Monthly Archives: May 2012

Pauline Prior-Pitt and the Uist Writer’s Group

Pauline Prior-Pitt  and The Uist Writer’s Group  (click on title for interview)   A kaleidoscope of life images /leading into unknown landscapes / but realms oh so deeply known / Joy of power spoken / richness of being human. (L.P.) … Continue reading

Posted in Outer Hebrides, People of the Uists, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

my preferred photo of the month

This is Patchy, a friend’s dog here on the island. I love this picture and think it could help anyone in stress to relax , to let go completely……Don’t worry, be happy!

Posted in Fauna, Outer Hebrides, Personal | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A visitor

A visitor                                                    Loriana Pauli It was the song of the Willow Warbler outside my window … Continue reading

Posted in Fauna, Nature, Outer Hebrides, Poetry | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A foreigner?

“I have an idea that some (wo)men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they are known from childhood or the populous streets in witch they have … Continue reading

Posted in Fauna, Nature, Outer Hebrides, Personal | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Remembering Uisgebhagh

I have moved recently to Berneray, after having lived two years (June 2009 – August 2011) in Uisgebhagh in the remote south east of Benbecula. – What I called my “back garden” in Uisgebhagh, the landscape of rock, heather and … Continue reading

Posted in Fauna, Nature | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Common Lizard in North Uist ? Autumn 2008

I have spent my childhood in Ticino,  on the south  slope of  the Swiss Alps, in a mountainous, rocky landscape  with scattered vineyards and small gardens where lizards were very common. The boys at school used to build  complicated tools … Continue reading

Posted in Fauna, Nature | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment