Hoax distress call about sinking boat

Christmas dinner was interrupted for search and rescue volunteers in the Highlands yesterday after a “hoax” distress call from a sailing boat. Rescue teams in Dornoch and Portmahomack were scrambled at lunchtime after receiving a call which Aberdeen Coastguard last night believed to have been a hoax.

A rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth was called out with the Dornoch rescue boat and Portmahomack Coastguard rescue team at 12.20pm by a man claiming to be on a sinking boat called the Gypsy Rose. The vessel was said to be in trouble one mile north of Tarbat Ness, in the Dornoch Firth, but rescue teams found no trace. Three members of the Dornoch inshore lifeboat team investigated the call but found nothing.

Full story at http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1004238?UserKey=

War in Portmahomack!!

The shooting of a British propaganda film in Portmahomack, Easter Ross, in 1942.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7761279.stm

Happy Christmas!!!

It's Christmas time in Scotland, and my kid said to me.....
Just one question Daddy , before I go to sleep....
How will Santa find me , so I said.. wherever he may roam,
Santa will find you because he's coming home

Santa's A Scotsman
He's Loved Everywhere he goes
He moved from Glasgow to Lapland...following Rudolf's nose

Santa's A Scotsman... Come on make a fuss
Too many pies not enough exercise....of course he's one of us.

He only works one day a year and then he takes a break,
He'll have a nip of whisky and a bit of Christmas cake
He likes a pudding supper and when he arrives tonight
He'll come in through the window 'cos the chimney is too tight.