Isles of Scilly

I read somewhere many years ago that Scilly Islanders prefer “the Isles of Scilly” to the Scilly Islands. It’s interesting how a pointless, possibly untrue fact can shape your imagination of a place. When I’ve thought about Scilly Islanders at all, I’ve thought of them as thin-skinned, Tory-voting, Robinson’s-jam-guzzling curtain twitchers: disgusted of Atlantic archipelago.… Read more