IanRStewart (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tuesday morning - in to the office - you would have thought that the heating problem we had yesterday would have been sorted by now - but no, it's freezing again! Off to Homebase to buy 8 small heaters. Fortunately, this afternoon the problem has been fixed at last. We're off to get our swine flu jabs in an hour or so - I've been told they hurt your arm for a while, so it better be my left arm then....
Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
53 Threshers shops out of the 219 across Scotland are now to close down. There will be 373 closures across the UK out of a total of 1,300 shops which will affect all of First Quench's brands including Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine. As most people know the parent company, First Quench went into administration just last month and have appointed KPMG as their administrator,...
Button Tree Crafts (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I am back ~ and I had a very lovely ~ but very WET weekend ~ in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland. The hotel was just as warm and friendly as I remembered and the picture of the Buachaille Etive Mor was taken just as we arrived from our bedroom window! The weather was very typically Scottish and it rained for most of the weekend and rather unfortunately I discovered that my so called waterproof coat...
Dave MacLeod Climbing (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Nice video of John Cunningham soloing on the Ben in the mid 1970's. Thanks to Paul Cunningham for sharing that. I'd seen this before at the Ice Men gathering I hosted a few years ago at the Fort William Mountain festival with Yvon Chouinard (who shot the film), Jimmy Marshall and Hamish McInnes. It was nice to see it again and watching it made me think how little has changed today in highland climbing....
A Gurn from Nurn (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Nairnshire Telegraph is once again full of sensational local news, leading with details of the proposed by-pass route. Rush out and buy one now (a by-pass or a paper please yourself). There's plenty more including Liz blasting her own council again on Nairn care issues plus an editorial about the plan that was discussed last Thursday night. We can't resist quoting a few words to give you a flavour...
crivens, jings and help ma blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Hullo ma wee blog, Firstly let me introduce you to the man in the photo. His name is Samuel Macpherson and he was born in Laggan in the highlands about 1712 or there abouts. He is standing on a memorial to the regiment of which he was part. It was officially the 43rd regiment of foot but was known as 'Am Freiceadain Dubh'. We know it much better in Britain as 'The Black watch' I have a natural sense...
Planet Bods Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
There can be only one contender. It's the West Highland Line from Fort William and there's only one way to do it. The Caledonian Sleeper.
The Blogshire of Thiessen's on Thames (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Our only short day, and we were looking forward to the luxury of only having to ride 47 miles. We got to start from one amazing part of Scotland and finish in another, leaving Fort William and Ben Nevis (still wrapped in clouds) and ending up along side Loch Ness. We allowed ourselves to sleep a few minutes longer, and as our host was a fellow North American, had big fluffy pancakes and syrup
Travel (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
By Karl Fraser Some of the boldest and most striking scenery in Scotland is found over on the west and in many ways this part of the world is very much on the northwest fringes of Europe. The enormous scenes are simply breathtaking, jagged tall cliffs fall into deep lush valleys, the most dramatic of which is the Great Glen created by a geological shift and further sculpted by the effects of glaciers...
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
One of the world's most advanced rescue submersibles has undergone a series of training exercises and simulated rescues at The Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland. The NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS), which has been designed and built by a consortium lead by Rolls Royce, was tested at The Underwater Centre as part of a seven day training schedule. A free swimming rescue vehicle which can...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
It is not true that, in the future, "electric cars will zip noiselessly along" ( Cleaner, clearer, smarter roads await tomorrow's eco-drivers , 12 October). Above about 50 mph, the noise generated by cars is dominated by that from tyre vibration in response to road roughness and air pumping from the tread as it is squeezed and released; and by wind noise from the turbulent flow over the...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Hundreds of mountain bikers will flock to the Outdoor Capital of the UK this weekend, October 10-11, for the Relentless 24, a 24-hour race in the Nevis Range and Leanachan Forest, near Fort William, Scotland. Just making it around the testing course in one piece will not be enough for racers; instead they will aim to complete as many laps as possible throughout the day and on into the night and next...
eat the right stuff blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
we headed west from glasgow, to fort william. the main reason for this holiday was the opportunity to eat at the 3 chimney’s restaurant on skye, however we soon realised that this was also a great opportunity for us to see some of scotland’s beautiful landscape. the west highland line from glasgow, out towards mallaig (where we caught the ferry to skye), was recently voted top rail journey...
Project Everest (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
This is the second in the series of My First... about different people's mountain firsts. First munro, first wild camp, best munro, worst munro... Part 1 can be seen here . First of today's installments comes from Phil off of the blog Fat & Sh1te . He has great stories and photies, check it out. Phil is currently in training for the WHW Fall doon which he'll take part in along with PTC and Craig...
OmniFootball (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Fort William, the Highland League's perennial strugglers, win their first game since September 2007. Inside Left sheds a tear and opens a tin of Tennents Export to celebrate!
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