| Notes |
| 1 |
Annie, dressed in a pale blue skyrunner suit with check sleeves
and trim and an ‘A’ on her hip, complains of feeling cold on the foggy, windy
hilltop. |
| 2 |
At 228 feet in diameter, Lady Isabella, near Laxey, is the
world’s largest water wheel. “Can you reach the wheel?” says an impatient John
H as Annie is about to land. “Not quite yet, John,” she says with a grin, stretching
out her arm in the direction of the still distant wheel. On landing, she climbs
the stairs to the platform halfway up (visit Lady Isabella’s gallery), above
the three-legged Manx coat of arms on the wall (triadic support). The clue is
attached to the rotating wheel and – to her surprise – Annie successfully grabs
it as it comes round. |
| 3 |
Kenneth and the two Johns send Annie to Douglas (find a fir
tree: Douglas fir). Keith lands on the beach and Annie spots a horse-drawn ‘toast-rack’
tram. She boards, rides along the seafront and sees a group of children riding
donkeys on the sand. A girl has the clue. |
| 4 |
John and John send Annie to Spanish Head (according to legend,
a galleon from the Spanish Armada is wrecked close by). She lands, but one of
the Johns realises that she should be heading for the nearby Cregneish Open
Air Museum (kerroo = farmstead; haggard = trained hawk) so she immediately takes
off again. “No, we haven’t landed,” she fibs. At the museum she meets two men
thatching a cottage (suggane = straw rope used to secure thatch) but eventually
finds the clue under the eaves of the cottage opposite. |
| 5 |
Where the A36 (see red: A-roads are coloured red on Ordnance
Survey maps) joins the A27 (36 divided by 27) is a viewpoint (sea view). North-west
of this, on the A27, is a point 225 metres above sea level (lowdown on 225)
where Annie spots a flock of sheep from the air (gimmer = ewe lamb; wether =
castrated male sheep). The clue is on the collar of Misty the sheep dog. |
| 6 |
The helicopter lands in the grounds of Peel Castle, which
was built by King Magnus of Norway (where Magnus Barefoot made a pile), and
which contains several ruined buildings. After looking in St Patrick’s church,
Annie finds the treasure below the east window of St German’s Cathedral (an
east German view). |
