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More Roamerisms from the early 1990s
■ The phone we use in the offce – solely to make outgoing calls – rang stridently and annoyingly one morning last week. It does that very occasionally – and invariably it’s a wrong number from people expecting to speak to West Highland Oil, or with the caller asking ‘Is that Lords and Ladies’?– ‘Can you do me in 10 minutes?’ So you can imagine my surprise when I picked up the phone, and the voice of Alistair Morar (MacLeod) boomed out. ‘Is that Munro the Butchers’? Says I: ‘Hang on, Alistair, and I’ll get you the numbers of Annie in Corpach or Norrie in Toronto.’ (They’re two former stalwarts of Munro the Butchers of decades ago before the High Street shop closed.) Alistair, it transpired, had the right number – but the wrong code – for Munro the Butchers. In Dingwall.