Author Archives: Bill Cowie

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.

Too Much……………….Part Two

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Part Two of the blog from the other day, yesterday was full on, with the first ‘Cook What You Catch’ trip so I missed my spot for putting up this post, but looking back to the previous week. Last Saturday … Continue reading →

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Too Much To Do and No Time To Do It

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Bill Cowie

It is what it is here, the busy season and the fact that we have started the house building project just adds to the workload. Here’s a load of pictures of what we have been up to this last three … Continue reading →

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Other Stuff From the last Week Or So.

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Bill Cowie

It was all about Hugh yesterday, now the rest of it!! We had a kayak invasion, I’ve just checked the date, it was the 30th of May, how time flies. Loz and Sarah, kayaking visitors from way back to Rona … Continue reading →

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A Lot Has Happened Since You last Looked……..

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Bill Cowie

A Lot Has Happened Since You last Looked……..well that is what Facebook keep telling me. Rona has been just like that, in fact I’m going to do a few posts and post one a day for the next few days, … Continue reading →

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A Day In The Life of Rona……..

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Bill Cowie

To-day, after a week of 20+ degrees heat and sun it is another day at the coalface of Rona. 7am this morning it started: This is the way it was, more about last week later but here is a day … Continue reading →

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The Crew Pot

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Bill Cowie

It is Friday and where has the week gone, or where is the year going. It seems like the days pass too quick around here just now. The last while life keeps getting faster, it feels like we are chasing … Continue reading →

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29 Degrees – No Kidding

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Bill Cowie

We have been busy, it is almost a month since the last post, so much has happened since then but as usual it is all about the weather. So the update briefly is that winter finished Friday afternoon last week, … Continue reading →

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Spring Lambs

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Bill Cowie

It is all about the lambs just now, been flat out as soon as the first lamb appeared on the 30th March. Now we have 10 and a few still to appear but with very little grass and weather that … Continue reading →

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The Days Are Not Long Enough!!

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Here we are and it is Friday already, much achieved but much to do. The sun is shining again so this blog will be a quick one too, we have a full house coming tomorrow so it is a bit … Continue reading →

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It’s All Go.

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Bill Cowie

A wee bit of good weather and we are off into the new season. The forecast this week is very good, after weeks of pretty poor weather it seems that we have a high pressure stuck over us and hopefully … Continue reading →