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Icons: Harris Tweed7 comments

Well Dressed Dad wrote 2 months ago: Harris Tweed cloth must be the most fabled and mythical of cloths in use today. With a history going … more →

Tags: Icons 2, Clothes, Shoes, harris tweed, jackets, Outer Hebrides, scottish borders, Scotland, Industrial Revolution

Interview with Sandra Humphrey, chair of the Uist Disability Access Panel5 comments

lorianapauli wrote 3 months ago: To listen to the interview, click here: Download: 301258_20130201104014.mp3 // Sandra speaks about t … more →

Tags: Outer Hebrides, People of the Uists, Volunteering, Health Care, Disability, easy access, north uist, Interview, Support

Journeys in the Homeland

mistynites wrote 5 months ago: As a child, many of our family holidays were to places within my home country of Scotland. As an adu … more →

Tags: Travel, Travelogue, Scotland, Travel (2), Hike, sunburn, Holiday, wildlife, Sunshine

Gordon Wells, his Shakuhachi flute and language 5 comments

lorianapauli wrote 7 months ago: This interview  with Gordon Wells, the Project Officer of Island Voices, is given in two parts. I. I … more →

Tags: Outer Hebrides, Personal, People of the Uists, Island Voices - Guthan nan Eilean, Gaelic, language, Music, traditional music, Community

St. Kilda - Britain's Remotest And Loneliest Islands

Come Step Back In Time wrote 11 months ago: Inside of a typical 19th century croft blackhouse in the Highlands of Scotland which would have been … more →

Tags: museum, History, film, rural heritage, History of St. Kilda, 19th Century Croft Blackhouse, Mullach Sgar, The Vikings and St. Kilda, St. Kilda Field Mouse

Air Sgàth an Traoin

Gordon Wells wrote 11 months ago: “For the Corncrake’s Sake” – an addition to my (very) occasional series on t … more →

Tags: Gaelic, Hebrides

Music of the Muezzin

Gordon Wells wrote 1 year ago: I’m just back from a short visit to Istanbul. With over 15 million people and over 3,000 mosques the … more →

Tags: Gaelic, cultural diversity, music and language, istanbul

Remembering Uisgebhagh

lorianapauli wrote 1 year ago: I have moved recently to Berneray, after having lived two years (June 2009 – August 2011) in U … more →

Tags: Fauna, Nature, Birds

April Lambs

Gordon Wells wrote 1 year ago: Gambolling lambs are a feature of this time of year. Free entertainment tearing back and forth past … more →

Tags: Uist

Sports Investments UK Today's Results

sports investments wrote 1 year ago: Sports Investments UK  Horse Racing Newbury 1.30, Jackies Solitaire. Place Only. BACK. Result 5th. L … more →

Tags: Results, betting, horses, Sports, Racing, Recreation and Sports, Gambling, place market, horse racing

Sports Investments UK Today's Picks 10:30

sports investments wrote 1 year ago: Sports Investments UK  Horse Racing Newbury 1.30, Jackies Solitaire. Place Only. BACK. Lingfield Par … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, betting, horses, Sports, Racing, Recreation and Sports, Gambling, place market, Winners Market

And the winner is....2 comments

naturebites wrote 1 year ago: Well, we’re finally here. This is when I announce the results of the first naturebites birdrace! Bef … more →

Tags: bird race, red-necked grebe, East Yorkshire, Shropshire, Anglesey, West Midlands, Hampshire, leicestershire and rutland, lesser spotted woodpecker

Double Ring

bruebirder wrote 1 year ago: Two Ring billed Gulls seem to have taken up residence on the islands. More typical of a North Americ … more →

Tags: Uist, Stornoway, Ring-billed Gull, balivanich

Mann Judd Gordon - Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

ukaccountants wrote 1 year ago: Mann Judd Gordon Ltd is a firm of accountants based in Stornoway on The Isle of Lewis that provides … more →

Tags: Accountants, Accountants in Scotland, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Uist, eriskay

Do towns have their own brand?

Neil @ The Data Works wrote 1 year ago: I have travelled quite a bit in the UK recently, with business taking me to some unlikely locations … more →

Tags: Interesting Data, Warrington, Towns, British, bath, Chester, proud towns, Isle of Rum, Coniston

Otter chase

bruebirder wrote 1 year ago: Driving back north through Benbecula the car in front did a very dodgy swerve and kept going. Nothin … more →

Tags: otter, Uist

Benbecula and then home8 comments

christinelaennec wrote 1 year ago: map of the Western Isles from the Lewis Pipe Band website (http://www.lewispipeband.co.uk/) Before c … more →

Tags: Scotland, Travel, summer, Gaelic, Friendship, Family, Ferries, Outer Hebrides, north uist

#179 Two Years Apart...

Douglas wrote 1 year ago: Quite a lot usually happens in 2 years. Luckily for me, this didn’t. Going back to the same pl … more →

Tags: Personal Musings, Car, Personal, camera, Sony, A200, DSLR, photograph, Photography

Hebrides Trip: Day Eight - Thursday 16th June 2011: photos

linda769 wrote 1 year ago: Out and about around Grimsay and Benbecula. … more →

Tags: Outer Hebrides, Scotland, grimsay, Seaside, Holidays, Travel


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