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ON ISLAY TIME

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

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    • 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

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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

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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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