‘Where the Music Meets the Ocean’ that’s the strapline for Tiree Music Festival 2022. Surely there can be no other UK Music Festival so close to the sea. Just across the single track road from the festival site, the family campsite is almost on the shore and in the bay yachts sat anchor. You could […]
Read more "Where The Music Meets The Ocean"The photographs may have a nautical theme but the narrative is much wider. The latter is an explanation of why we have every reason to be grateful. The occasion was a brief visit to the Mainland port of Oban for an appointment at the ‘Lorne and Islands Hospital’. The appointment was on the Friday morning […]
Read more "Every Reason To Be Grateful"Sunday evening brought to a climax a weekend of celebration Throughout the UK many came together to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Here on the Isle of Tiree the weekend began with the lighting of a beacon/bonfire on top of Ben Gott on Thursday and concluded on Sunday with ‘afternoon tea’ in An Talla (the […]
Read more "STEALING THE SHOW"A month has passed since we last reported on our life on Tiree. On that occasion we were travelling south to meet up with our family for a celebration – our Golden wedding – although the actual date was in January. In all we were off island for two whole weeks. However, we have been […]
Read more "A Timely Catch-Up"Winter extended! Today, Tuesday the 1st of March, is the day CalMac chose to announce that they were officially extending Winter for the Isle of Tiree. Tiree is not the only Hebridean island to come under this proclamation, other islands are also suffering from – among other things – the consequences of the failure to […]
Read more "Winter Extended"It’s almost 6:00pm on Thursday the 10th of February as the ‘MV Lord of the Isles arrives’ at Tiree’s Pier. This is the first ferry that has berthed successfully at Tiree since Friday the 4th of February. Under the winter timetable Tiree is not due a ferry on a Friday, but due to the cancellation […]
Read more "RELIEF ARRIVES"The weather has not been the most conducive to venturing further afield on the island thus the lack of recent posts. With a dental appointment on the Mainland we were keeping a close watch on the weather forecast. The appointment was on the Friday so this meant sailing on the Thursday and returning on the […]
Read more "Home To Tiree"On Sunday 19th September at about 18:45 the tug ‘Fortitude’ with the sea going barge ‘Terra Marique’ departed Gott Bay, Isle Tiree, for the port of Ayr on the River Clyde, her mission completed. This was the third and final sailing the tug and barge had made to and from the island. The barge ‘Terra […]
Read more "Mission Complete"On Saturday 16th August 2014 we were just a few days off our first anniversary of moving to the Isle of Tiree. On that particular day at 1.25pm, exactly 70 years after the collision of two Hanley Page Halifax Aircraft from from 518 Squadron RAF, relatives of the crews and their families, representatives from their […]
Read more "Remembered"Tilley – Tiree’s Wind Turbine is tantalising close to turning once again after a year of inactivity. The lack of action was not down to Tiree somehow being becalmed. It was the fact that the turbine required repair and refurbishment. The consequence of the year’s gap has been a loss of income to community projects. […]
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