Remembering Loch Eriboll ...

I told my dad this afternoon that I'd walked The Cleveland Way - 

We got out the Readers Digest Atlas - 

This kindly Atlas had been part of my childhood - 

I'd traced the course of the Nile with my finger - 

I'd murmured under my breath the names of Asian cities - 

Now we turned the pages together to the map of England - 

The names of small towns were printed in italics - 

There I said - there's Helmsley - there's Whitby - there's Scarborough - 

I've been to Scarborough my dad said - 

There's a castle - 

I was a Navy Apprentice - 

We went across the border - up into Scotland - 

Loch Eriboll - I remember Loch Eriboll -

We called it Loch Horrible -

16.15

Tuesday 8 August 2017

Staunton Road

Havant