before On-U Sound Adrian Sherwood ran the Hitrun label, On-U was a move to release his productions. Founded in 1981 and with a bunch of releases now under his belt Sherwood ups the ante in 1982

On-U Sound release the original 10" disco plates across 1982-1983

Adrian Sherwood got to record Bim Sherman through his relationship with Prince Far I, he flew him to the UK, Bim's first night in England he stayed at Sherwood's mum's house. DP2 is Bim Sherman's Revolution. Singers & Players Too Much Work Load takes the b side, they were another collective with personnel such as Ari-Up, Mikey Dread, Prince Far I, Bim Sherman and members of Creation Rebel. Too Much Work Load as a title is funny, On-U's output was becoming prolific, performers like Deadly Headley, George Oban, Style Scott, Eskimo Fox, Jarrett Tomlinson, and Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah were playing on everything in those early days

Creation Rebel's Independent Man is number three. Adrian Sherwood had been producing Creation Rebel since his Hitrun label days, members were part of the collective On-U Sound house band

Noah House of Dread was catalogue number DP 6, I don't know if there is a DP 5. On-U also put out an album by Noah, he also led African Head Charge who release their second studio album Environmental Studies (I think it should have been called Snakeskin Tracksuit, it's a great title)

Dinosaur's Lament

Beri Beri

In 2016 a 10" disco plate was released for RSD featuring different mixes of African Head Charge tracks from this period, including Beri Version (I wish he'd left in the false start)

To push home my point Adrian Sherwood had stepped up On-U Sound in 1982 here are some of the artists whose albums he released that year, Deadly Headley (A-T-2 109,) Mark Stewart And The Maffia, Judy Nylon (A-T-2 287,) Bim Sherman, two albums from Singers & Players, a Creation Rebel reissue, Dub Syndicate released their debut album The Pounding System (Ambience In Dub.) My mate was saying how he was excited by the idea of Acid Jazz but it never reached his expectation. The Pounding System (Ambience In Dub) is a fine dub album but it falls short of being an ambient dub album

Humourless Journalists Work to Rules

Playgroup was another arrangement of On-U Sound players. The album Epic Sound Battles Chapter One was meant to be On-U LP 10 but ended up being released by Cherry Red Records

And finally Singers & Players - Dungeon, Merchant Ship, Jah Army Band (Feat Prince Far I and Bim Sherman)

[loveintheafternoooon]

Love in the afternoon #59 Separated, isolated or simply bored (?).. what are you gonna do for Valentine this Sunday ? Here's a mix for lovers only recorded by Bay Area DJ and Radio alHara resident Passionfruit aka Tana Yonas. Smooth... Manu Dibango - Besoka on Salsa Erick Cosaque - Guadeloupe, île de mes amours Marius Cultier - Qui coulè Manman-ou Bobby Hutcherson - Montara Lonnie Liston Smith - Summer Nights George Oban - Basshoven Tyrone Davis - In the Mood Eddie Kendricks - Intimate Friends Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness Gene Harris - Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong Marlena Shaw - Feel Like Making Love Sylvia Robinson - Gimme A Little Action Tommy Mcgee - Make Sure Key & Cleary - Since I Lost Your Love Portrait taken by Bruce Davidson in NYC subway in 1980

[sciencespies]

Trove of Musket Balls Sent to Aid Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite Rebellion Found

https://sciencespies.com/history/trove-of-musket-balls-sent-to-aid-bonnie-prince-charlies-jacobite-rebellion-found/

Trove of Musket Balls Sent to Aid Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite Rebellion Found

Amateur archaeologists in Scotland have discovered a cache of musket balls and other artifacts connected to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which attempted to restore the Stuart dynasty to the United Kingdom’s throne, the Oban Times reports.

Paul Macdonald, Gary Burton and Gary McGovern—all members of the Conflicts of Interest battlefield archaeology group—were surveying a field in the Scottish Highlands this September when they found what appeared to be part of a shipment from France to the Jacobite rebels.

As Macdonald writes in a Facebook post, the trove—which included 215 musket balls, coins, and gold and gilt buttons—was buried near the ruins of a croft house on the shore of Loch nan Uamh. The property once belonged to Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic tutor to Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, or the Young Pretender.

“We knew there were arms landed in the area and it then became a matter of narrowing down where they might be,” Macdonald tells BBC News.

Charles was the grandson of James II, king of England, Scotland and Ireland. A Catholic ruler, James was exiled after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which found his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, William of Orange, assuming control of the crown. The Stuart dynasty ended in 1714 with the death of Mary’s sister and successor, Queen Anne.

In July 1745, Charles traveled to Scotland in an attempt to take back the throne. Arriving with only about a dozen troops, he soon managed to raise an army of thousands, mainly made up of Highlanders. Though the Jacobites won a number of early victories, they were ultimately defeated by much larger English opposition forces. The uprising drew to a decisive close with a loss at the Battle of Culloden on April 16, 1746.

The British roundly defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army at the Battle of Culloden.

(Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

As Hamish MacPherson notes for the National, the English Duke of Cumberland’s army killed 1,500 to 2,000 Jacobite soldiers at Culloden Moor. Macdonald says the shipment his group discovered arrived two weeks after the uprising’s forces were defeated—too late to be of use.

Prior to the Battle of Culloden, France had also sent money to support the Jacobites’ efforts—but these funds were intercepted by Royal Navy ships, according to Jacqueline Riding of History Extra.

“This discovery truly is a remarkable find and confirms that Louis XV was trying to assist the Jacobites,” MacPherson writes. “And no wonder as King George [II] had sent British troops to join the armies against France and her allies in the War of the Austrian Succession.”

Per the Scotsman’s Alison Campsie, Charles wandered the Highlands and islands for five months after his defeat. He then left Scotland, departing from Loch nan Uamh and heading back to France. Following the revolt’s failure, the British government implemented harsh policies aimed at dismantling the Highlands’ clan system and eliminating the Jacobite cause once and for all.

“From what the finds tell us to date, the musket balls were cast for use, yet never fired and correspond with the same caliber of musket balls landed nearby with French arms for the Jacobite Rising by the ships Mars and Bellone on the 30th April 1746,” Macdonald writes on Facebook. “The arms were, of course, landed a couple of weeks after the Battle of Culloden and never saw service, but were rapidly distributed and hidden locally.”

BBC News reports that the new find has been reported to Scotland’s Treasure Trove, which works to protect archaeological discoveries.

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[aquariumdrunkard]

Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Music Is The Key (A Mixtape)

“Sing a simple song, you can’t go wrong” // Some slow and mellow songs for these not so mellow times …

Henry Franklin – Soft Spirit / Patrice Rushen – 7/73 / Cesar Mariano & Cia. – Poluição / Richard Henn & Company – Squeeze Box / Macky Feary Band – Island Smile / Motion (George Oban) – Rainbow / Bernard Wright – Music is the Key / Leon Ware – Musical Massage / General Lee And The Space Army Band – We Did It Baby (Pt. 1) / Pharaoh Sanders – Love Will Find a Way /// compiled by Phil Cho

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[babysackville]

Sunday 20th July 1828

8 10/60

2

Q

Cleaned teeth and a very little motion then some time talking to her and got into bed again for twenty minutes and finally up at nine –

Breakfast at 10 ¼ - we have really been made very comfortable here – our dinners nicely cooked and clean beds – our landlord, Angus Cameron, yesterday recognised Miss McLean remembered herself long since in Charlotte Square Edinburgh – delighted to see her – 20 years since he settled here, on Friday. 1 of his sons drove us yesterday – off at 11 ¼ to cross the ferry – the little white inn on the South side, the ferry kept too by an Angus Cameron, but born Angus Mc. Master and changed his name because he liked Cameron better -

In the cart and off from the South side the ferry at 11 25/60 – fine drive along Loch Leven – surrounding  mountains very fine - At 12 40/60 having for sometime lost sight of the loch ‘Duror Inn’ nice little white Inn – apparently plenty of good stabling – a gig standing out near the stabling at a little distance from the house – surely one might sleep there comfortably – nice neat white church and school house ? manse? and a row of 3 or 4 white blue slated cottages and scattered straw thatched (the thatch everywhere here abouts kept down with long sticks or sometimes straw cords) huts, and stream and nice green wooded glen – Glen Duror – 

At 12 50/60 crossed 1 arch stone bridge over the Duror water and (left) another of those upright stones (memorial stones?) as at Altyre near Forres and views of Loch Leven again – at 1 leave Glen Duror, come down upon Loch Linnhe and pursue our road close along the water’s edge – very fine drive – the Loch and down to its western edge the lofty rugged bare [precipitous] mountains of Ardgour, very fine – at 1 50/60 road still along the water’s edge, shaded (left) by the word of Appin house Robert Dowie Esquire M.P. (Scottish Tourist 381/415) who according to Miss McLean made his money in India – a low mean, vulgar man – at 2, green bare Shuna, divided from us by very narrow water observed the blocks of micaceous granite and at 2 5/60 gate to Appin – at a little distance farther on, the other entrance gate – goodish white, 3 story house – handsomish grounds – 

At 2 20/60 at the south end of Shuna and at 2 25/60 Trossachy head (north end) of Lismore (Scottish Tourist 381/415 and 275-6/415) and ruin of Stalker castle (381/415) square tower on little low rock just big enough for it and surrounded by the loch, tho’ near shore (must be very shallow water) and near to us – finely situated – loch and its mountains and Lismore and little inlets very fine – at 2 27/60 down on the little white Inn of Portnacroish (F.McColl) with its ferry and village – a few little white blue slated cottages ditto ditto church and manse – look back upon the loch fine – leave it behind and enter Invernahacil glen – rather wooded fertile enough – neat straw thatched cottages and a few scattered neat white houses – at 2 ¾ Aunette Lodge neat little rather gothicized place built about 20 years ago by Campbelle of Lochend who ruined himself and went with his wife and 12 children 4 or 5 years ago to new Holland – the property sold 2 or 3 times – little white church at a little distance from Aunette Lodge and a little farther forward (left) peat moss and peat stacks – 

At 2 50/60, road glen Haeil (hae pronounced) – at 3 turn rather round and come in sight of Loch Creran, and at 3 25/60 alight (to bait – no horse to be had on the other side) at Sheun ferry house D.Calquhoun – nice looking enough little 2 story white house outside – but nobody ever stops here and curious place within – on going upstairs queer poor beds in the 2 goodish front rooms – no furniture – straw on bedstocks in a little dark sort of closet not a chamber pot in the house – everybody obliged to go outside. From 3 ½ to 4 ½ wrote out the above of today – off from Shean ferry house (north) at 4 50/60 – 5 minutes getting all into the boat – over in 26 minutes – rained all the way till just  at the last and we sat under the cart for shelter – landed at 5 21/60  off again in the cart at 5 ½ very poor place on this side the ferry  merely 2 cottages under 1 roof 1 for drams, the both for tea tobacco and  snuff – Loch Curan pretty little loch, finely surrounded by magnificent  groups of mountains towards the head of the lock and Glencoe the look back up the loch towards this way and on [?] right the mountains have seen nothing finer – 

At 5 10/60 lose sight of Loch Creran and see Lock Nell house (General Campbell) and the little loch Nell whence the name of the house and Estate – at 5 55/60 pass the neat entrance lodge – large, good looking house – beautiful place says Miss McLean certainly handsome looking well wooded – the view from the towers (summer house) on the torso of the high wooded ridge jutting out from the house and forming the west side of the little must be very fine – Miss McLean says, it is very fine – began to rain about 6 – at 6 10/60 little picturesque village and fine bold rocks just above us right – at 6 ¼ site of the old Bergonium (left) vide Scottish Tourist page 268 Dunstaffnage castle in view and soon after you the sound of mull and very fine lines of surrounding coast mountains – but alas! it now (6 ¼) rained heavily and without intermission till we alighted for shelter at Connel ferry house at 6 ¾ - luckily not wet beneath our coats and cloaks and sent these to be dried and ordered tea – 

General Campbell maternal uncle to Miss Sarah Riddle – divorced his first wife, widow of Sir George Ramsay, by mutual consent on account of bad temper – he continued to keep away from her for 7 years – she begged him to return – he refused and she divorced him for non adherence to conjugal duties declaring when it was over there was no man she would sooner than Duncan Campbell i.e. her late husband by Lochnell who then married a sister of the present Sire Peter Murray, Ochtertyre, near Crieff – no children by either wife – a 5th cousin must have the estate – the branch gone to the dogs by low marriages  &c – brought up a son and put him in the army – expelled – a great raff – died of drinking – Locknell took his son at 5 year old and brings him up not allowing him to see his mother grandfather still living, or any of his family – 

At 7 ½ had just written the last 25 lines – tea at  7 50/60- off again for Connel ferry (north) at 8 ¾ - 10 minutes in crossing Loch Etive tame in comparison with the magnificent mountain surrounded Loch Creran – seated in our cart again and off from the south side the ferry (merely a cottage for the ferry house) at 9 – soon lose sight of the loch Drearyish up and down hill road have shut out by rock and moor – very fine rocks (right) close to Oban where we alighted at the New Inn, Argyle Arms A. Menzies (pronounced mingis) – several showers this morning from Ballahulish to Shean ferry – heavy rain enough from there and from Loch Null to Connal ferry and rain but not much from Connel to Oban – just upon leaving Shean ferry house heard the rumbling of thunder 

Went to her bed double bedded room at twelve and a half, she was feckless and not quite well, talking quietly for a good while then she not objecting at heart had a kiss better to her than usual good to me – and went to my own bed after washing myself at two

Ballahulish ferry (north) to Shean ferry (north) 16                    

Shean ferry (north) to Connel ferry north)        5

Connel ferry (north) to Oban                            5

(Dairy reference: SH7MLE110036)

[sorcerermusic]

George Oban ‎– Basshoven