If

Them. If it be true that an entire legion can be lost on such inhospitable and wet frontiers, and if it be true that a legion of 7,000 regulars and two cohorts of 3,000 vexillations of auxiliaries each a piece too could be lost even from history; then my fellow soldiers, what hope is there for us too, we happy few, we band of brethren, we legionaries of the last christian empire, stuck here in the snowy drifts of Kintyre?

Yes

Yes up here with the Sarmatian knights on Hadrian's Wall it is mighty breezy and we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time looking out for little blue guys that are supposed to be caledonian scots or picts or something, when these ones we see behave more like huron indians. Odd.

Oh

Yes, here we are, on the warm but rain soaked shores of the celtic islands as Dio Cassius used to call these places - hundreds of islands and no sign of a sauna or a hypocaust anywhere !! Such is the life of the Ninth!!

Rose bay willow

Rosie wherefore art thou - on these forbidding snowy shores !! Eheu we might say as in days of yore !!