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“Get out of your own way” — as someone who’s come up with Plans B, C and even D just in case Plan A didn’t work out, this has to be one of my favourite motivational quotes. And this New […]
Let ‘TED’ be your inspiration for 2017
If you’ve made New Year’s Resolutions this year, I bet most of them boil down to being a better version of yourself. Mine certainly do. Lose a few pounds, be more patient with the kids, that kind of thing. I […]
Christmas done and dusted. Next it’s Bliadhna Mhath Ur!
Everybody still standing, now we’re on the other side of Christmas and storms Barbara and Conor? Personally, I like Boxing Day. The madness of Christmas is behind you and everybody can chill out, enjoying a proper public holiday without the […]
Why I chose Gaelic Medium Education for my children
I wrote a testimonial a few days ago for gaelicmediumeducation.com, the website which tells people all about the benefits of Gaelic immersive education and gives information on schools offering it in the islands. It came about because I have a work […]
Why I couldn’t bring myself to talk on telly about Trump
It’s been three weeks. I am finally able to speak about it. The fact that Donald Trump — whom we can supposedly claim as one of our own since his mother came from Lewis — won the US Election made me […]
Magic and surreal.. how Sharmanka brought a loom back to life
“Mammy! Mammy! Look! A lion!” “Mammy! Mammy! Look! A kangaroo!”… so it went when I took the kids to see the Sharmanka exhibition in An Lanntair. I knew they would love it. How could they not? It’s art in motion, […]
Trump ‘unfit to be President’ – our view from the homeland
America is about to enter the final week of campaigning in its Presidential Election, with Donald Trump, a man we should supposedly feel some connection to as his mother came from Lewis, very much in the race. Amazingly, despite all […]
Faclan proves Golden Age of Scots island literature is now
We’re heading into the Celtic festival of Samhain, the beginning of the ‘darker half’ of the year, and in Lewis that means it’s time for Faclan, The Hebridean Book Festival. Taking place in Stornoway every year around the time the […]
‘No preference’ say National Grid on size of interconnector projects
National Grid have dismissed claims by Lewis Wind Power and Stornoway Trust that only big renewables projects such as theirs will drive the case for the interconnector linking the mainland to the Hebrides, saying they have “no preference on […]
Stornoway Trust and LWP react to crofters’ own wind farm plans
After blogging about the crofters taking on the multinationals over the development rights to wind turbines on Lewis last week, I was invited to a meeting by Lewis Wind Power (EDF and AMEC) in the Stornoway Trust offices to hear […]