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.
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Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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A delicious side dish for any meal. Ingredients 500g Ardtornish Kitchen Garden kale 40g butter 1 Ardtornish Kitchen Garden garlic clove, sliced MethodTrim and discard the tough stalks from the kale and roughly chop the leaves. Rinse well, then shake dry. Melt the butter in a frying pan and gently...
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Formal gardens Grass cutting is now well underway and some of the larger lower lawns are being converted to native wildflower meadows where appropriate. This will increase biodiversity of the gardens encouraging wildlife and increasing pollinators which are sadly in decline. Paths, edges and picnic...
Simon Willis
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Think of it as a mid-life crisis motorbike, but without the motor. Actually, don't. I've already had several of them and I'm probably past mid-life now. Just think of it as a treat to myself. My excellent road bike is showing its age. My gravel bike is great, but a...
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In June/July 2021 Hannah and Frodo completed the whole trail in under two weeks. They have some great advice for doing the shuttle at the end of the trip, and some warnings for anyone thinking portages around tricky bits might be easy - they're not. Hannah has kindly...
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How big is kayak fishing in the UK? More to the point - how big will it become? Because in the US it is big.Pesda Press (who also publish my book) clearly think there is potential to grow. Hence this new publication in their Practical Manual series. It's the first on the subject this side of the...
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The Caledonia Way is a somewhat unusual long distance cycling route. While it's mostly on minor roads, you can't ride the whole thing on a road bike. There are at least three sections where it heads into distinctly off-road territory. Not full mountain bike...
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The Kintyre Way was ahead of its time. Established in 2006, it's a good 100 mile walking route, usually split over seven days. However, since its inception a new breed of outdoor transport has appeared, the gravel bike. It's a hybrid of road and mountain bikes,...
Craigard Croft
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It's the open season for hunting Roe bucks , it starts on April Fools day and ends on 31st October Halloween. So tomorrow morning out in the woods along the loch there'll be a stalker hoping to shoot one, perhaps for a trophy head, to top up the freezer or to keep the deer population under...
Sunart Community Company
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Oakwood now has it’s own website, with a selection of items from the shop that can be posted to you or you can buy online and pick up in the shop. You can also buy gift cards or make a donation to the community fund. Visit www.oakwoodtourismandcrafts.co.uk to view it.
The Adventures of Algy
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Algy had seen little of the landscape in the vicinity of the stream, beside which he had spent the night, as it had been almost dark by the time he had chosen a suitable spot for repose, and although the moonlight had been bright, it had only provided a strangely unreal view of his environment.So...
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The constant, biting wind chilled Algy to such an extent that he could not stop shivering, and he realised that he must look for a more sheltered spot without further delay. As the country was entirely new to him, Algy had no idea what he might find by setting off in any particular direction, but...
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With his energy fully restored by the consumption of a substantial helping of sunflower seeds, Algy began to take an interest in his surroundings, despite the continuing aches and pains which were the inevitable consequence of his crash landing.He seemed to be in an extensive landscape of dry,...
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As Algy slowly recovered consciousness he sensed that he was lying face down on some very hard and scratchy kind of ground, and wondered in a dazed sort of way how he could have got there.Slowly it came back to him: the long, long flight over the ocean, the increasingly wild electric storm, the...
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Algy flew up, up into the bright blue sky, and away across a vast expanse of ocean. At first the position of the sun suggested that he was heading south-east, but after a while he completely lost his sense of direction, for the sun had been engulfed by a rapidly enlarging mass of menacing clouds....
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So Algy quickly picked up his spray of magical cherry blossom, holding it carefully in his beak but making sure that it did not sit under his tongue, and jumped up into the air before the island faded away entirely.And then he flew up, up, up and away, high into the blue, without the slightest idea...
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When Algy awoke the next morning he had the most vivid memory of his fabulous ride on the miniature Ferris wheel, but he was unable to decide whether it had simply been a dream, a figment of his imagination, or whether he had really shrunk to a tiny size and ridden round and round on the magical...
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Algy slept happily beneath the sheltering cherry trees, and dreamed a most marvellous dream…He dreamed that he was talking to the Easter bunny, beside the magical ferris wheel, which for the moment had stopped turning and had an empty seat at the bottom, just ready and waiting for a wee fluffy bird...
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When Algy woke up on Easter Saturday he found that the strange island - which had seemed almost deserted the day before, except for a small brown bird in the bushes - was suddenly bustling with all kinds of activity. Flowers had sprung up overnight, birds had built nests, chicks had already...
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Algy was beginning to think that there was something a wee bit strange about this new island he had reached… It really wasn’t quite like anywhere he had been before…He was resting quietly on the grass after his experience with the vanishing statue, when suddenly some cherry trees grew up at an...
