Spray-on ice, Kinlochleven-style… discovered too late to photograph yesterday, so back with the camera this morning and again with tripod just before dark. (more…)
8 January 2018
8 July 2016
East Lochaber and Laggan Community Trust
Something potentially huge for this area, so please try to get to one of the meetings, folks! (more…)
24 September 2015
AJG Parcels wheelie bin drop!
Last Thursday AJG Parcels ‘delivered’ a large, well-packed, wooden elephant in a box marked ‘fragile’. Dumped end-on into my rubbish bin with a card through the door to say so, despite this clearly contravening the terms stated on the card as well as (not for the first time!) ignoring the note I’ve had fixed by my doorbell for years. And, perhaps not surprisingly when I had to extract the green (rubbish) bin from behind the blue (recycling) and lay it on its side to coax the box out, with a broken tusk and more serious injury to its tail clearly caused by their careless — nay, cavalier — handling! (more…)
15 January 2010
Shades of Grey?
A wee photographic conundrum for this evening, before this sign for the Grey Mare’s Waterfall at Kinlochleven finally becomes too worn to read. So why (as first pointed out to me years ago) does it say ‘Grey’ on one side and ‘Gray’ on the other? For our transatlantic visitors (doubt it!), because the sign maker just got it wrong (probably!) or what?