As the man walked toward a closet, barra looked after him unhappily. |
We made landfall at Barra in September last year, and once the rain stopped and the sky cleared, agreed that the scenery was as beautiful as anything we'd seen on our trip. |
At last, barra turned from the litter of rock about the formless mass on the ground. |
A faint wave of reluctance came to barra, who stared sternly. |
He has twice visited Mecca, has 18 grandsons and is held in great respect by everyone in Barra where he is the main landlord and the honorary muezzin in the mosque. |
And I am just going to tell you a little anecdote, a very brief one, about a woman by the name of Mary-Johnny Kavanagh of Caplin Bay, who worked in the family fishery and regularly carried one end of a barra. |