Barvas - 16/05/05

A couple were staying last night who were seeking to buy some land at Maraig in order to buy a house and set up a music / CD-recording business. Excellent. Set off in the afternoon for a visit to the Morven Gallery. This is a small exhibition of artwork by local artists or on local subjects. It is very, very cold today with a temperature of 7C, accompanied by a biting northerly wind, force 5-6. It compares unfavourably with the 18C last Saturday or the 22C on Friday. After leaving the gallery, I walk to the machair (grassland in the dunes) behind Barvas Cemetery, and find a sheltered hollow. Thirty minutes later, I wind my way across to the busstop opposite Sraid na Loch / Loch Street. The bus takes me back to SY at 4.20. In the evening, two ladies arrive from North Uist. It's a lady in her 40s with her mum, who's over 80. A number of interesting stories are told about Uist.