View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michael MacDonald | Scotland (@ruanaich) Almost 2 years of #Instagram, #iphoneonly & #vscocam across 2 volumes of #blurb books. First time I’ve used them. Lovely finish too.
Month: September 2014
Host failure
Unfortunately my web host is failing miserably at doing the only job they are paid to do. That means I’m unable to upload any media since Friday 26th. If you can advise any hosting alternatives to Easily.co.uk I’d be more than happy to consider. They need to host WordPress and include some kind of easy […]
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Discovering & Documenting our Natural Heritage
Christine who runs the Outer Hebrides Biological Recording website contacted Ruanaich.com for details of the wildlife I had recorded on my Hebridean holidays. She had been made aware of a post I had placed on iSpot of some buoy barnacles I had photographed on South Uist. I also sent her details of the compass jellyfish from […]
Inspiring
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organisation, give me Scott; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a member of Scott’s 1910-12 Antarctic Expedition
Hebrides 2014
Here is an account of my Hebridean holiday. I usually write up the diary when I stop at the end of the day. The date heading are indicative and show when I wrote the piece. Monday 4th August 2014 16:57 I’ve fed on the now expected macaroni cheese, wandered the deck of the boat, tried […]
Power (flush) to the people
This summer while cycling/camping on Vatersay, the first stop on my travels I found this message in the little haven that is the Vatersay Hall Toilet facility. They were putting out an appeal as they had lost their funding for the upkeep of the toilet. I just received a response from a representative thanking us […]