Archive for November 2022

Paul MacKinnon restored island honour with his fourth Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally win, when the sell-out 50th running of the event reached the Tobermory finish shortly after two o’clock in the morning on Sunday 16th October. Celebrating the half-century of Britain’s most popular and arduous event, the route and the rally certainly lived up…

Consultation on this year’s winter timetable for the Craignure-Oban service began months later than it should have, due to uncertainty surrounding the closure of Uig whilst it is upgraded in preparation for the arrival of Hull 802. Although draft timetables were apparently in circulation within CalMac as early as July, none were shown to the…

This year’s festival took place a little later than usual, from 19th-23rd September, but was well worth waiting for. We were treated to works by Beethoven, Britten, Elgar, Glazunov, Haydn, Janacek, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and of course Mendelssohn, played as usual by a mixture of young classical musicians and their mentors, the members of the Doric…

In late January my friend Jane was strolling along a beach on Iona, looking for plastic washed up amongst the seaweed when something odd caught her eye. My `phone rang. “Joyce, it`s Jane. I`m on the beach and I`ve found a turtle.” “A what?” “A turtle, and it`s alive and I don`t know what to…