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ON ISLAY TIME

ON ISLAY TIME

Scottish island life after Rome, Paris, London, Brussels & Hong Kong

  • About
  • Longer Reads
    • My Basil Fawlty years: a cautionary tale
    • Blether then bother, Twittter, news and whisky
    • Top news: you’ve goat to be kidding me
    • Fashion food for thought
  • Travel
    • A winter trip to Spain, day 11: Hugh’s 6 and he’s getting a phone, ok!
    • Cinqueterre
    • A Winter Trip to Spain, Day 10: The Alhambra with kids
    • A Winter Trip to Spain, Day 9: Why I was wrong about Spanish food and about kids and ketchup
    • A Winter Trip to Spain, Day 8: You’re perfectly capable of wiping Jamesie’s bottom Daddy!
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Days 7 and 8: Why didn’t anyone tell me about Zaragoza?
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Day 6: why are some French people so miserable?
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Day 5 Part II: Food and Mood in the Basque Country
    • A Winter Trip to Spain: Day 5 Part I: Missing Lucy
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Days 3 and 4: Limping from Blaye to Biarritz
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Day 2: You ‘nappy-head little moron’ and other meltdowns
    • A Winter Trip to Spain Day 1: time for lunch
  • Islay
    • Watching the Islay weather
    • Beach Cottage
    • Bluebells
  • Food/Drink
    • Wine warriors of the Marches
    • Eggs and Co.
  • Books
    • Mayflies
    • Motherwell and memory
    • Insurrection: Scotland’s Famine Winter
  • My Boys

Category: Islay

Watching the Islay weather

September 25, 2020 ~ Angus MacKinnon ~ Leave a comment

Heaven and earth seem closer here than they do in the city

Top News: You’ve goat to be kidding

November 2, 2018September 25, 2020 ~ Angus MacKinnon ~ 4 Comments

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

Bluebells

April 27, 2017September 25, 2020 ~ Angus MacKinnon ~ Leave a comment

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

My Boys

November 29, 2014September 25, 2020 ~ Angus MacKinnon ~ Leave a comment

Joseph, 18, Hugh 3 and eight months, James 19 months, on my 50th birthday. In Glasgow, 13th October, 2016

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Angus MacKinnon

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.

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