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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.

A Hint of Spring

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Bill Cowie

We had a hint of spring last weekend, nice warmer days and dry at last, then the week got going the wind is now in the North and Winter has returned. Priority job was to have a look over the … Continue reading →

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The Black pot- Poit Dhubh

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Bill Cowie

This was the scene in between the snow showers to-day, this is for JB at Nikon, Dublin who, most of yesterday had to put up with my questions!! Yesterday the weather was foul and the day was not fit for … Continue reading →

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All About The Weather.

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Looking through the files as we try to tidy up the mountain of paperwork on poor days of almost continuous bad weather I came across this map. We bought the map with the right to use it on the bottling … Continue reading →

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Henry’s Here!

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Bill Cowie

I never get tired of the view, especially on days like this (below) but they are few and far between at this time of year. As I post this the roof is getting a fair bit of a test with … Continue reading →

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One From The Files

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Here we have a map I found (again) whilst I was looking through the Rona History  files. I was telling Julia and Julie (Calum the Road’s daughter) about the three or four files of Rona history we had and I … Continue reading →

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The Rona Postmen

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Bill Cowie

I called Julia to-day, we were having a chat about Rona in her day here, always a good blether. We like to talk about the old times. I told her I had come across some old photos she sent me. … Continue reading →

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Flying High

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Bill Cowie

We have a Pal, he was passing the other day but had no time to drop in, maybe some other day!!!!! It was clear pretty much most of that day to the North of us but a bit of cloud … Continue reading →

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A New Year, Dry at Last.

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Our sympathy lies with the folk around the country suffering the floods of the past few weeks. We are well used to it for sure out here and on Skye, however, it is strange to see so much rain falling … Continue reading →

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New Year Sunset

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Bill Cowie

Just a quick post tonight!! It has been a busy day to-day, our New Year guests left around 11am. The wind is out of the East and that makes for good dry conditions. The clouds to-day have been very unusual … Continue reading →

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Happy New year To You All.

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Bill Cowie

We had our usual trip up to the brow of the hill last night to take in the New year, it was a cold windy night with a shower of rain of course. But the best bit was when we … Continue reading →

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