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Summer On The Isles - 13th July 2010

Posted by John McKenna on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, In : Crofting 

 

Today marks the beginning of the annual HebCelt festival, so the town is full of visitors. Well, not really, but there is a bit of buzz (mostly among the local dudes who hang out An Lanntair). 

 

Meanwhile crofting activities wait for no event. So more eggs arrived today for hatching and I spoke to a man about installing an electric fence. On Thursday we are to collect two pigs from the isle of Skye. Produce at the Bernera polytunnels is coming along nicely, apart from the infestation of...


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Midlife crisis? (part ii) - 3rd March 2010

Posted by John McKenna on Sunday, March 7, 2010, In : Crofting 
My first (yes, first) car . . .


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Just Ducky - 2nd Nov 2009

Posted by John McKenna on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, In : Crofting 

Last night was our first carnivorous meal featuring croft livestock. The Indian Runners are not ideal for the table, but seeing as how we need to cull a couple of drakes, we might as well not let them go to waste. I followed the basic outlines of a Jamie Oliver recipe.


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Roughly chopped veg (onions, carrots, celery, garlic) go in the bottom of the pan. Fresh sage leaves are mashed with salt using mortar and pestal, and then rubbed all over the bird. Citrus (lemon or orange, halved) gets ...

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 Colin Macleod - Local Lad + Landscapes:

Again in the music-videologue-of-Lewis-vein: this one features the rather frightfully handsome lad, Colin Macleod. Pal of Dotjr, apparently. New CD (on Geffen) due out soon.

 

 

About Me


Barry Shelby Barry Shelby, American-gone-native-Scotsperson, Journalist , Photographer, Author and....Crofter located now at Earshader on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Barry, based for years in Glasgow, is now with his wife Elizabeth on the Islands off the North-West Coast of Scotland.

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Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas,  also Isle of Lewis) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides (an archipelago) of Scotland. The total area of Lewis is 683 square miles (1,770 km2).

Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Beyond human habitation, the island's diverse habitats are home to an assortment of flora and fauna, such as the golden eagle, red deer and seals and are recognised in a number of conservation areas.

Lewis is of Presbyterian tradition with a rich history, having once been part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different to elsewhere in Scotland with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.

 

(source Wikipedia)

So where is Earshader?

 

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