The Pentland Files: Do you miss me?

Well, it suddenly occurred to me that I've been away from the UK for 16 weeks today. Thats 112 days. It also occurred to me that people might be missing ol' Pentland. Soooo, I have put together a list of "All Things Pentland" for you to enjoy in my absence. Please feel free to leave comments on my new Blog type thingy and I shall be sure to ignore them....

Here is a picture of Joseph Barclay Pentland.

He is famous because he spotted and named a crater on the Moon. Hence we now have the Pentland Crater !

Interesting stuff huh?

More things Pentland are Potatoes.

We have the Pentland Hawk Potatoes

We also have the Pentland Javelin Potatoes

Not too metion the Pentland Dell Potatoes (used by McDonalds and Golden Wonder in the UK)

There are some others from the tatty family, such as the Pentland Squire. Please feel free to send me an image of said potatoes if you should find them!

Maybe, just maybe, they were all grown here on the Pentland Hills just south of Edinburgh?

Or maybe they were imported to the UK on this ship the MV Baron Pentland?

And they came via the Pentland Firth, which is at the very north of Scotland and gives way to the Orkneys.

Maybe we should ask Lord Pentland I or maybe Lord Pentland II?

Failing that, we could ask John Pentland Mahaffy, the famed Irish scholar? After all...Irish = Potato right?

"Enough already! I fed up with potatoes" I hear you scream....."OK" I reply. Let me just show you some other Pentland stuff! Here is the Pentland Spiers Lifeboat

And here is the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse....whaddya know! I'm a beacon to sailors in the dark!

I can also hold masses of people in my auditourium (never heard it called that before!) at the Edinburgh Intl Conference Centre

And when I'm old (er), I will live here 1 Pentland Court in Thurso. Note this pic was taken exactly one month after my Brithday....22nd April in case you forgot.....