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Not a bad start to our ringing here in Uist, we did our first ringing on the 16th August and have been catching at two sites - our garden and the garden next door. The two gardens couldn’t be more different - Bill has been in his house 30 years and the vegetation is, for [...]

I’ve changed my name to Miss Whiplash this week and with very good reason. Are you thinking figure-hugging black leather trousers and top , thigh high stiletto boots, whip in hand at the ready?
No, the reason for the name change is more due to the injuries i think i must have sustained due to Ian’s [...]

We’re glad we took the precaution of booking the ferry ahead as when we arrived at Uig, Skye to collect the tickets people enquiring about going across to the islands were being told there were no tickets available until Monday of the next week. It was drizzling so we headed for shelter in the nearest [...]

Well it’s been somewhat of a stressful ten days or so since the last update - ending in good news though as we’ve now exchanged contracts on Ian’s house sale and had the offer accepted on a lovely place in South Uist (a bungalow for when we are old and decrepid haha). Packing up the [...]

One of the things we were excited about was being able to moth trap in a totally different area than the rather built up Hertfordshire town that we currently call home. Our holiday cottage was an old cottage with walls three feet thick and consequently had a deep porch. As the weather was fairly breezy [...]

Can’t believe it’s nearly four years since i’ve been in the islands. What the heck is the attraction, you might ask, of bleak windswept islands off the north-west coast of Scotland. The weather is always cold and windy isn’t it? Mmm, you just keep believing that and stay away
I’m sure that Ian has [...]