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Why winning a pub quiz taught me the value of island friendships (opens the original)
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In every pub quiz I’ve ever taken part in, it has always ended in a resounding loss. I’ll go in confident, fuelled by a mediocre general knowledge and a few glasses of something strong, and armed with a team name I’d spent far too long coming up with. And as with any pub quiz, it’s the team that ultimately makes or breaks the game. I couldn’t understand, therefore, why I was always losing. And badly. My friends in Glasgow are some of the smartest people I know, and yet our names were always one
Stormbound on a Scottish island: how a short stay became a five-day adventure (opens the original)
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At 6.50am on Sunday, I’m standing at Rum’s pier handing out life jackets to half a dozen people. Before this weekend, they were strangers, saying a quick hello at the kettle or holding a door open while they walked through the hostel with heavy hiking bags. But today, they’re leaving as friends - being stranded on an island together will do that to anyone. We had known the bad weather was coming for days. A look at the forecast earlier in the week showed a nasty four day stretch with a brief rep
When a slow-boiling kettle on a Scottish island became unexpected lesson in patience (opens the original)
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How much of our lives do we spend waiting? Waiting on a bus, a phone call, our turn at the front of the coffee queue. Counting down hours, minutes, seconds, until something happens. And I’m writing this while I’m waiting for my kettle to boil. Out here on Rum, we run on hydroelectricity, the supply tumbling down the hills that I can see from my living room window. But as with anything, there’s a limit, and for us, that comes in the form of a 5kW cap on our household electricals, else we risk tri
I think Iâve discovered the magic of my Scottish island - and it smells (opens the original)
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When I first put my hand inside the burrow, all I feel is moss. Iâm on the side of Hallival, Rumâs second tallest mountain, with staff from the islandâs nature reserve, and today, weâre checking on the Shearwater colony. Rum is home to one of the worldâs largest breeding populations of Manx Shearwaters, a small, black and white seabird with leather-like wings and a hooked beak. They nest along the mountainside, and itâs time to check on the chicks. I push my arm further into the dark
The tiny island games that bring Scotland's smallest communities together (opens the original)
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You likely have a neighbour you’ve never really met. Perhaps you wave to them over the fence most days, exchange a few words when you’re putting the bins out, and know when they’ve bought a new car or hung a new flower basket. But you’ve never actually crossed the garden and sat down for a cup of tea. That’s a little how I’ve felt about our neighbouring island, Eigg. It’s been there, just across the water, close enough to see from Rum and familiar enough to feel as though I ought to know it. But
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