Bongo Fury

Great to meet everybody at the weekend, a few sore heads on Sunday I think! Brora and I managed to piece together the sorry tale of ‘The Munkeys’……On Saturday, and giddy from the intoxicating highland air, awe inspiring scenery and perfect weather, Mr & Mrs Munkey purchased two furry trappers hats, a bottle of single malt, logs and a case of Carling. Unfortunately the hats were one size too small…. They would not realise this until the next day! Armed with their bootie they headed back to camp. Logs on the camp fire and hats on the head, they settled down to a quiet evening of intellectual chat with the fellow bongo enthusiasts, unaware of the headache that was to follow…….As any of you whisky drinkers will know, at least one bottle in 100 is lost due to evaporation…. Known as ‘the angels share’…. Unfortunately this would appear to have been the bottle that Mr & Mrs Munkey purchased…. As Mrs Munkey recalls it, ‘it was opened for a wee dram in the afternoon, and when I went into the van to get it in the evening it had all evaporated!’ Unfortunately a similar fate also lay ahead for Mr Munkeys Carling….. it is a well known fact in Glencoe that Red Squirrels drink huge amounts of Carling and then deposit the empty cardboard packing case outside camper vans in the morning!!
The following morning all of the party who had been wearing hats which were too small for them woke up with sore heads……. You know who you are!

Mr & Mrs Munkey next time you visit Glencoe, beware of Red Squirrels and Angels!

Great time everybody, thanks… see you all soon.


'Bongo Etive Mor'


Not sure about the 'Reserved' bit


Bongos Basking in the Sun


Chilly Bongos at Dawn










Dave Aber's Bongo has a quiet puff as he sleeps soundly inside at 25 deg C


The morning after the night before... spot Mr & Mrs Munkey's chairs!!!

Many good points there Dave.





The site should be safe though


They take no prisoners niether . . . .

Great news guys! I found my hat, you know the one that has travelled the world with me. It wasn't a casualty of the weekend, only me. The hangover has last two days now!

great weather guys wish i could have made this one.
that first pic of the island chris is a wow. ,have you had muz lessons

.co.uk wrote:Great news guys! I found my hat, you know the one that has travelled the world with me. It wasn't a casualty of the weekend, only me. The hangover has last two days now!

Would that be the hat that gave you the two day headache Thomas Glad your back 'in the land of the living'

Bongopoet wrote:David and I had a lovely time. Great to meet so many like minded people. As Kevin put it The afternoon spent at the seafood restraunt at the side of the loch was "a %&@*$&^ civilised way to spend an afternoon"

couldn't put it better except to say it was a %&@*$&^ civilised way to spend a weekend.

from the herald scotland newspaper
27 Sep 2010
Winter has come early to the Highlands as areas plummeted to their coldest September temperatures for nearly 30 years last night, with -4.4°C recorded at one weather centre.

it certainly was glen coe scotland seventiesboy

mulshy wrote:

Bongopoet wrote:
it certainly was glen coe scotland seventiesboy

I know, I am just jealous as hell

Love the area, love the pics, love to join you next time

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What no axe's, this is no good to Muz as we all know how he like's to weild his axe

Just as well you never took your axe with you mulshy.

The guy at the campsite informed me that it was to prevent people misusing their axes. It took a minute for me to realise he meant they were chopping down the trees and not each other!

dandemann8 wrote:

What no axe's, this is no good to Muz as we all know how he like's to weild his axe

Indeed, no good for me at all that site....

Looks like a fantastic place, super photos well done guys

The reason why the campsite allow fires is that the smoke keeps the midges away which are very bad in this part of Scotland. Best time to go to Glencoe is the late September to late April period which is out of the midge season, we had a fantastic sunny midge free stay last weekend.

Tony

And if you ever have experienced clouds of midges around you..... you will know why the campsite has signs banning axes, guns, bows and arrows and chainsaws etc. basically you grab anything that comes to hand to chase the blighters away!!!

dunslair wrote: ....Unfortunately a similar fate also lay ahead for Mr Munkeys Carling….. it is a well known fact in Glencoe that Red Squirrels drink huge amounts of Carling and then deposit the empty cardboard packing case outside camper vans in the morning!!

I was always under the impression that it was only grey squirrels that did that.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs