Bolting for Home
Dear reader — I’ve been marooned by the Beast from the East! I’m just home off the ferry tonight, after one big misadventure on the mainland. I was meant to be away until this coming Tuesday but I made the […]
A final plea for money for Stornoway Primary
A final attempt is to be made tomorrow (Wednesday) for Stornoway Primary to be allocated money for improvements in this term of the council — a story that I have written about for the Gazette this week. The full newspaper […]
Anyone got £71million to lend the Comhairle…?
I went to a play on Friday night. It was about Hebridean women. In particular, those women — our great-grandmothers and grandmothers, mainly — who were out there in the world, making an impact and fighting for women to have […]
The years are short
It’s a long weekend here. How’s everybody bearing up? If you’re working parents, like us, then school holidays — while lovely — can pose quite a challenge. They may even involve some kind of shift pattern, with multiple parents and […]
EDF up the ante with a new wind farm base in Stornoway
Looks like the French multinational with grand designs on the crofting ground of Lewis is strengthening its grasp on the Hebrides. Lewis Wind Power (the disingenuously titled partnership of EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler) is setting up a new base in […]
‘An Lanntair must not be a beacon for the Secular Society’
Oh, An Lanntair. What have you done? By now, most of you lovely readers of this blog will be aware that the Lanntair is going to be holding a Sunday opening trial between now and March, beginning with a screening […]
Coming out of the half-light into a new year of blogging
We are more than halfway through January! I can’t believe it. Where has the time gone? The month is fairly blasting past. So, before another single day goes by, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New […]
A problem at Stornoway Primary alright (but it’s not the prayers)
My father used the phrase “vague news” today when he really meant “fake news” — but it really got me thinking and, actually, vague news is something we’re getting a lot of in Lewis just now. People were getting their […]
The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Facebook is awash with brambles just now. Brambles in tubs, brambles being picked from the bushes in the Castle Grounds by children with pink-tinged fingertips and equally rosy cheeks. Brambles in pies, brambles in jam jars, brambles bubbling in pots […]
Scottish Crofting Federation boosts community windfarm hopes
It’s been nearly a month since the deadline for objections to the Scottish Land Court over the plans by Lewis Wind Power — AKA multinationals EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler, in partnership with landowners Stornoway Trust — to develop a 36-turbine […]