06/01/2026
Just mentioned in passing conversation about how Inverness is on the east coast of the country and my kids were absolutely disgusted, claiming it was too far westward to be on the east coast. But it's on the coast and on the east side of the country so if it's not the east coast then what is it, north? Where does the east coast end and north begin? Is it just to do with which direction the town faces out to sea (which my kids seemed to be claiming)? But I'm not having that. By their logic then Margate is on the north coast. 🤯
Who decides these things and what are their criteria? 🤷🏻♂️
Does anyone care? Even here amongst dull people?
And while I'm on it: I've got similar issues with our North Coast 500. Is it so called cos it takes in the north coast along the way? Possibly but how much of it actually is "north coast" and how much is not?
Our local Edinburgh Marathon is mostly the East Lothian marathon, given you are outside Edinburgh for the vast majority of it.
For something to be so specifically named ought it not to be, at the very least, 50% of what it proclaims itself to be???
Having committed all this to paper, metaphorically, I'm aware none of this really matters and I'm beyond caring, personally. The petty, sad little man in me just wants to know I wasn't entirely wrong and, more importantly, that my kids totally were😏.
49 yrs old in a few weeks' time but still playing over 35s football, size 9 shoe with a (misfiring) rocket left foot, banana for scale/pointing to Inverness on the map.