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.
West Ardnamurchan Community Council
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Please note that the next meeting of West Ardnamurchan Community Council will take place on Monday 18th January, rather than Monday 11th January as originally intended. The meeting will be held online via MS Teams and will start at 19:00hrs (7:00pm). If you would like to attend, please e-mail...
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The AGM and next business meeting of West Ardnamurchan Community Council will be held on Monday 7th December at 19:00hrs via MS Teams. The AGM will begin at 19:00hrs and will be followed by the December business meeting. If you would like to attend, please e-mail westardcc@yahoo.com by Thursday...
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1. Welcome and apologies Present: Chair - Rosie Curtis (RC); Vice Chair - Jessie Colquhoun (JC) Secretary - Jim Frame (JF); Treasurer - Mairi Hunter (MH) Gill Calver (GC); Sarah Houston (SH); Davie Ferguson (DF) Attending: Cllr Ian Ramon, Cllr Andrew Baxter and 4 members of the public...
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Item 3 - Secretary’s Report List of correspondence received since last meeting (March 2020). Note, this does not include consideration of HC weekly Development ePlanning lists (all of which were noted), internal comms between WACC members, or comms between WACC and WACDC. 3.1 Correspondence (all...
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Following a long absence, the next meeting of West Ardnamurchan Community Council will be held on Monday 2nd November 2020 at 19:00hrs, by MS Teams. If you would like to attend, please email westardcc@yahoo.com NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT ON THURSDAY 29TH OCTOBER and I will send you a link to join...
Craigard Croft
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Red deer stagJust before the first Covid19 lockdown in March last year I posted a blog about Scotland having too many deer after a doubling of our deer population in the last 60 years Too many deer.... too few trees . Since then before our latest lockdown I've been deer stalking (...
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This post is a letter to my cousin Ian in California (and my American friends ), we contact each other about once a month on family and other matters. It's to assure him that Americans aren't alone ,we have a parallel obsessive, incompetent and corrupt government that has allowed Covid19 to get out...
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If like me you feel you are getting too old and slow for "Munro bagging", the obsessive pursuit of walking all of Scotland's 282 mountains over 914.4m (3,000 ft) there is an attractive alternative. You can visit and walk in the remnants of the ancient pinewoods of Scotland.These remnants were...
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Lynx kittenFifty years ago on a hot, still, blackfly and mosquito infested afternoon in northern Quebec I came across two lynx kittens sleeping in the sun on a big flat rock beside the Tonnancourt river. They were about two metres away. I watched them briefly and moved on, not wanting to...
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Last week the "Daily Mail" broke the story that our Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfefell Johnson was hiding from the chaos his lack of competent governance has created in a cottage by the sea on the Applecross Peninsula. I may be wrong but it looks like the former Scottish...
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One of the unexpected side effects of Covid19 lockdown here on the peninsula is that many of us have learned to use video conferencing. So, next week we have a ZOOM meeting with Kate Forbes our local MSP and Scottish Minister for finance."Scottish farming will be in dire straits if we...
Sunart Community Company
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Online Grand Christmas Silent Auction Ends Midnight Dec 12th – LOTS worth over £2,000 Please click here to read more about this years silent auction. Oakwood Tourism & Crafts – December Opening Hours Fridays 12 to 3 pmSaturdays 12 to 3 pmSundays 12 to 2 pm For the last-minute...
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The Sunart Community Benefit Fund Panel distribute profits donated from the Sunart Community Hydro scheme. Due to the pandemic the panel delayed their Spring meeting until after the summer and then met using Zoom video conferencing this Autumn. Awards A number of applications for events had...
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Strontian Outdoor Christmas Fair & Lights Switch On – 28th November. With all the constraints of Covid19 and the threat of lockdowns we thought we would try and organise at least one community event before Christmas – a socially distanced outdoor Christmas Fair! Oakwood Tourism & Crafts...
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Oakwood Despite the constraints that Covid is imposing on us, we are managing to keep the shop open from 12 ’til 3 everyday. It is being well used by visitors, and we are always delighted to welcome local residents as well. We are regularly getting new items in the range, so it is a great...
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Oakwood is open We are delighted that Oakwood has been able to re-open. As before it is full of locally made craft items ranging from cards and framed watercolour paintings, to children’s toys and items made from uniquely printed fabric and Harris tweed. There is handmade jewellery and...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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Ardnamurchan Estate
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it is with heavy hearts we say good-bye to Jane Muirhead. Jane has left to join Alvie Estate further north from us. Closer to online shopping deliveries, take away deliveries and roads that are a lot wider and straighter than our B8007. We wish you the very best in all your endeavours Jane....
The Sunart Diaries
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Scotland has a well-documented series of core paths that are designed to give the public reasonable access to the ‘area’ . These are maintained – sometimes in the very loosest possible sense of the word – and are the responsibility of the local councils. Many of these core...
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Ben Laga is a rocky peak on the northern shore of Loch Sunart in Ardnamurchan. At 512 metres it’s the second highest top (after Ben Hiant, 528 m) on Ardnamurchan proper . As such, it gets far fewer visitors than Ben Hiant, a fact reflected in the absence of erosion on the paths to the [...
