Ardnamurchan Area Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Sunart Community Company
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As the year draws to a close, we would like to thank all of our volunteers for their support this year, and to thank our community and local businesses for their generous donations in 2022, to help fund our community projects. Here is a brief update of our news and upcoming events. Sunart Community...
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Oakwood Centre Strontian: 2022 – the year to October Oakwood reopened in April with a new Coordinator, Karyn Simpkinson, to begin a very busy year. With the lifting of CV19 restrictions, we opened at the beginning of the season and welcomed locals, visitors and many, many ‘Lochs...
Simon Willis
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We like to think we're safe in wild places. Mostly we are, but every now and again someone has an unpleasant experience like the one alongside, shared on our Torino Nice Rally WhatsApp group. This reportedly happened in the town of Tende.I experienced nothing approaching this, but...
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I cycled the Torino Nice Rally in September 2022. I took ten days to complete my ride, which was deliberately slow, as no one ever returned from such an amazing adventure saying "I wish I'd gone faster", it was always the reverse.You can see the Short videos I shot and edited during the ride...
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Organisers of cycling events, an environmentally aware bunch, increasingly insist their competitors reach the start without using aircraft. The Torino Nice Rally might go this way, although the organiser James Olsen tells me he wants to keep it rideable in 5-days (just!) so people can...
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At home in Scotland, I found it hard to get my head around the nature of the Torino Nice Rally. Now I think of it as four, high-level Italian military gravel roads (Strada Assietta, Strada Cannoni, Altiplano della Gardetta and Via del Sale) linked together by a series of road cols, most...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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~200ha of mixed native woodlands have been planted in Phases 1 (2018) and 2 (2021). These projects focused on planting sites that were treeless but had good potential for woodland. Phase 3, as drafted (see maps below), sets out to enhance the condition of existing mature woodland. Adjacent to...
Craigard Croft
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After doing 500+ blog posts by last December I ran out of steam or maybe it was, " blogger's block" but now things have moved on. Bojo the Clown our incompetent, lying, indolent Prime Minister has been sacked leaving the UK with a zombie government while a new PM is chosen. It looks as if our next...
The Adventures of Algy
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It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that... (Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 16:53)It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that inevitable “HOW long did you say it was till spring?” October Tuesday feeling… When he could see the sky at all it was a uniform pale grey from edge to edge, but that was only when it was not obscured by a thick blanket of fine Scotch...
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Sunday morning started out to be cool and damp, and became a great deal cooler and damper when the wild west wind swept mist and rain in from the mighty Atlantic ocean, which was only a bird’s hop away…But Algy was not daunted. The one thing he had particularly missed during his adventures in the...
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The weather was in a highly erratic mood, swinging rapidly between glorious autumn sunshine which revealed a sky of a most unusual colour for the wild west coast of the Scottish Highlands, and huge sulky grey clouds which drained all the colour out of the landscape and brought yet more rain to the...
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Monday morning was one of sudden changes in the weather, when drenching showers rushed across the sky chased by dazzling autumn sunshine, which lasted only a few minutes before it, too, fled away to the east, pursued by huge black clouds lit up from time to time by a beautiful rainbow.Algy hopped...
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The following day was somewhat calmer but continued persistently wet, although the rain was evidently getting fed up with falling the entire time, as it only dribbled aimlessly, on and off, in a decidedly half-hearted and desultory sort of way, no doubt having exhausted itself in the torrential...
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Algy thoroughly enjoyed his wind-driven ride in the old downy birch tree, but after a while he began to feel hungry again, for he had only managed to eat a few rowan berries before the wind had defeated him.Fortunately there was a handsome cotoneaster growing close to the birch, and it was...
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It was not long before Algy tired of trying to catch falling... (Monday, September 27, 2021 - 18:01)It was not long before Algy tired of trying to catch falling rowan berries while balanced on his back in the blasting wind, and when he had eaten a few he began to think that perhaps it was time to play a different game…As some of Algy’s more longstanding friends may remember, there is a certain...
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When he had slowly gathered his wits about him, Algy turned around and noticed that in his absence his assistants had installed a smart new deer fence, no doubt in an effort to keep the iconic and “Romantic” Highland cows and red deer - which the tourists so much loved to photograph - from...
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Algy had spent an exceptionally long, cold and sleepless night... (Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 13:30)Algy had spent an exceptionally long, cold and sleepless night before the dawning of the day of the solstice in the faraway land of Patadragonia, but he quickly forgot his weariness, and the anxieties which had troubled his mind during the hours of darkness, when the dawn finally broke over...
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staff:tumblr tuesday: the adventures of algyHello! Happy solstice. What’s this, you ask? Well,...
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It had been an exceptionally long night in the remote land of Patadragonia, as it lay in the deep, deep south of the world and its shortest day was rapidly approaching… And Algy had spent many long, wakeful hours watching the full moon cross the sky and sink down again behind the mountains, while...
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adventuresofalgy:Algy and his little green dragon friend were feeling the debilitating effects of their long and arduous flight across the plains of Patadragonia, and they agreed that they could travel no further that night. So once the excitement of the magical shooting star had passed, they...
