Countryfile

20Apr09

Just caught a very familiar barn and crofter during a section on Lewis during the Beeb’s Countryfile program!
Callanish, crofting and cutting peats, catch it for the next 4 days via HERE
(click on to 09.25 minutes in)

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Tags: bbc, countrywide, Crofting, tv

Island Blogging

14Dec08

 
I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with the BBC’s Island Blogging website.
It began originally in the Argyll and Clyde islands as a project to promote digital literacy and grew to encompass communities in the Northern and Western Isles. As this digital literacy grew and the blogosphere in general developed, it became very easy to set up [...]

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Tags: bbc, blogging, isle of lewis

Scotland’s History

09Nov08

Am not much for banging the ol’ nationalist drum at all, at all. But there was a rather good bit of BBC TV tonight. Part one was interesting especially regarding the Kingdom of the Gaels.
Part two, the Braveheart episode, probably not so much. Hopefully, light on the Mel Gibsonism.
 
www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/

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Tags: bbc, gaels, History, scotland, tv