Lord Dunderheid

Moving north from Gigha, the next inhabited, inshore island is The Isle of Danna, or simply Danna (and not Dana as I think I misspelled it in my post on Gigha). Danna is located on the east side of the Tayvallich peninsula. To get to it you have to get on to the road between Lochgilphead and Crinan and then take the B8025 to Tayvallich - which you drive right through. This road leads down to Keills - but a short distance from Keills you take a left turn along an unclassified road which takes you through New Ulva and onto Danna. Note that I have read a couple of articles on the Internet which seem to suggest that New Ulva is also an island but this, as far as I could tell, is not the case as I crossed no bridges or causeways to get to it. This road stops being properly surfaced as soon as it crosses the causeway on to Danna. From there to it’s end it is a hard packed dirt track wide enough to take vehicles with ease. The surface was also pretty good with, from memory, no serious pothole...

 After over twenty opinion polls in a row, support for independence would seemed to have fallen substantially. Indeed, two recent polls have now indicated a majority, although a small one, for staying in the UK (with one in between these two still showing a slight lead for independence). It also has to be admitted that polls towards the end of 2020 and the start of 2021, while still showing a majority for YES, had indicated that support for independence had fallen from a high point of about 58% to about only 53%. Why should this have happened? I suspect that one reason, the earlier one, was due to some people reconsidering independence, and rejoining the EU, due to the COVID vaccine situation. About the only thing the UK government has got right in the battle against COVID was getting early vaccine supplies ordered - while the EU made a total mess of obtaining vaccines and getting them distributed. This might have left some ‘soft’ independence supporters thinking that independence,...