NO! Not Hetland.

Herself got an urge to go "up over" to a garden centre. "Hetland" was mentioned.
For a Change I knew/remembered which one was Hetland, still needed FREDFRED to get us there easily. (Other double-barrelled satnavs are available)

As we drove in one of us said "This isn't the one I meant."
T'other one said "It's the one you named Pet Al, anyway it's dinner-time (Lunch to you posh/Southern lot) we may as well stop."

After a mediocre bite to eat we sauntered on to the one she really meant, and spotted this bloke on the way in. Had to look him up, I hadn't even realised he was Scottish. NO, not Peter Pan silly bugger, J.M.Barrie.
1st para result - "ANGUS, that's WAY north of Dumfries".
Later I read that (My stressing)
" At 14, he left home for Dumfries Academy, again under the watch of Alexander and Mary Ann. He became a voracious reader, and was fond of penny dreadfuls, and the works of Robert Michael Ballantyne and James Fenimore Cooper. At Dumfries he and his friends spent time in the garden of Moat Brae house, playing pirates "in a sort of Odyssey that was long afterwards to become the play of Peter Pan". "

Comical aside:- I always reckon "Dumfries" is the plural of "Dumfry" and when we're out of earshot pronounce it as if it was.

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