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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Coronavirus It is impossible to look at any aspect of our lives at the moment without reference to the Coronavirus. Many of us are having to self isolate to try to minimise the risks of contracting it. We are very fortunate to be living in a small village, with plenty of wide open spaces. We are...
The Adventures of Algy
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Things were getting more and more challenging in all kinds of ways for a very large number of humans, and in the most remote corner of the wild west Highlands of Scotland it was becoming increasingly difficult to obtain a good supply of fresh food. Algy decided that this was no time for a fluffy...
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Algy decided to explore a wee bit further, to see what other flowers he might find, and in a dark, dank, shaded corner he discovered a treasure. As he rested on the ground beside the plant the bitter north wind blasted his hair into his eyes, and he could barely manage to prevent himself being...
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Algy perched on a rock, very close to his home, and watched the rising tide. It was a dim, dreich day, and although the wind was light, the waves swept in against the rocks with considerable force, battering everything they touched and sucking the sand and seaweed back under the foam, while the...
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On St. Patrick’s Day Algy always observes the wearing of the green… in his hair ☘️ ☘️☘️ because the west coast of Scotland is only a short fluffy flight away from the Emerald Isle, and the indigenous language, culture and music of Algy’s adopted home have a very great deal in common with those of...
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Yesterday, on the occasion of his 8th birthday, Algy returned to tumblr very suddenly after a long absence. He returned at a time when large numbers of his human friends all around the world were facing an unprecedented wave of worry and fear, not to mention extreme inconvenience and serious...
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When darkness fell, Algy joined his friends indoors for a very special birthday tea featuring homemade gooseberry ice cream. There were eight genuine candles on top (some are hiding behind the others!), but he was surprised to find that the ice cream didn’t melt, although he took the precaution of...
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After a seemingly endless winter of perpetual sleet, hail and snow, not to mention constant storms and permanently grey skies, Algy woke on his 8th birthday to find that it was a beautiful sunny day. The crocuses were happily opening their faces to greet the sunshine, and - as they could depend...
Simon Willis
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While we can't get out on adventures of our own, I thought I'd bring some to you in a new Podcast.Great adventurers share their great adventures in Always Another Adventure.Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional extra podcasts for good measure. You can listen on the website's web player,...
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Many swimming pools are closed, or people don't want to go there, during the COVID19 outbreak.Might I encourage you into what we call 'The Big Pool' instead? Here are seven tips to get you started, safely. Please add your own ideas in the comments, there are plenty more I could have...
The Sunart Diaries
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In the future I hope we’ll look back on the Covid-19 pandemic as the threat to global health and economics that could have been much worse. Now, just over a week into a lockdown, we’re still several weeks away from the peak of infections in the UK and it’s beginning to feel like a...
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In the future I hope we’ll look back on the Covid-19 pandemic as the threat to global health and economics that could have been much worse. Now, just over a week into a lockdown, we’re still several weeks away from the peak of infections in the UK and it’s beginning to feel like a...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
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Wordless Wednesday posts are images from Ardnamurchan and the surrounding regions – Sunart, Morvern, Ardgour, Moidart and the Rough Bounds. No description is necessary but further details may be provided with the linked full-size image. I will try and ensure they were photographed in the same month...
Craigard Croft
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Wild goats where they should be... not in townIt's quiet out there with very few people about and wild animals are moving into urban spaces.Today's "Guardian" newspaper has a photo of a gang of marauding goats taking over Llandudno in N.Wales.......wild goats in town.I have just had a text from my...
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For one passengerWe've been doing self-isolation in the UK for a week now, it's felt like a string of Church of Scotland Sundays.The village shop / post office is doing a sterling job supplying the basics but I had to go to Tobermory yesterday for fresh fruit and veg. On a normal Saturday morning...
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No trees too many Red deer If I look down from my bedroom window in the small hours of a moonlit winter's night there are large grey shapes mooching around in the field that runs down to the sea.During most of the year these red deer are cautious and keep away but tonight they are hungry,...
West Ardnamurchan Community Council
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Dear all,The monthly meetings of West Ardnamurchan Community Council are now cancelled for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, WACC members will remain in contact with each other by e-mail or telephone and will endeavour to continue with community business as far as...
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This resilience plan has been drawn up collectively by WACC, the West Ardnamurchan Community Development Company and members of our local community. Please note that the plan is neither exhaustive nor exclusive, and is not set in stone. It is intended as a ‘living’ document and...
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WEST ARDNAMURCHAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (WACC)DRAFT MINUTE OF THE MEETING HELD AT KILCHOAN COMMUNITY CENTREON MONDAY 09 MARCH 2020 AT 7PM 1. Welcome and apologies Present: ...
