Western Isles Monopoly..your chance to contribute..
Posted: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
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Calumannabel's Pie in Skye Hospitality Suite: 10 Iraqi dinars?
mjc from NM,USA
Community Chest ' Called in to see Uncle Angus and Auntie Chrissie. Grace lasted 10 minutes missed business opportunity in Stornoway . Lose 拢50.'
Donald from Waddington House Galson
'Falarope hits windscreen of tractor - lose one go'
Hamish Oddy from Fantail Cottage Fivepenny
'Church Street blocked by Stornoway Communions - wait a turn'
Hamish Elder from Communion Cottage Cross
You are relocated to work for the Western Isles Health Board. Collect 拢13k. Throw a six and collect 拢150k to open a Band B.
Hamish Holby from The Best Bed and Breakfast in Back
Your taxi driver is improperly dresses - lose a turn while he goes home to change.
Hamish Rank from Hackney House Habost
'Visit Tarbert but place shut. Lose three goes.' Is this the sort of 'Chance' card you are looking for?
hector john macdonald from Little Hearachs Playgroup Kyles Scalpay
How about replacing the mortgage with building a windfarm on your street, which leaves you with no rent at all.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
'Thick fog for three days = go to jail' traffic warden's off sick = free parking (does Western Isles have one?) You have won a raffle prize! A weekend in Skye! collect 拢10 commiseration from each player. for the four stations - one can be NorthLink, one can be CalMac (does cal mac have a posh capital letter in the middle like NorthLink does?) what will the others be?
scallowawife from shetland
'you spend 2 hours reading blogs instead of working on computer. miss 2 goes.' 'you get waylaid by horny Viking at local Up-Helly-Aa. miss 3 goes.' utilities - Doctor 拢1000 Dentist 拢3000 Hospital Specialist appointment 拢5000 you get phone call from abroad. you think your mother who is in the Left Bank, Paris has had an accident. later on you realise its a call centre , from India , about your ROYAL BANK account. lie down for an hour - miss a go.
I ought to be working from scottish island
Quick Calum - Get 'Island Games' copyrighted. I've had to hide this from CM. You know what she's like for board games. She gets so over-excited when it comes to buying the black houses and bochans. How about: "Go to the Western Isles Hospital. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 拢200 unless you're a senior NHS executive in which case you can have 拢175,000 for your husband to build a B&B"? Suggested playing pieces - wee tweed cap, plastic marag, sheep's head, Rayburn stove, gannet (of course) and a peat (traditional cut)
Annie B from the usual
I insist you have Skippinish Lighthouse, even if they are a bit noisy.
Foxy from The Back
Chance Card :You have won a suit from JD's Catalogue Collect 拢75 over 38 weeks.
anna wellstood from balathrushal
Cromwell Street, Bayhead and Church Street are on the yellow cards. You build up to four houses on each for which you can charge 拢1000 for anyone landing on it or the piece de resistance for 拢150K you put a B and B on the site and charge 拢13k to anyone who lands on it.
calumannabel from Rules Cottage Raasay
You have to get to the mainland quickly. You take the Muirneag. Miss three days play.
calumadmiral from Rockall and Mallin Solicitors
Bus driver stops to feed his sheep, miss a go; ferry 60 miles off course, miss 2 goes; visited by church elders as forgot to bring in washing on Saturday night, miss 3 goes....
BoB from Lewis
oh dear - I sense trouble - what is a traditional cut peat - we in Shetland wid assume you wid use a tushkar. and what's a marag? fishing and the sea ought to be represented - a yoal, a piltick, or a creel. a scaddimans head. A Shetland rose? (you find it in ditches) or a Shetland kale stalk. A trow and a fiddle. no vikings.
scallowawife from shetland
I get this, I get this. Pieces can be a sheep, a cow, a peat iron, whisky bottle, wind turbine...
Wee Blone from From The Hills
It's no trouble scallowawife. Traditional peats are slab shaped and cut in the old-fashioned way by tools like the tushkar. For the last few years some folks with new-fangled ideas have started to cut the peats into wee log shapes with machines. They're quicker to cut but they don't burn or stack as well. Marag - a subject close to my heart -is 'marag dubh' - black pudding. This is a Lewis speciality. Charlie Barley's Stornoway Black Pudding is a gourmet favourite. (His proper name is Charles MacLeod). W.J. Macdonald on Francis Street in Stornoway and the Cross Stores on the Cross Skigersta Road in Ness both do good ones as well. Off to get the frying pan on the Rayburn now....
Annie B from the usual
You win BoB's 'Spot the Genuine Godwin Letter' competition. Collect 拢50.
Lurker from Lewis
There will be a little silver Godwin figurine available as one of the playing pieces. The winner will be the one with the most 5 Star B and B's but he has to mass 拢4.5m to wrest ownership of the board from the wicked Lombard Oppenheim Borghese.
Research and Development Dept from Calumco International
Black puddings and haggises from Charlie Barley's are actually mailed all over the world. There wasn't a haggis left in the place on January 25th.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
Arran is obviously the Purple ones as we've got the looniest house prices. Instead of Park Lane & Mayfair it would be South End & North End where you can build a holiday house and charge 拢5000 a week rent. One of the Chance cards could be, "You have bribed the planning department, go straight to Kilmory and build five 4 bedroom Luxury holiday homes on a tiny field in the middle of the village every single resident has objected too killing protected trees, ruining the villge and lining your pockets!"
Sunny from The purple bits
Land on Drover's Lane. Forced to read Mighty Godwin's lifelong contributions to Shetland Times, Orcadian, Stornoway Gazette, Arran Banner et al, thereby missing so many turns everyone else has gone to bed and the amber nectar is finished.
Flying Cat from Bored Games
Your house has been rebanded for council tax, Pay 拢3000 for the hovel do not pass go do not collect a rebate. You have run out of heating oil pay 拢500 to BP and set up a direct debit. You need building work finished. Get in the car, drive round the island till you find your builder then drag him back to finish the job, miss three turns.
Sunny from Isle of Arm & A Leg
Looking for more info on Charlie Barley - he features in a song by Wallie Whitan (spelling?) which goes along the lines... Charlie Barley had a duck, kept it in a ten ton truck, Charlie Barley went to town, the duck got out and walked around Charlie Barley had a dog, lost it in the winter fog, when the springtime came around, Charley's dog came back again etc etc. Is this the sort of dodgy country & western trivia you are looking for?
Col from Galley
Carson nach eil barrachd daoine a bruidhinn gaidhlig oir 'se canan Alba a tha ann.
Carlabhagh from Carlabhagh, Eilean Leodhas
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