We thought someone was taking the mickey big-time when we were told recently of something called a 'Bonnet Laird Walk' organised by Carloway Estate Trust that had occurred as long ago as last August. We just could not get our head around it at all. However, on checking, we find that such an event was, indeed, organised by Carloway Estate Trust, involving a walk over moorland from Callanish to Old Carloway School.
It must be us - and our sadly-lacking education - but we had never before heard of either a 'Bonnet Laird' or a 'Bonnet Laird Walk'. We admit that we had to look up 'Bonnet Laird' in the modern, online dictionary.
A 'Bonnet Laird' is, apparently, 'a petty Scottish landowner wearing a bonnet like the humbler folk' but we simply cannot comprehend at all what a 'Bonnet Laird Walk' is supposed either to be or to represent so that, yet again, we are left astonished by the activities of the Trust.
Can anyone enlighten us - or are the more appropriate questions (a) where the hell do they get these people from (b) is this a proper way of spending public money and (c) are we, the public, the 'humbler folk' of description?
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