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West Highland Yachting Week takes the water to the whisky (Tobermory)
63 years old this year, Argyll’s West Highland Yachting Week (WHYW) is raising a glass Continue reading
Bandwidths on BT upgrades to rural Argyll broadband services
What you see (elsewhere) is not what you get (in Argyll and from BT). Continue reading
BT persuaded to squeeze out a bit more bandwidth for some Argyll exchanges
The Scottish Government is paying BT to upgrade Continue reading
Three Friends – art exhibition at the Gallery on the Isle of Gigha
Gigha’s Gallery is hosting an exhibition – Three Friends – open daily until until the 7th May. It features the paintins of three local artists, Diana Olof, Alan Mills and Dianne Fairweather.
Weaving weekend with Louise Oppenheimer on Gigha
Louise Oppenheimer is leading a tapestry weaving weekend on Gigha at the end of March – on the 21st and 22nd. The quickest of glances at her own website shows just how inspriational her work is.
The cost of the weekend course is £60, whcih includes tuition and materials. The Gigha Hotel (Phone 01583 505 254) is offering a special discount of £50 for dinner, bed and breakfast – and the inevitable Gigha ceilidh on the Sunday night. Continue reading
Gigha’s weekend Gaelic class was gle mhath
Henri Macaulay is delighted with the response to the monthly weekend Gaelic classes he’s running on the Isle of Gigha. The second one finsihed last weekend, with the same successful tutor as the first one – Ciomhin Rodgers – and with another great ceilidh at the end.
Henri’s emails are so tantalisingly scattered with Gaeic phrases that his pupil list may be expanded sometime soon.
The classes are for beginners and better and they’re open to anyone. The ferry from Tayinloan at the north end of the Kintyre leninsula to Ardminish on Gigha takes about 20 minutes or less and the weekend sessions are becoming something of a legend.
Get to Gigha this weekend and get into Gaelic with Henri Macauley
This weekend – February 28th and March 1st – is the second of Henri Macauley’s Gaelic language sessions held on Gigha. Following the success of the last series, Henri is taking another sequence of Gaelic classes for beginners and improvers.
The classes run over four weekends – each the last in the month – starting at the end of January and running through February, March and April.
The classes are famously fun and conversational – and since you’re on Gigha and it’s the weekend, prepare to enjoy the ceilidh on Sunday nights.
You don’t have to live on Gigha to come there and start on the language of Earra Gaidheal. The Gigha Hotel is offering a special deal for the weekends of the Gaelic courses. Get information on the Gigha website or phone: 01583 505 101 for more details.
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Simon McComb photography for Gigha’s 2009 Calendar
The internationally acclaimed reportage photographer Simon McComb spent a week on Gigha taking shots for the 2009 Gigha Calendar – preview here. This is described as ‘a quirky, fun, somewhat off the wall view of the island and islanders’. Simon McComb’s connections also helped to get the Calendar a feature article in The Herald newspaper, distributed across Scotland.
The calendar is available from the Gigha Trust office on the island and can be ordered by phone from 01583505390 or by email to admin@gigha.org.uk
Lighthouse Caledonia shares suspended until further notice
Lighthouse Caledonia – the fish farming company, an important Argyll employer, has just made a statement (6th February) on its situation in response to a request from Oslo Bors that it should do so. Oslo Bors was founded in 1819 and offers the only regulated markets for securities trading in Norway today.
As For Argyll reported at the time, a stock exchange notice on 16th December stated that the company had suspended all payments and was engaged in efforts to secure refinancing and restructuring.
There is as yet no further information on these negotiations. Lighthouse Caledonia says that it will provide information on any developments when and if they arise. In any event, the company will issue a further statement on Monday 16th February.
The company has now taken the step of requesting that its shares are suspended from listing on Oslo Bors until further notice.
The company has a processing plant at Cairndow, a freshwater site between Loch Fyne and Loch Awe and a significant number of salmon farms in Loch Fyne, the Cowal peninsula, the Isle of Gigha and the Isle of Mull. It’s fate will have implications for the local economy in Argyll.