I've belatedly got round to posting a story about my adventures in the hotel business which I did for CNN Travel earlier this year (2020), at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. You can read it on their website using the link below. I've also copied it below in case they take it down. I … Continue reading My Basil Fawlty years: a cautionary tale
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
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
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 