Foggy Saturday

Just a wee post to finish and to get up to date (although I did miss quite a few weeks and maybe I will look back and see if I can get them in somewhere).

So to-day the fog that rolled in last night is here, thicker, colder and damper. But I will go in for a swim shortly whatever the weather, it should be fun.

Hard to believe we were in swimming last night at 6pm in glorious sunshine, very warm and less than hour later we could not see the pontoon from the house. To-day going over to the cottages there was a fantastic showing with the dew/fog of millions of cobwebs. In turn it tells us that there is a very healthy insect world going on, these spiders must live on something, not only midgies!! This week with the heat the DragonFlies have been in squadrons, lots of bees, flies and of course midgies have burst onto the scene. Which begs the question given the Conservationists love to tell us we are the most nature depleted country in the world (a statememnt I truly hate), not here. I found out to-day the study of Spiders is Arachnology!!

To-day was a good day for inside work and I spent most of it at the laptop. But swimming beckoned.

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About Bill Cowie

I've been living on the island since April 2002, alone for the first 5 years, my partner L joined me in 2007. We manage the Island for a Danish family who bought the Island in the early 90's. Their hopes for the Island are to make it self sufficient supporting its inhabitants and that is where we come in. We look after the stock, 3 holiday cottages, machinery, boat and of course the visitors. It is pretty challenging but it is a beautiful place to live and work, we love it and strangely enough we love it even more in the depths of winter when all is quiet apart from the gales and rain. We do a bit of fishing, stock work, stalking deer and loads of other stuff. We have good support from lots of people whom we have met over the years and have become involved in the Island. Too many to mention here but keep an eye on the blog, they'll be there for sure in the future.
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