WHERE ARE YOU, THE POST CODE IS NOT RECOGNISED?
ARGYLL VILLAGE LIFE: 1 Do you have this problem? You have a post code awarded to your dwelling by a beneficent Post Office, but you live rurally — in my case, Argyll, the land of the Gael, in an especially beautiful corner of Scotland. I live in a wonderful small village in a glen renowned as not only astonishingly and scenically exceptional, but also of great historic importance as a centre for west coast peoples for thousands of years. Our unique village does not have street names, only areas. We live at number 7. There are three number 7’s in our village, which confuses many (but not our local postpersons!), and it is important to make clear in which part of the village one’s number lies. Further fun has been added by American giant Google (or Alphabet, to give it its proper name), for the lane in which we live has no name — other than the local one of ‘Pauper’s Row’, as we live in what was considered ‘the poor end of the village’. The more recent twentieth century extension of the ...
