About
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Born in Stornoway in 1975, my family still living and working on the Island of Lewis, after a decade of Glasgow city life I’m making plans to return home.
Looking at crofting, the people, the land and the culture of the island in the 21st century this weblog gathers together many of the things that connect with me in relation to this aim.
In addition I aim to gather together many of the cultural and historical pieces that make up the rich soul of the northern part of the Outer Hebrides and hopefully while educating myself on these matters, be able to show others that there is more to this part of the world than sheep and playing at The Good Life.
(And probably some other rubbish too…)
You can contact me via the_croft@yahoo.co.uk
Est. 22.01.07
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Alright Mike? Nice site, can’t believe your going to swap the bright lights of Glasgow for the twinkling stars of the Scottish Islands, history definitely beckons! Good luck! AL
Hi Al =)
Yeah, I’ve had fifteen years of the bright lights and not seeing twinkling stars, that’s enough for me!
Still got a couple of years to go here and a recession to ride out unfortunately but one day I’ll get back home…
Hope all the Leggs are good and we get to see you soon.
Mx
Proud to have been an official for the BNP.
You lot are just a load of drunken Island imbreeds that no nothing about crofting other than how to get your grants!
As for a bigot take a good hard look at yourself you narrow minded idiot!
I will Paul, thanks for the advice.
Why did you move up here anyway? Were you expecting the last bastion of pure-blooded Celt-dom or something?
Nae luck cove!
We islanders are the bastard sons and daughters of every seafaring nation to ever land on these shore in the last few thousand years. And we’ve been sailing the seven seas sowing our wild oats for centuries just for good measure.
You want to talk about patriotism? Go and read my Remembrance Sunday post and try and try and justify throwing these sad little insults at the people of this island. Not a family here has not shed blood for our so-called Queen and country.
Now toodle off back to Blighty and leave us to our whisky and grant fiddling
(BTW is yer egg n chook business VAT registered at all, at all?)
Sorry your having a bad day, re your rant on the19th hope tomorrow is better. Just remember that it could be a lot worse as you are healthy and good looking (well that just goes without saying) i hear it runs in the family. Hold in there, tomorow is another day. Hope you and J have a great Christmas and a Happy and healthy New Year.
ps love your blog hope you get your icelandic sweater from santa if i could knit i would knit one for you but alas i got the looks and not the gift of knitting.
Aye, Twitter caught me on a bad day. Tis the season for the masses to get drunk and demanding though and some of us are charged with providing the booze and entertainment. The evening of the day after the day after (tonight!) is better though!
Looking forward to Christmas, we have some good food in and a couple of days peace to enjoy. And hopefully Santa will bring that jumper too
Will drop you and yours a line by email soon, take care n much love…
The Good Lookin’ Crofter
Hi
found you on Twitter browsing glasgow folks and clicked through to your site.
looks good! will check back more
cho’
Luke
Great reply crofter to That insulting BNP nazi P johnston
Not worth the hassle guys like that
Yes I can see him on his off time Marching around in his hitler outfit
moustache an all. Morons like him use the internet to express how they feel
hideing behind the screen
Sorry dude you should have being born in the forties Hitlers Germany
But if you had!!! some russian would have beaten the crap out of you
So i have said my peace P johnstone
So i raise my whiskey glass from one crofter to another
Exiled Siarach
Entertaining Mr Johnson?
I see Mr Johnson has reared his obnoxious head again. He’s gotten banned by several forums – Point Online, NEEPS, Stornoway Chat – you name it, for being a troll. He’s left the island thank goodness and is now probably stirring up trouble in the Borders.
To be fair I did start on him first by blogging his name and address when the member’s list came to light
You sure he’s left the island? I thought he’d moved to Pairc
Croft..it will be interesting reading your Blog. As a former Hotelier and now Resident on Lewis (nearly whole year now…) I am sure we can swap opinions/thoughts , even perhaps politely.
Les….only nice people live in Pairc
regards
RJG……aka
http://gravirlife.wordpress.com/
Och, you can be as impolite as you like around here RJG. It’s like the Cearns of the interweb.
Hi. Just stumbled upon your blog and thought your post on CalMac’s Sabbath sailing was brilliant – level-headed, revealing (to a non-islander) and a pleasure to read. My sis lives in Stornoway so I was kind-of interested to find out a bit more about the place and, in particular, the Sabbath thing. Just wanted to offer some small words of encouragement.
I love the bnp they are as funny as angus og, they want britain for the brits then when it comes to ireland they backtrack and want ireland for the brits as well so they dont upset the unionists, when i first heard the saying alternative comedians i thought they were talking about the bnp.
hi, great blog. I found it after googling ‘Brian Haggas’ (I was looking for an email address so I could send him a few ‘carefully’ chosen words!) . Consider yourself bookmarked!
Tioraidh,
Toby
Hi
Just found your excellent blog via a google alert for harris tweed – we’ve just recently put the above website together. These sure are difficult and challenging times for the Harris Tweed Industry.
John Maclean
Congratulations John, website looks good, I’ll do a wee blog about it shortly.
Good luck and all the best for the future!
Hi Toby. The blogs here can be a little irregular but there’s plenty of older posts to trawl through while the newer ones come about! Feel free to comment as input from the outside world is always good.
All the best.