"Orange on the Rocks"
July 12, 2007
It’s very appropriate in the UK to give your house a name. Especially in little villages and hamlets, the address of your house is not (only) the street your house is in but the name of your house.
This is also very true for Skye. So we’ve been thinking for at least a year now about an appropriate name for our house. We’ve had various candidates, most of them Gaelic. Although very appropriate on Skye, the Gaelic language is extremely difficult to pronounce and write. So we decided not to use a Gaelic name.
What then? Well, yesterday I was looking out the kitchen window towards the shores of Loch Duvegan and noticed that rocks along the shore were all completely covered by seaweed. Whether it’s the sun or the time of year, the weed actually looked like it had an orange glow over it.
Well, the rest is obvious. Why not name the house “Orange on the Rocks“. It’s easy to remember and also has a bit of a reference to our Dutch background. The above picture shows the weed, although the actual weed is more orange than the it shows on the picture which appears to be more of a brownish color…
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