ODDS & ENDS



This pub sign is in Scotland near Pitlochry at the Athol Arms Hotel
Picture by Okkie

Those of us who graduated from Red Hill will appreciate the following entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, supplied by Robert Flack #1876:

bothy /"bQTi/ (also bothie)· n. (pl. bothies) (in Scotland) a small hut or cottage for farm labourers or as a mountain refuge.– ORIGIN C18: obscurely rel. to Ir. and Sc. Gaelic both, bothan, and perh. to booth.

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