Súil Eile translated
FROM time to time in the cities, the authorities offer an amnesty for dangerous knives.
Gangs of youths fill the bins with their blades but, I guess, keep the best ones for themselves.
In the Western Isles what they are missing is an amnesty for old cars.
A community on the west side of Lewis has been collecting rusty wrecks throughout the area.
Between two or three villages, they have collected 55 useless cars.
That figure is a surprise in itself but according to reports, there are more wrecked cars than that left in the district.
It is expensive to get rid of wrecks and they have always been useful as hen houses or a way of deterring incomers from moving into an area … or so the sketch show goes.
The Lewis car wrecks are so famous that the writer Jonathan Meades made a film about them – Isle of Rust – one of the most honest and funny reflections on the islands.
I recommend it, these old Marinas are still useful.