The little rock that refused to jump out of the way...
The Fluff's been itching to show me around her pine martin study-site in the Black Isle. So, last Thursday, we booked ourselves into a little B&B in Dornoch and set out for Morangie Forest.
The site itself is a good 60 square kilometers big and it's absolutely stunning. It's got the feel of a typical North American pine forest and smells like one of those "christmasspray"-cans Fi's dad bestows on us each year. Very surreal to find this in Scotland. Although I suppose it's all to do with plate tectonics and how the little bittie called Scotland ended up moving astray from its American side. I believe "wanderlust" is the right term ;-)
Anyway...
That Friday afternoon, Fi decided to drive her lil Fiat Punto around the forest in the hunt for some dense forest canopy, thereby endowing it with 4x4 allures it doesn't have. A good 20 minutes into the drive it came head to head with a rock which, quite astonishingly, refused to jump out of the way. (The nerve! ;-))
Result... The fiat's engine fell out. Literally.
The good news is that this all happened on the Friday evening before the bankholiday weekend, so garages were just DYING to come help us out *painful grin*. And thank god Dornoch is just THAT cosmopolitan a village to hold a regular direct trainservice straight down to Stirling *sobs in despair*.
Our luck turned, however, when Raymond the forest ranger lend us a hand to shift the Fiat off the road and to safety. It seems like fate that about a hundred yards from the car, a harvester had broken down and was in the process of being repaired by... a lovely bloke from Carlisle! *ka-ching* We got ourselves a lift down to Stirling in a greasy white van! But not before we got to see the newly repaired harvester in action. Now these things are amazing... the mechanical arm grabs a tree, chainsaws it down, pulls it horizontal, strips it of its branches and hacks it in three smaller bits. And all this in under 30seconds!!!
Anyway... the normal workweek resumes on Tuesday, and we'll find out then if the car is at all salvagable. In the meantime, it's back to the 4x4 bike ;-)
posted by Dr.Pew @ 7:24 pm
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