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There is, just to the West side of the 18th green of the Isle of Colonsay Golf Course, a large stone lying between many a golfer and a satisfactory finish on the last hole of one of the world’s great machair courses. How to describe it – a nuisance? Out of place? It is neither. It seems the stone is a relic of Gaelic culture – alifting stone no less, or Clach Togalaich that has lain there, or thereabouts, since ...
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For the fifth year running the RSPB Seabird Tracking and Research (STAR) team has returned to Colonsay for the summer months. This year the team consists of Tessa Cole, who is well known to many residents after four seasons on the island and Ruth Brown, who is new to the project but has previously worked on seabird tracking studies in both Antarctica and Hawaii. Tessa and Ruth will be working at the seabird cliffs on the west coast of the ...
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Three new faces will be at Monday evening training sessions at the fire station as Fire Scotland increases it’s team on the island.
Phil “on the hill” Jones, Matthew “Cammy” Cameron and Scott “Del” Liddell are spending three successive weekends doing basic training on various aspects of fire fighting and rescue services.
A spokesman for the island station said the new recruits will eventually be able to take a full part in fire fighting duties on the island and in time will ...
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A major event to mark the centenary of the death of the first professor of Celtic studies at Edinburgh University, Colonsay born Donald MacKinnon, is taking place on the island this month.
The aim of the conference is to mark the 100th anniversary of Donald
MacKinnon’s death by looking at aspects of his illustrious life and work, and
shining a spotlight on the outstanding human and natural heritage of his
native island. It is hoped that, by celebrating Colonsay’s past, the ...
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There is a moment in everyone’s life when they have the ultimate realization… an epiphany if you will. They realize that beyond everything that this world has to offer, beyond our lives, beyond our wars, beyond our loves, and beyond our hate, that there is so much more out there… Yes my friends it is the realization of insignificance. The moment when each of us realize how infinitesimally small we are in the grand design of the universe. In that ...
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The Isle of Colonsay’s online community newsletter
Issue 266, February 2014.
Table of Contents
Articles
Community’s purchase of hotel falls through
Burns’ Night 2014
A tribute to Mrs Flora MacNeill
RSPB Report
2014 Colonsay Book Festival
McNeill ancestry enquiry
Isle of Colonsay Golf Club
Seal pups at Ardskenish
COMMUNITY HOTEL PURCHASE FALLS THROUGH
The Colonsay community has been preparing a bid to buy the hotel in Scalasaig for ...
