Sandy Campbell grew potatoes on an island in Loch Muick

The Scots Magazine for 1 July 1970 has a snippet about my great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell:

Winter lingers right into early summer in this area between Dee and Spey, and this must have meant a very late sowing. But crops can be grown in unpromising places. 

In Queen Victoria’s day the stalker at Glasallt Shiel, Sandy Campbell, used to grow a crop of potatoes on a little island on Loch Muick. "Weel, ye see, it's the best bit o’ soil roond aboot," was his explanation.

I think I'll take to speaking like that myself.