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Tormod: if you never watch television again…
… make sure you see this first: 24th September at 9.00pm on BBC ALBA. Why should you? If life matters.And how do we know you’ll want to see it? Here’s some proof.This reviewer started to watch the...
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Bute launches tour of Big Man Walking across Scotland
Tomorrow and Sunday (26th & 27th September) – people on Argyll’s Isle of Bute will look skywards at the face of the giant walking amongst them.At 12.00 noon tomorrow (26th September) at Guildford...
View ArticleArgyll’s Ballet West off to crack China
Argyll’s Taynuilt-based Ballet West, defying cliche in basing itself in rural tranquillity, is progressively making a very distinctive mark in the world of ballet training and performance.It is showing...
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Who can tell the story of this Argyll Library van?
Here is a picture taken by a sharp-eyed Argyllach in Brighton last year. It shows a library van alleged to be from Mid Argyll and presumably disposed of as being not good enough for us.Can anyone add...
View ArticleHelensburgh marriage on stage at Glasgow Art Club
Tillie and Ronnie Jeffrey from Helensburgh, respectively 74 and 76 years old, have been together for 58 years and married for 52 of them.In a highly unusual theatrical initiative, by responding to a...
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River Etive to the Corryvreckan: fancy some open water swimming?
A group of members of Mid Argyll Tri & Cycle Club co-ordinate regular open water swimming sessions and are happy for non0-members to come and join in.Now that the ice is melting and Argyll still...
View ArticleHeavy irony (and more?) in proposed UK action at the Chagos islands
This Friday (5th March), the UK Government ‘could make history by creating the world’s largest Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Islands’. This is according to the environmental campaigning...
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Scottish explorer extrordinaire Mark Beaumont in Oban
Fresh from being thrown off his boat when his crew were just a few hundred miles from making the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, Scotttish explorer Mark Beaumont tells the story of the experience...
View ArticleHouse of Lochar publishes Vol 3 on ‘The Byrnes and the O’Byrnes’
House of Lochar, the independent publishing house based on the Isle of Colonsay, with a lot of firsts to its name – like the facsimile edition of The Book of Islay – is now about to print the third...
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A Wren for a Wren at 70th anniversary of Gertrude Canning’s murder
Four generations of the Irish Canning family – something like 40 people – were in Inveraray today for two special commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the murder there of aunt to the oldest of...
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Alistair Strang: Weight loss made easy – an Argyll solution
One of the nice things about my job is I don’t do anything more strenuous than struggle to open an awkward pack of coffee beans (*) and push the button on the grinder.Writing reports about stock market...
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Alesis DM10X electronic drum kit for sale
Oban FM DJ and musician [more on that story shortly], Len Ford, has a drummer friend in Argyll who wishes to sell his Alesis DM10X electronic drum kit – as pictured above.The owner is is looking for...
View ArticleNo nationalist politicisation of the Games?
It was revealed late last night that the Ministry of Defence [MoD] had been approached with a request that the Res Arrows – who overflew Glasgow and Celtic Park in the Commonwealth Games opening...
View ArticleBBC ALBA and STV pick up a little known Scottish women’s contribution to the...
Two days ago, on 29th October one hundred years ago, 1914, Turkey – the Ottoman Empire – entered World War 1 on the side of the Central Powers and against the Allied Powers, of which one was the...
View ArticleBBC ALBA revisits the story of Jessie King, the last woman executed in Edinburgh
The murder of a baby is surely the most abhorrent crime imaginable. When the killer is a woman, society is even more repelled. In Victorian Edinburgh, one young woman was convicted of just that crime....
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