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Homecoming
We've been away for a very pleasant long weekend in Inverness where we were particularly impressed with the food in the two restaurants we patronised, but it was good to be welcomed as we returned...
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Moving On
Our house is sold and we expect to be moving on at the end of the month.After 21 years in Kilchoan, and now downsizing to a small flat, we have a huge amount to get rid of. Some we're selling - prices...
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A Celebration
I bought a digital camera in July 2006. For a long time pictures steadily accumulated in the photo library until there were getting on for 8,000, a number which I tried not to exceed, without success....
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Snow
It doesn't snow here much but, on the rare occasions on which we have enough for the snow to lie........the landscape is transformed.My impression is that it has snowed much less in recent winters. In...
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Seabirds
Watching the gannets sweep over the Sound of Mull and then suddenly tip their wings and plunge into the sea will be one of the memories of summer. At times we have seen as many as twenty manoeuvring in...
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Thank You!
Thank you for all the very generous comments and good wishes which have appeared on recent posts. I wish I had time to respond individually but our days are filled with the wearying task of packing up...
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Dark Skies
Ardnamurchan's small and scattered population has meant that there are relatively few artificial lights at night. This gives it a night sky, when it's clear and the moon is new, which is genuinely...
View ArticleWest Ardnamurchan Community Action Plan Report
From Dale Meegan:The West Ardnamurchan Community Development Company and Community Council have received the final report following the Lottery funded community consultation which was held earlier this...
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Mingary Castle Restoration
Mingary Castle had been abandoned for over 150 years when, in 2013, the Mingary Castle Preservation & Restoration Trust was set up to save the castle from imminent collapse and give it a modern...
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Panoramas
The summits of most of Western Ardnamurchan's hills offer magnificent panoramas, not least because the place is a peninsula so there are always combinations of land, sea and sky. This view is from the...
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Ships in the Sound
There's almost always a ship or a boat out in the Sound at any time of day or night, and we have spent hours over the years watching them from our house. The Lord of the Glens, a small cruise ship...
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Sunrise
For the past twelve years we have lived in a house which faces southeast and which has a view which extends some twenty miles down the Sound of Mull. One of the joys of this view is that we have seen...
View ArticleMore for Sale....
The following items are available, prices negotiable:Dehumidifier, hardly used - £30Office Chair, good quality, swivel - £25B&W Laser Printer - £5Magimix Food Processor - £10Silver & Bone Fish...
View ArticleDrone Video of Plocaig, Bourblaige & Camas nan Geall
Plocaig, Bourblaige & Camas Nan Geall, Ardnamurchan from FourK Media on Vimeo.Many thanks indeed to Ross Gilfillan for another super video.
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Insects
We have been on very intimate terms with some of the local insects. Having always assumed that ticks are only carried by animals such as deer and sheep, we discovered that birds must also carry them,...
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Small Bird News
This post isn't 'news' at all but a small 'thank you' to the small birds who have been our constant companions through the years we've lived on Ardnamurchan. They're not much different from small birds...
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A Community Event - Ardnamurchan Style
Thank you, thank you so very, very much, to everyone for yesterday afternoon's party in the Community Centre which gave us an opportunity to say our goodbyes. Particular thanks to those who organised...
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Extreme Weather
The Raptor's superb picture graphically describes the winds that batter Ardnamurchan Point and scour the peninsula. One day, during a particularly vicious storm, we stood outside our house at the Ferry...
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Comar's 'Face' tour is at Kilchoan Community Centre on Saturday 16th September - more details here.We're still trying to clear our house. The following are available, prices negotiable:Apple iMac,...
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Bourblaige
Sunrise, just before half past six this morning, promised well for the day so we set off for a walk early........noting, as we passed along the edge of Kilchoan Bay, that some of the Kilchoan sheep had...
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Raptors
The buzzard may be the most common of the local raptors but it doesn't make this bird any less impressive. It's only when one sees one up close - usually perched on a post and approached in a car -...
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Something Special
One of the things I have learnt in the last few years is that photographs often don't come out the way one expects them to. With such limited knowledge of digital photography, I simply point the...
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Community
We came to West Ardnamurchan in 1996 to run the shop. We didn't know much about retailing, and keeping the shelves well-stocked was always a challenge, but the support from the community as a whole,...
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A Wealth of Wildlife
There was a time when rabbits were much more common here. When we first had the Ferry Stores we used to watch them in the evenings playing on the grass by Shore Cottage but I understand that, years...
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Thank You!
It seems appropriate to start the last post of the Kilchoan Diary with the picture that appeared on the very first post, on 15th October 2009. It showed the Loch Linnhe approaching Mingary Pier at ten...
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