Thursday 26/01/06

Yesterday, three workmen came to stay for the night, to leave on the early morning ferry. They had come over to install a large kitchen in Barvas. Sunrise shows a blanket of cloud moving across the sky, leaving Skye and Applecross in the clear. Forgot to mention that I met the lady who lives at Arnish Lighthouse yesterday. Isles FM had no local news - nothing ever happens here. The roadworks are finishing today. Only a sliver of bright sky is visible from under the clouds. The regional papers have more news than Isles FM. I notice that 15 plots of land are for sale in the island. One of them has been on the market for nearly a year. It is for a plot of land above Loch Seaforth (see 2nd pic for general view), 3 miles southeast of Balallan. No neighbours, no services (mains whatever) and no other visible structures. YET. They are proposing to build a 133 turbine windfarm on the hills to the south, each turbine measuring 450 feet / 135 m in height. That prospect put me off putting in a bid. Microwave dinner consists of sweet and sour. Eorpa, BBC 2 Scotland, features the continuing saga of the Renal Dialysis unit in the local hospital. I've summarized the current state of affairs in my Arnish Lighthouse blog, available from Friday 27th midday (GMT).