This is a father’s journal of travelling from the Isle of Islay in Scotland to Spain in February 2019 with my partner, Tissy, and our two little boys: Hugh, who will turn 6 during our trip, and James, who will be four just after we get back to Britain. Idea is to track the experience of a family road trip, what we see along the way and reflect on some … Continue reading A Winter Trip to Spain Day 1: time for lunch
Author: Angus MacKinnon
Journalist and father of three boys currently living on the Isle of Islay after posts in London, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong and Rome.
Top News: You’ve goat to be kidding
I have mixed emotions about Islay's feral goats. They're a photogenic bunch and our guests at Beach Cottage love to snap them snacking on seaweed on their strolls to Carraig Fhada lighthouse. But the caprine chums have also chomped their way through hundreds of my trees and stamped their unclean cloven hooves all over my … Continue reading Top News: You’ve goat to be kidding
Blether then bother, Twittter, news and whisky
Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, indispensable even. But as we all now know, because the New York Times has told us so, it's not the best place to get your news. Nor is anywhere else on social media, the paper's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo concluded after an experimental switch-off of his new media … Continue reading Blether then bother, Twittter, news and whisky
Bluebells
Pictures of bluebells always make me miss Islay at this time of year. Partly because I never know how well they are showing in and around my trees at Beach Cottage. These are in the lovely mature wood at Bridgend, in the center of Islay. The land is owned by Islay Estates, who do a good … Continue reading Bluebells
Has been a while …
Spam can be quite useful sometimes. I just got an email warning me that my blog domain was about to be 'removed from international search engines' - and inviting me to click on a link to register my desire to stay on their listings. It reminded me that I had a blog, a neglected one. … Continue reading Has been a while …
Fashion food for thought
Sadly I didn't have the space to include that little episode in my final wrap of the week which had to address the far more important issue of: Why nipples are the new cleavage
ON ISLAY TIME 