The day job took me to St Kilda last week – ho hum. These islands famously defy adequate verbal description, so I won’t even try. Some pictures instead:

Cleits like these in the foreground adorn the island in their hundreds

Cleit close-up

Monumental sea stacks round Boreray
The islands were evacuated last century. Lucky me to get there last week!

GW - not exactly parliamentary material