EAGLETON NOTES

Usually the sea below my house is audible in my garden. It can be relatively gentle lapping or the thunder of heavy waves in a swell or driv...

However just to cheer those of you languishing in inclement conditions it's 2100 hrs on Lewis and this is my view: It's a s...

I looked out of my window one dismal morning recently just before a spell of really nasty weather hit us and lo and behold NATO was at it a...

It is often remarked that the sea, and in particular The Minch which is that stretch of sea between The Outer Hebrides and the mainland of ...

This morning I woke so it was, as I always say, a Good Morning.   I made a resolution as I was getting up to do nothing at all until I ...

with a little bit of red. I can't make up my mind whether the beautiful weather yesterday and today with sun and blue skies intermi...

I am sitting in my Study this morning looking out over a glass-calm Minch to the Scottish mainland with not as much as a whisper of air so ...

The sky was clear enough to see the moon last night:

The light striking through the morning clouds over The Minch can be very atmospheric:

I love the sea. That's no secret. I live by the sea. Rarely does a day go by when I don't sit and watch it. The moods of the sea are...

It has to be said that even in the Outer Hebrides full-blown gales in August are unseasonal.  Yesterday was unseasonal!  Yesterday we had a ...

It got into double figures.  I recorded a maximum of 11.2 deg – fleetingly.  It felt a lot colder in the wind.  And this is the middle of Ma...

I know that I have posted many versions of the view from my house in Eagleton.  When I returned I was disappointed to find that the weather ...