The Roamer column was the highlight of a Thursday for many Lochaber readers so he has returned with a look back at the events and people that made it into his columns in the mid 1980s.
Mr MacDonald from Ballachulish on the phone to Mr Cameron in Onich. ‘Did you see that big jet that went over at 11 o’clock?’ Mr Cameron – ‘Aye, I saw it at about a quarter to 12’. Mr MacDonald: ‘Heavens, it took a long time reaching Onich!’
Lots of visitors to Riddochs these days. None more intriguing than Lochaber exile Ian MacGregor, chairman of the National Coal Board, who was shown round last week. Apparently he asked a lot of pertinent questions but wouldn’t answer any which were directed at him. Strange that for a local man who wrote he was ‘born within sight and very definitely within sound of the British Aluminium Works in Kinlochleven’.