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Lower Links Nature’s Treasurers

Dornoch
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If Natural History captures your interest the Scottish Highlands offers plenty of material to keep you engaged for months. It’s something to do with the geology, the climate and relative lack of people, I guess. Natural history isn’t something I’ve ever studied but I do know several who have, and for them the Lower Links [...]

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Witches Not Welcome Here

Dornoch
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The last witch burned at the stake met her unfortunate end in Dornoch. Or that’s the story around here at least. It seems the Scottish Highlands was the last area to ban the practice of accusing people of witchcraft, and then killing them in the most unfortunate way. Despite the strong influence of christianity it [...]

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Best of the Business Internet – August 30th.

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The Internet gets fuller everyday with information and comment about business tools and business issues.  This week continues the trend and in this selection there’s more interesting news and comment you may, or may not agree with. It’s my newsletter so I’ll start with stuff I wrote about social media.  It’s actually a series in [...]

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Bad Behaviour by Banks and Bankers

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We’ve all been screwed by banks over the years and especially by bad behaviour over the last two, since they got themselves in brown smelly stuff and our governments decided to spend our money digging them out of it. A couple of days ago consumer magazine reported Bank of Scotland coming last in a survey [...]

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Discovering East Sutherland

Helmsdale

Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands is sometimes described as Europe’s last wilderness. Taking a road trip through the heart of Sutherland shows why. There’s nobody there. It’s wild, windy and empty, apart from some hardy souls who obviously enjoy their own company. Our video shows a selection of views as we tour inland, firstly East [...]

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Discovering Lairg

Lairg

Lairg seems the last point of civilisation as we drive into the wilderness of Sutherland. It seems almost every route, to everywhere goes through Lairg. We can be going to the northwest and Oldshoremore or Sandwood Bay, or Cape Wrath or Bettyhill, or Ben Hope or Ben Klibreck- doesn’t matter. Every time we go through, [...]

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Discovering Dornoch Bowling Club

Dornoch

Lawn Bowling is a popular pastime all over the UK, especially with seniors, but also with the young. It’s firmly rooted in our history, with the story of Sir Francis Drake, one of England’s biggest heroes, insisting on finishing his game of bowls before sailing out to destroy King Philips Armada and save the country [...]

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Discovering Dornoch HistoryLinks

Dornoch

Dornoch History Links heritage centre enjoys VisitScotland 5 Star Museum status, and quite rightly, as you’ll see in the video. The displays present stories covering nearly 2000 years of history in a way that’s both accessible and entertaining, for all ages. Not an easy thing to do, as most museums manage to prove. Throughout the [...]

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Discovering Rosal Township

Helmsdale

Rosal Township in the Scottish Highlands is probably the most informing of the heritage sites kept so well by the Forestry Commission. They’ve done a splendid job of the storyboards to help visitors find their way around the site, understanding quite a lot about how people lived back then- before the Highland Clearances. Rosal Township [...]

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Dornoch’s Big Sky

Dornoch

Dornoch is known in the Scottish Highlands as the place with the Big Sky. Quite why I’m not sure. It must be something to do with the fact we’re inland, at least by a bit and not directly on the North Sea Coast. And also we’re far enough away from the hills for them to [...]

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