I have a spooky but interesting tale ........ We live in an Old Manse and whilst digging out an extremely old compost heap in 2002 (which had old coffee jars and heaven knows what else in it) I came across a part of a headstone (left hand side). Could just make out the name of Duncan, lost at sea 31 March in Iceland. Frightened the life out of me, especially as OH was away at the time. Slept that night with all the lights on!

Then in 2004, digging in another part of the garden I found the right side, which gave me the surname, name of the boat and the year. It was a perfect match. The local history group have done some work on it and the boat did sink, but the gentleman wasn't named as crew - all we can surmise is that he must have turned up.

I don't dig quite as deep as I used to ..... but I have a new patch of garden to dig over soon - might get some chaps in to do it while I'm at work .... think I would prefer to live on an old battle site