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Loch Striven, Maersk and the media

This is something of a wake-up call. Continue reading
Two for 14th February 2010

This comes courtesy of a postman (Jimmy from Inveraray) whose turning manoeuvres Continue reading
Mary’s Meals appeal for Haiti’s worst slum whom no one helps: Cite Soleil

Today’s Independent newspaper carries a focus on the people and the conditions in the notorious slums Continue reading
Women, high explosives and car makeovers – on BBC Alba
A few curve balls here, surely, from the Gaelic Continue reading
Visit to Mull’s sea eagles marks International Year of Biodiversity

In an appropriate visit to Argyll, posssessor of the UK’s richest biodiversity, Continue reading
Clydeport: the Loch Striven campaign goes on
And For Argyll has started the year as it means to go on. Continue reading
Tiree Wave Classic and Coll Challenge: fluky wind, naked wavesailors and an Irish winner

In endurance sports, they say that if you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up too much room. Continue reading
Rhapsody in abundance in Argyll

This is what the Irish call a mixumgatherum of creative activities – all human arts are here. Rhapsody rules. Continue reading
Winner of ‘guess the location of the photograph’ – and the answer
We said there was a twist to this one. and there was.
It’s the Yacht Cub at Rothesay at New Brunswick in Canada – the other Rothesay. We were struck by how easily it could be here and wanted to find a way of seeing if you felt the same.
You did. We were offered: Kerrera, Tighnabruaich, Colonsay, Tiree, Strachur and some others too impossible to mention.
Unsurprisingly, no one got the right answer.
But Margaret Purdie from Lochgilphead came up witih a series of surprises. She rang up rather than email and just said: ‘Is it Port Bannatyne?’ Anyone who knows Bute knows that Port Bannatyne and Rothesay go cheek by jowl. When we said ‘Sorry, it’s not’, Margaret then demanded: ‘Well, is it Bute?’
Wherever her inspiration was coming from, she was at once the farthest away from and the closest to the answer – and she is the winner.
She will now tell us what she would like to see us feature or whose life story she would like to see us write and publish. We’ll let you know what she chooses – and we’re looking forward to finding out ourselves.

And below, to show you how close the Tighnabruaich answers also were, is a photograph by Phillippa Elliott of boats at their moorings there. Phillippa was also the photographer behind our recent photo-journalism on a contemporary lost township in Argyll – Polphail.

Both photographs are reproduced here with permission, Copyright to the Tighnabruiach photograph (just above) is owned by the photographer, Philippa Elliott.









