Tag Archives: BERNERAY

Harvest Moon Beach

Posted on December 6, 2014 by lorianapauli

Harvest Moon Beach (September 2014) I didn’t see the Harvest Moon last night; the sky was clouded, closed. But on today’s afternoon my feet touch virgin sand. My beach has changed. According to the dictate of the moon the sea … Continue reading →

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a colourful harvest on our beach

Posted on June 28, 2014 by lorianapauli
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Interview with Gloria MacKillop in Berneray

Posted on April 4, 2013 by lorianapauli

Gloria MacKillop arrived 46 years ago to Berneray, the ‘island of bachelors’, to be a relief district nurse.  Her plan to stay for three months and then go back to Australia fell apart when she met ‘Splash’, her husband to … Continue reading →

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Impressions from a walk to Bustara Beach 21.3.13

Posted on March 21, 2013 by lorianapauli

While the mainland of Scotland and many parts of the UK are experiencing a hard winter with cold and snow into late March, we here in the Outer Hebrides get dry and often sunny spells and no snow. Today the … Continue reading →

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Valentine day’s choice of colours

Posted on February 15, 2013 by lorianapauli

with a poem by Peter Kerr there is a softness in the late-afternoon sky the pale pastel palette suffused with a subtle chalkiness that merges the lightest of blues with lemon-highlights left behind by the departing sun these lying between the hinted gentle greys that grow in depth within … Continue reading →

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