Day 3:14th July 2006

By twisting road to Oban filming Fergus’s journey to Connell.

Oban is larger than remembered, with a modern ferry terminal and overlooked by McCaig’s round folly. Unfortunately the glassworks closed three year’s before-and was clearly the model for the Gallanach glassworks. As to crematoria -the nearest is near Glasgow-so the first scene of the book seems unreconstructable.

We Split at Oban-one group to film the airport other the Shore Street Church, scene of Kenneth’s bizarre end . We also think we found the “ world mound” of ballast on a forgotten part of the front next to a crane and rotting jetty as described by Banks in front of Gallanach.

On the way back ilmed boat on Kames Bay, rocking as described in the scene where Kenneth and Mary are making Prentice in its scuppers.

Then on to record Scot at his home while part of the group went to Slockavullin and the hill at Bac Chrom to film the view-they ended actually filming Aucha Chrom and realizing that Bank’s once again had taken a scalpel to the scenery.