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My mother and I always know when the boys" (my father and brother John) have an attack of 'roughstuffitis’ coming on. It begins some time in May with some semi-delirious murmuring of strange names — Cape Wrath, Kinlochmoidart, Stornaway, Stack Polly, Blair Atholl, Kyle of Lochalsh — and if the name "MacBrayne" is mentioned, then we know that the attack is going to be a serious one. Then comes a rash of maps. The living room floor is covered with a carpet of different shades of brown and a few patches of green with some little blue lines running across them