Wishing happiness and blessings to all our readers at Christmas greeting includes all men on earth of goodwill regardless of religious proclivity and is non gender-specific The schoolchildren are hosting...
Our illustration is from a later edition of David Wilson’s Colonsay Map of 1804; this particular edition includes the new Mill, so is probably dated about 1870, but the edition...
There was a great party for Hallowe’en, held at the Backpackers Lodge and attended by all the children. Commemoration of Guy Fawkes’ bid for parliamentary reform took the form of...
Other local activities include the Scottish Country Dancing practice sessions held on Wednesday evenings,led by Seamus and Christine and supported by about a dozen folk. There is also a Badminton...
Holidays for 2015: If you already have your reservations made, please remember to send any outstanding deposits. If you have not yet booked, please refer to www.colonsay.org.uk to see the...
Because it is looking so smart in our warm winter sunshine it deserves to be seen. Persons with acute vision can see that even the chimney pots have been painted...
COHT has secured the services of Hazel Smith to assist in the professional preparation and submission of bids for funding. Your correspondent looks forward to further news, but is aware that...
This year Colonsay and Oransay Heritage Trust were awarded a grant by the Association of Industrial Archaeology to restore the original Scalasaig minor light. The light, which was oil lit,...
An exciting arrival on the strand this month was a little egret. Only the third record for Colonsay & Oronsay, the egret has been seen feeding regularly in the shallow...
As Andrew Abrahams pointed out, lots of experts may have seen it, but he got the picture: He/she (?) is a snow bunting. Arrived with a bunch of fieldfares and...
Owing to some antediluvian anomaly (going back at least to the time of David MacBrayne) Colonsay suffers from mind-boggling freight charges – a lorry travelling from Oban to Colonsay return...
The editor’s chair is vacant still – the position is unpaid, but it is rewarding in other ways. The main purpose of the magazine is to maintain links with the...
OK – this time Bill and Annie really have gone to Oz; Argyll & Bute Planners came to give their views on possible wind-turbine locations and possible low-cost housing; the...
Most readers will remember the familiar side-loading car-ferry MV “Columba”; in fact she is still a regular visitor to the island in another guise. Anybody who ever travelled on her...
It is interesting to note that the recent publicity about the death rate at Vale of Leven is a curious echo of the outrage concerning the high death rate at...
The following article first appeared in The Corncrake about 15 years ago. Poem by "Colonsay Exiles" June 16th 1943 We wandered up to Clark's Hotel, to meet Mine Host so...
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Though the not-quite-a-drought time eventually ended, summer did not part, as it might have done,...
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