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Salvation From the Sea?
Climate change is the biggest challenge of the 21st century, and the main culprit is the excessive CO2 output caused by the burning of fossil fuel. Scientists have found that Nature itself…
Poem of the month
chosen by David Underdown The Rabbits of Skomer by Maggie O’Dwyer I could lie in your voice, float in it, drift out to sea, hang off your soft vowel sounds, make a…
The Machine Embroidery Group
On Wednesday mornings a few people gather in the Rangers Centre at the Castle with their sewing machines, fabrics and threads to do Machine Embroidery. It all began after an Arran Visual…
Walking on the Wild Side: Winter’s coastline
Lucy is a mountain leader and wildlife guide with a passion for wild places. In the first of a series about walking and wildlife on Arran, she describes a favourite coastal walk…
Surprises about hen harriers
Of all discoveries made by British hen harrier enthusiasts in recent times, that made by Don Scott in Northern Ireland was the most surprising. To an unsuspecting world he quietly revealed the…
Photos from Mo
Mo Khan of Dippen sends us some great photographs. He explains how they were taken and adds technical details, as follows: Curlews These shots were taken on a bright but very windy…
Words from Douglas Fulton
Jim Henderson sends us some notes written by Douglas Fulton, then the Lamlash minister, in April 1965. At the time, Harold Wilson’s Labour Government was taking over from Alex Douglas-Hume and the…
How to buck the trend – one good American bank
Uniquely in the US, the State of North Dakota owns its own bank. Quakers introduced public banking in their original colony of Pennsylvania, but North Dakota is the only state to have…
From Lamlash to Canada in 1829
Jim Henderson of Lamlash continues his story of how the Clearances caused so many Arran residents to emigrate to the Megantic County of Canada. Here, he gives some of the background to…
Great websites
Same idea – if you have a favourite website, maybe you’d like to share it with other people. So far, we have the following: www.topdocumentaryfilms.com is a great website. It provides a…
Book review
Team Twenty Ten by George Korankye is a fantasy thriller with a radiographer as its hero, ably assisted by his intrepid pharmacist wife. In a scenario where a new form of flu…
Bookshelf
We ask readers to send us a note of any book or books they like a lot. No need for a detailed review – a couple of lines to say what’s good…