Home School On The Croft
December 27, 2010 § 16 Comments
I always bemoan the dearth of good Lewis blogs. It’s surely the perfect place to write about and let city fowk like myself live vicariously through.
But there’s not a lot, and even less by locals.
Maybe recording weekly trips to the Co-op, drinks in The Lewis and fights in the Cearns don’t make for riveting writing or reading.
Fair enough.
So it’s nice to find an overlooked blog to trawl through especially one that records the minutae of island life in a disarmingly open and honest manner. Even better when you throw in the hot-topics of Ness, home-schooling and Christianity.
Should be interesting…
www.homeschoolonthecroft.blogspot.com/
‘find’…or have brought to your attention?
I found it was brought to my attention!
I’m not great at updating and I’m in Brighton for a few months but, if you’re interested it’s vaugly based on Island life.
errr oops:
http://mslazybones.blogspot.com/
*Maybe recording weekly trips to the Co-op, drinks in The Lewis and fights in the Cearns don’t make for riveting writing or reading.* Are you sure it shouldn’t be * Weekly trips to The Lewis, drinks in The Cearns, & fights in The Co-op?
Maybe it’s just me though?
Your version would be more interesting for sure TWS.
Cheers Sophers!
Honestly???? I’ve read three of her ramblings, and they make my life look interesting, which is no mean feat.
i’ll keep with it, cos God loves a trier, (so she tells me, )but if something slightly noteworthy hasn’y happened in a month I’m giving up. Tws’s stuff is a million times funnier, better, and more entertaining. Is EVERYTHING that comes out of Lewis brilliant by default, in your book?
No not everything. TWS’s blog for instance, You couldn’t pay me to read it let alone force a laugh. No offence, different strokes and all that. And sometimes the best blogs are, on the surface, the most banal, the minutiae of life. Admittedly the blog in question might not be everyone’s cupán tae but I saw a bit of lamb butchery, the Ness 10K run and a bunch of other NW Lewis photos that let me live a little vicariously. Like your own blog, this sort of thing is just a way to record the day to day for those who might be interested.
S’about time you started that HRT btw, your comments are getting grumpier by the month
tell me about it, I just told the woman on the phone from Great Universal to stick her platinum rewards up her arse.
well like I say, I’ll give the blog a month because you are occasionally right about the odd thing,but the sycophantic comments are making me gag a little…
Thank you. I find the day to day blogs of island life interesting. The IB has turned into a big yawn these days! I used to follow Hill Cottage, Isle of Eigg blog and it just fell on the map. Would you happen to know what happen there? Happy New Year!
IB just ground to a halt when people started to feel that the validity and authenticity of their blogs was called into question. Out of all the goodness knows how many blogs, only a handful of people blog, even intermittently, and the comments have also shrunk to almost nothing..By the very nature of things, blogs tend to be about what the blogger finds interesting and worthy of comment, and if there’s a feeling that this is being challenged, as it very publicly was on IB, I suspect it discourages people from contributing.
IB ground to a halt because its most prolific blogger was a camp Englishman blogging about teacosies and wee dogs and his life in SW England-shire! When the English guy who spent time and effort creating the IB community asserted his right to insist Island Bloggers should be bloggers living and blogging from a Scottish island aforementioned camp English blogger spat the dummy and flounced off with a tirade of abuse and many of his fellow countrymen followed suit. Ah, good times. And they say the Scots are always fighting among themselves
Mine is kind of about island life…! Not very cheery mind you! I only have one cheery story and its about my Grandad bumping into a guy called Don Don who had cross eyes in the Club. Don Don said, “Why don’t you look where you’re going?” and my Grandad replied, “Why don’t you go where you’re looking…” hahah
More blogging from you in 2011 please Y!
Nah, it took a lot more than somebody flouncing off to kill off IB, and I have to agree with Gale that it’s barely ticking along. If it wasn’t for Arnish Lighthouse(may his light never go out!) it would have tumbleweed blowing across it. There are plenty of bloggers on it.. just none of them blother to blog…