Archive for July, 2008
Gone fishin’!
Heading to Lewis tomorrow for two weeks so the blog will be at a standstill. Contemplated updates from my iPhone but think I’ll be switching the bloody thing off for some peace n quiet.
See yeez in two weeks!
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Tags: awol, gone, good to go, holiday, outta here, packed
Woopwoop!
Two months of 60 hour weeks, trouble-shootin’, business re-building, ass-bustin’ work is over!
Two weeks of campin’, fishin’ n hanging out with J begins!
It’s enough to make a man dance to Madonna. Almost…
=D
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Tags: fatigue, holidays, relief, time off, woopwoop
Weather
Berneray sky. Via Scotproof
The weather in Glasgow has been effing lousy again this summer. Serious rain.
So how is it in the Hebrides? My folks seem to have enjoyed a fine May / June but the big question (for me anyway) is whether the Sun will shine on our two week trip next week.
The BBC site [...]
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Tags: holidays, lap of the gods, random, unsettled, weather
Trout Fishing
Norman Macleod was born in the village of Coll and as a teenager moved to Stornoway where he attended The Nicholson Institute. After an apprenticeship served in the famous shipyard of John Brown and war service in the Merchant Navy he returned to his native island where he set up business as a partner in [...]
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Tags: brown trout, Fishing, fly fishing, lochs, uig, worming
RobuCAB
The Gazette reports that Stornoway may be the futuristic home to three ‘robot like’ vehicles travelling at 12km per hour, each carrying up to 10 people to and from the town centre to Lews Castle Grounds.
No drivers? They wouldn’t last five minutes in the Weege. Or I suspect at the hands of the Cearns Young Team.
Robosoft [...]
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Tags: robots, stornoway, Transport
Seachd
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is the first Scottish Gaelic feature film. It is a film from the Scottish Gaelic community starring local Gaelic-speaking actors from the Highlands and Isles and was filmed entirely on the Isle of Skye.
Seachd is not a Hollywood film. The film was shot across just 25 days on a tiny budget, but [...]
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Tags: controversy, DVD, Film, Gaelic, seachd
With Nature And A Camera
One of the first nature and bird photographers were brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton. Their adventures in the Outer Hebrides, and St Kilda were described in probably their finest book, written in 1897, With Nature And A Camera.
Richard started to write articles on nature and soon he wanted to illustrate these articles with his own photos of animals [...]
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Tags: Culture, heritage, History, Nature, Photography, st kilda
Ship AIS
Skandi Commander, Supply Vessel.
Ok, guilty pleasure time.
As part of the global maritime safety system, ships over 300 tons are now required to broadcast their positions using AIS
A ship transmits dynamic information at intervals of between 2 and 12 seconds depending on the vessel’s speed or 3 minutes if at anchor e.g. navigation status, (at anchor [...]
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Tags: AIS, boats, geek, minch, shipping
Sad Day We Left The Croft
Sad Day We Left The Croft is a compilation album of punk bands from island of Lewis, recorded in 1980 and released in 1981. A related 7 inch vinyl single on Adult Entertainments was also released in 1981. The single was played by John Peel on his influential BBC Radio 1 music show shortly after its release. Pressed in limited quantities, both the single and [...]
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Tags: bands, hebrides, Music, punk
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