Scottish Islands Explorer

The clocks changed yesterday and a few hours later we were acclimatised. Residents on Scottish islands may face some further changes if t...

The clocks went back earlier this morning and more hours of darkness will feature in our lives until next February. This photograph of th...

Red boxes concluded - rather like this derelict one on Soay. The image comes from a blog-watcher in the Pacific North-west of the USA int...

Telephone boxes continued - well, not all of them. There are 5373 payphone boxes in Scotland, but last year 451 of them did not have even...

One blog-watcher responded to yesterday's item by saying he was much amused and by sending these two photographs. The telephone box w...

A feature from the website of Countryfile magazine is about how telephone boxes have been adopted throughout the country. There is a ref...

Fetlar is both fertile and these days full of hope for the forthcoming days of increasing daylight ... next Spring. This may be the time ...

Saturday's item on this blog was right in anticipating Sunday Times Scotland coverage of the slaughter of goats on Rum. It also attr...

The daily-blog, Across the Minch, has introduced several interested parties to Geocaching . It deserves investigating for it could well l...

There have been feral goats on the island of Rum since the 16th Century. From the year 2000 a number of them have been monitored to assis...