EAGLETON NOTES

This is, of course, a huge topic on which every one of us who read and write blogs doubtless has an opinion. However this is a very narrow a...

Well last week was, from the point of view of Blogland, a complete write-off.  On Tuesday I was up before 0500. I got the early ferry from S...

I arrived home late on Sunday evening after a good journey up the road and a remarkably calm ferry crossing given the huge storm on Saturda...

I arrived home last night. The original plan had been to come today but several texts from Calmac made it clear that the weather could well...

The first time I saw this sight was 1975. MV Suilven had been commissioned and the new route between Ullapool and Stornoway had been opene...

Yesterday, one week after I returned from theatre, David took me back to the hospital. I wanted to walk onto the ward without any stick or ...

This was possibly the one day of our safari that I'd have planned differently. I had originally wanted to show Pauline the Isle of Skye...

The new ferry for the service between Ullapool (on the Scottish Mainland) and Stornoway (on the Isle of Lewis) is called MV Loch Seaforth ....

When I first crossed the Sound of Harris in 1975 it was on a small converted fishing boat - a lobster boat I seem to recall.  We sat down i...

It's seven days and 30 minutes since the Isle of Lewis ferry sailed out of Stornoway with Anna and I aboard for the journey to Bishopbr...

Anna's gone.  We were up at 0540 and Anna caught the morning ferry to Ullapool and thence to Inverness and the Inter-City Gold Bus to...

Last night it became apparent that the ferry was likely to be storm-bound today.  I'm in Bishopbriggs near Glasgow.  It's about 5 h...

When Wendy and the children were here we went down to Harris and had lunch at The Anchorage Restaurant at the ferry terminal at Leverburgh ...