Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Sunday 19 April
Another gorgeous day, but not really warm. Walked to the Iolaire Memorial, about 2½ miles down the coast at low tide, leaving the Beasts of Holm reefs more exposed than I've ever seen them before.
Thursday 16 April
Ten whole years after the loss of 5 people in a storm
surge in South Uist, believed to have been caused by a causeway across
the South Ford to Benbecula, an FAI is still awaited. I think the word
outrage is in order here. That also applies to the decision not to open the causeway apertures from 15 to 250 metres, on (what appears to be)
grounds of cost only.
Wednesday 15 April
Today is the 70th anniversary since the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. It was in Bergen-Belsen that Anne Frank, of diary fame, died after being deported their from her home in Amsterdam in 1944. As the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2 rolls near, we remember the victims of the Holocaust. If a minute's silence was held for each victims, we'd be silent for eleven and a half years.
Tuesday 14 April
There is a row going on in the Inner and Outer Hebrides about ferries. Every year, the Calmac boats have to go into drydock for refit, and the routes each boat plies has to be served by a different ship. The Finlaggan, which normally serves Islay, has been on the Uig - Tarbert / Lochmaddy route whilst the normal ship (Hebrides) is in drydock. The people in Uist are unhappy, as there have been a lot of cancellations (we've had a very bad winter) and the people in Islay are complaining because their replacement boat (the aging Isle of Arran) can't cope.
Saturday 11 April
Attended the exhibition on the Ross Mountain Battery at Gallipoli, in the Drill Hall on Church Street. There was a lot of material there, varying from the humorous to the tragic. I was amazed to learn that the Gallipoli peninsula is the same size as the island of Lewis & Harris. The battle for Gallipoli (Çanakkale in Turkish) began on 25 April 1915, and lasted most of the rest of that year. It was lost by the Allied forces, although the losses to the Turks were some four times greater.
Friday 10 April
Went for a short walk to the cemetery at Sandwick, passing the Battery Memorial on the way. Breezy day, not very warm.
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