• Published On: Dec 1, 20141.4 min readCategories: Community News, Events

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.9 min readCategories: History, Just for Fun

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.5 min readCategories: Community News, Events

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.6 min readCategories: Community Development, Community News

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.3 min readCategories: Community News, Events

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.2 min readCategories: Odds and Ends

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.3 min readCategories: Community News, History

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.1 min readCategories: History

    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,...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20142.5 min readCategories: Nature

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.3 min readCategories: Nature

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.9 min readCategories: Community News, Odds and Ends

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.5 min readCategories: Community News

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20140.4 min readCategories: Politics

    This is the Season of Goodwill so there are none included; in any case we will all get quite enough of politics in the next six months.  We should remember,...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.3 min readCategories: On The Grapevine

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20141.9 min readCategories: Odds and Ends

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20142.6 min readCategories: Odds and Ends

    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...

  • Published On: Dec 1, 20143.6 min readCategories: From The Archives

    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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  • Published On: Jul 20, 2018

    The Front Page – July 2018

    Though the not-quite-a-drought time eventually ended, summer did not part, as it might have done,...

  • Published On: Jun 6, 2018

    The Front Page – June 2018

    The warm dry spell that spread across the whole country in late spring and extended...

  • Published On: May 3, 2018

    The Front Page – May 2018

    Spring came late this year, but by May calving and lambing were well underway on...

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