the A9 has a new tackle shop.

[Midgie Hater]

A traveler as opposed to a loony?   :lol:

:lol: well, I didn't like to say but...

On that basis then even loonies in lay-bys (hmmm, think I just came up with an esoteric new band name there...) are deemed more desirable than members of the Travelling community! Or perhaps less undesirable depending on one's point-of-view.

[Midgie Hater]

Alan, next time please try to find a bigger photograph  :roll:

Didn't realise his motor was dead now too.  Yes, he's either hardy, has no feeling in his extremities or, as Fred says, bonkers!

But I have to say the story is a sad one. Of course, we don't know all that's behind the printed word in the Courier. That said. I've looked for pieces from elsewhere in a bid to fill in the blanks about why he was run out of town in the first place beyond his own personal account (old habits die hard). Usually local media who know their job (and, more especially, suffer from a lack of meaty news to fill column-inches) would leap on that straight away, smelling intrigue and scandal behind the predicament, or would follow up comments from members of his former community in order to widen the angle. Nothing's emerged so far which makes me think said community members don't want to get involved  for fear of being seen either as cruel b'stards for putting him in this situation or fear of some sort of reprisal.The Beeb did a bit on him a while back too. Presumably, given the dearth of detail in their "report", it was simply filched from the Courier piece. Not that we journalists ever pinch, paraphrase and summarise stories from other sources of course  :whistling

[Highlander]

Looks like the House Of Bruar has supplied him with a jaiket.

Tight Lines

[Wildfisher]

Does the naked rambler visit him from time to time?

[bibio1]

 I saw it by the roadside. I have got to say though it's tragic a grown man in this age is reduced to living beside the A9. He needs help.

[Highlander]

Indepedence or not,  An A9 lay bye would not be my first choice of somewhere to live. Nutter he may well be but he is not stupid. I am sure he knows that

(a) people will talk about him (we are doing so now)
&
(b) people will stop to talk & indeed help with provisions/money

To my mind where he is is totally unsuitable & could in time possibly cause an accident. He should be asked to move to a more suitable location. I am surprized that has not already been done. He does not seem to do too bad. Looking at the posted picture he appears better dressed than me.  :roll:
Tight Lines

[Noddy]

Alan I think you right that the guy is not stupid.  He is actually parked on the grass, I would assume that he has done that as he could be moved on from the layby.  The layby will be considered as part of the highway and under council control/byelaws.

Jim

[Wildfisher]

I am surprized that has not already been done.

It's the Merc, it brings a touch of class and an air of prosperity to the lay by. Had he been in a Ford he'd have been moved on months ago for lowering the tone of the place. 

[Midgie Hater]

I reckon he could get the price of a camper van for that merc :

A good thought! Perhaps, since we've taken a concern to his welfare we should, as a community, attempt to source one for him, or to find someone wanting to offload a camper for said Merc. Failing that perhaps forum members can do him the odd food parcel drop to break the monotony of trout Or even better set up a fund to provide him with a chemical toilet and weekly emptying service. Bags I don't volunteer to be on the rota   :crap  Ok then, maybe dig him a latrine.

Hmm, just thinking aloud here: what, I wonder, is the concentration of faecal matter doing to the water quality of the Garry? (and perhaps to the size of the trout?)  :shock:

[east wind]

what, I wonder, is the concentration of faecal matter doing to the water quality of the Garry? (and perhaps to the size of the trout?)  :shock:

I've heard there are some really big browns in the Garry around that stretch