Angus MacKinnon
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Journalist/Dad on Islay time after London, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong & Rome with @AFP . Politics, sport, food, travel, nature, dogs. French, Italian
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Winter’s dawn. This morning at Kilnaughton Bay, Islay.
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Christmas lights Islay style this afternoon in Bowmore - the young farmers tractor parade
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This is beyond parody. Utterly pathetic American trophy hunters spent two days crawling through the heather around my house on Islay before shooting one of the semi-tame goats that roam the shore and hillsides. And they think they are Awesome for doing it!
#FFS
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The northern lights over the old cemetery at Kilnaughton Bay, Islay tonight … huge thanks to our guests Dan and Nicky
@IslayBeachHouse
for alerting us to the celestial display on our doorstep. We were too busy watching
#TheGold
on
#bbciplayer
😀
@BBCScotWeather
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The MV Finlaggan tilting gracefully to get in to Port Ellen this morning! Well done to the
@CalMacFerries
crew for keeping our holiday plans on track in atrocious conditions.
#StormGerrit
#Islay
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Here they are, about five metres from a coastal path ... those tough-to-track-down Islay goats that hapless American hunter Jason took two days to track down!
#Islay
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Terrible, shocking news. Shane Warne, Australian cricket legend, dies aged 52
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Nice way to be greeted home from school on a Friday - boys were just getting their snacks when they spotted dolphins 🐬 leaping in front of
@IslayBeachHouse
Just caught a little clip of them as they headed out of the bay 🐬🐬
#Islay
#islandlife
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Fantastic footage of the dolphins who were in Kilnaughton Bay, Islay on Sunday (June 4) evening. This was shot by some Norwegian yachties who were anchored opposite
@IslayBeachHouse
and were accompanied by the pod on their dinghy trip to shore.
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Another cracking Islay sunrise this morning to greet
@CalMacFerries
’ MV Finlaggan on the 0700 run from Kennacraig to Port Ellen.
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Scotland in winter: a Highland cow grazing around the ruins of the abandoned township of Lurabus on the Isle of Islay. Behind is the island of Texa, the Kintyre peninsula and the mountains of Arran.
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The suggestion that these are tough-to-track wild animals is laughable. They spend half their time in my garden munching everything but the rhubarb. Have to get within 10 metres before they trot off - the telescopic lenses on the rifles were not really required
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The ruins of the medieval chapel of St Nechtan and the old cemetery at Kilnaughton, covered in a rare dusting of snow at sunrise this morning. Carraig Fhada lighthouse,
@CalMacFerries
MV Finlaggan and the Mull of Kintyre in the background.
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Didn’t last long - the Finlaggan broke down tonight and all Islay fuming. 1800 sailing cancelled, people stranded & more cancellations tomorrow screwing up islanders’ holiday plans. Back to the chaos that is now the norm.
#ferryfiasco
#
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The standby queue for today’s 0945
@CalMacFerries
sailing from Port Ellen, Islay. 7am cancelled due to yet another boat breakdown. No chance of getting on or making our boat to France this evening. £300 to change Hull-Rotterdam sail to tomorrow. Great start to the summer hols 🤬
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Looks like the Kintyre volcano is erupting again - the view from
@IslayBeachHouse
this morning 😀.
#BuonaDomenica
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Ireland looks like an easy row from Islay this morning - good day for breakfast in Ballycastle
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Raw eggs every day & steak tartare the secret of the world's oldest person: Italy's Emma Morano, 116 & Born in C19th
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Last of the light today on Islay ... just before 6.30pm (1830) - moody blue just before dusk claims the day
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The ruins of the medieval chapel of St Nechtan in the old Kilnaughton cemetery with
@CalMacFerries
MV Finlaggan and Carraig Fhada lighthouse in the background -
#Islay
this morning
#snow
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It’s happening! First major phase of work to reopen Islay’s legendary
#PortEllen
distillery underway this morning with the demolition of old outbuildings. After a hiatus of four decades, one of Scotland’s most celebrated single malt whiskies will soon be in production once more!
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Tonight’s moon rising over Port Ellen on Islay in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
🎶🎼🎵 Sound on!
#Fridaynight
!
#Credence
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A good day to be moving rustled cattle over the Rest and be Thankful
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All three sons around the table. Home-made sushi and Islay oysters on the menu
@IslayBeachHouse
. Counting my blessings and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🌲🧑🎄
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Good morning from Islay … rain appears to have finally stopped!
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Islay’s fishing boats are catching again for the local market so this was last night’s dinner: langoustines in Marie-rose sauce infused with wild garlic and giant crab claws.
#postcardfromIslay
#Seafood
#Saturday
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Even wilder today. Good thing about having a 🐕🦺 is that they force you out in all weathers - I keep telling myself 😂🥶
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Imagine if a Labour figure had been caught expressing similarly snobbish views about, say, the owners of white vans
Can't quite get my head around Carrie Symonds reportedly looking down on 'John Lewis furniture'. I think we had our wedding list there. For all but the tiniest section of the population, John Lewis is posh.
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Tonight was probably the loveliest evening of the year
@IslayBeachHouse
- mild and perfectly still but not a midge in sight - they’ll likely arrive tomorrow 🤬🤬, so sad there will be no one arriving for the school holidays.
Spot the heron in the lighthouse reflection!
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Good dusting of snow on the Paps of Jura this morning - as seen from Avonvogie on neighbouring Islay.
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Lovely Inveraray shrouded in the icy haar hanging low over Loch Fyne this afternoon. An unexpected view/photo opp thanks to an unscheduled sick stop. Oh the joys of having young kids in your 50s 😀❤️
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Fishing by moonlight at 530pm - one of the *joys* of Scottish island life after the clocks go back - at least it’s stopped raining, I suppose.
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Sunday morning looking over to the Mull of Kintyre from Kilnaughton Bay, on the Isle of Islay.
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Quite a queue for French expats wanting to vote in London
#presidentielle2017
- Natural constituency for
@EmmanuelMacron
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Snow on the beach, lovely and still this morning! Don’t often get the chance to say that.
#Islay
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Nice layers of colours in the bay tonight after a glorious afternoon of Spring sunshine. It’s like a white haze close to the shore - what causes that?
#Islay
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Hotel Rigopiano dogs survived avalanche, made their way in 2m-high snow to neighbouring village, taken in by woman who has their puppies
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The MV Finlaggan coming into Port Ellen,
#Islay
just after ‘sun rise’ on the shortest day of 2020
#WinterSolstice
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Mum’s in the Ardview pub, kids are into their second hour of playing Fortnite and Dad’s cooking 1970s style fire-hazard chips - social services will be round soon 😀
#fridaynight
in 🏴
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This trip is going suspiciously well. Islay plane left early, bus doors closed behind me like a waiting limousine at Glasgow airport, , first train to Stirling is a fast one and there’s enough time to snap the lights in George square … 🎶 ‘Tis the season to be jolly 🎶🎅🎄🧑🎄🌲
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School rub this morning started with a walk up the hill - too slippery for school bus
#islandlife
#Islay
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Boxing Day fell on a
#Coosday
this year. From today’s walk to the American monument on the
@RSPBScotland
reserve on the Mull of Oa, Islay 🏴
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What an evening it was to be flying home to
@IslayBeachHouse
on the
@FlyLoganair
flight from Glasgow! Here’s why it pays to book seat 2A or 2D. Taking off towards the north, you cross the River Clyde and get lovely views of the Trossachs before quickly turning left …
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Is it just me or does this morning’s Islay sunrise make anyone else think: “Pinot Noir”? 😂
#DryJanuary
#Day10
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Wishing all my fellow tweeters all the best for the festive season. Here’s to a much better year ahead!
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It’s birthing season for the feral goats of The Oa, Islay
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Lovely fading light at the lighthouse this afternoon - can feel the days stretching out already 😀
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Walking in a winter wonderland this morning on Islay ... boys very excited!
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Once stood behind Will Self at the Co-op check-out on Islay. He was wearing a tweed deer-stalker and matching cape and asked: “I believe there is a shop that sells speciality cheeses?”
A bemused cashier replied: “Eh?” Colleague behind called over: “He’s looking for the Spar.”
Loving how Will Self has given a very homme sérieux interview to
@TimesMagazine
‘What I’ve learnt’ slot. And then you see what he’s plugging...
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Spectacular day to have a windscreen changed in Inveraray! 😎☀️🏴
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Goat Fell on Arran (centre left) seen from the southeastern tip of Islay last week. Missing those bright, sunny days.
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Port Ellen in the winter sun, this afternoon. Exiles look away now!
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Sunrise over Kintyre, as seen from
@IslayBeachHouse
on the Isle of Islay in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. January 26, 2024.
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Five and a half months and the walk to the lighthouse will soon not be long enough for Luna, our labrador puppy. She’s already doubling her step count with sniffy sorties into the dying bracken. The look-at-me skip in her step when she flushes out a pheasant … ❤️
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🎶I see a pale moon a-rising/
I see trouble on the way 🎶
Coming up just now over now over Port Ellen - last full moon of the winter. They’ll be going wild tonight in the Ardview 😀🌕🌝
#Islay
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As it turned out, this was our lovely 11-yr-old Labrador’s last walk. No longer able to pass urine, she was sick on the way home. She did manage a final snack - a bit of crispy pork skin. But when she walked away from her dinner, we knew it was time. RIP Lady Lucy of Kilnaughton.
Feels like winter’s put its boots on today on Islay - but the sun did pop out briefly to cheer us up with a Kilnaughton Bay 🌈🌈🌈
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Realised this morning that it will be 17 years this month since construction of the main house
@IslayBeachHouse
was finished. Has stood up well to gales, tipsy holidaymakers and two extra sons I couldn’t see coming at the time 🙏
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Advantages of having a puppy number 73 - getting to see the sunrise more often. Kilnaughton Bay, Islay this morning.
#BuonaDomenica
#VisitScotland
🏴
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Dusk tonight - mornings are still getting later but nightfall is already receding, even if the days are still shortening slightly overall
#Islay
#midwinter
#springisonitsway
😁
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Lovely drive home from Bowmore in the early evening sunshine - had hen harriers flying either side of me at one point.
#Islay
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What a difference a day makes. Yesterday could see Arran one way and Ireland the other. Today only little Texa on show. Bird count on walk down from 200+ to c20. But did spot a curlew, which only rarely see - there’s always something to create a bit of cheer!
#Islay
#islandlife
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Lovely walk today to Port an Eas, a sheltered little cliff-lined cove with a waterfall about two miles from
@IslayBeachHouse
. One of Islay’s many magical places - a great spot to camp.
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The nearest pub to
@IslayBeachHouse
, The Ardview in Port Ellen, has had a lockdown makeover. Looking very smart in the Saturday evening sunshine.
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Our local heron fishing by moonlight this evening at Kilnaughton Bay, Islay
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Snowdrops out in Bridgend Woods, Islay. Good spot for a sheltered walk this morning.
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Not the best of days on Islay but views over to Ireland are fabulous. This is from the Singing Sands looking over to Rathlin island and, behind it, Knocklayd, the 514m hill that rises above Ballycastle, Antrim. Must swim over sometime! 🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺
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A stressful few days for Captain, our Sussex-Cocker spaniel, who fell ill on Friday: turned out he’d eaten a corn on the cob which blocked his bowel. Fortunately our fabulous vets on Islay diagnosed the likely cause just in time and tonight, post surgery, he’s home & on the mend
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We must have the loveliest weather in the country right now?
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Lovely views of the Paps of Jura from Islay’s high road today ... even Islay’s own modest hills have a rare covering of snow this morning.
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Stunning light and visibility tonight at Kilnaughton. The wind turbines in Kintyre look like they are on Texa and
@CalMacFerries
’ MV Finlaggan has been basking in the evening sun on her run into Port Ellen!
#Islay
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Nice visibility this morning from Islay 🏴over to Port Rush area of Northern Ireland, the mouth of Lough Foyle and down the coast of Donegal as far as Malin Heqd 🇮🇪 Took this at the American Monument on The Oa
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Postcard from Islay resumes after a bank holiday rest: not every day you see a thoroughbred former race horse cantering (trotting?) along a deserted Kilnaughton Beach - this elegant chap is enjoying his retirement from the turf at our neighbours
@CornabusFarm
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Beautiful frosty morning on Islay - no snow
@IslayBeachHouse
but a smattering up the Glen Road and plenty on the Paps of Jura
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Today’s postcard from Islay. We are all in limbo but nature will not be locked down: This rowan tree, filmed yesterday, thrives in a sheltered gully at the back of
@IslayBeachHouse
, & has just come into leaf, “aye the first of Spring” as the famous Scottish song puts it.
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You know winter is coming in Scotland 🏴 when it gets to 4pm and a Caledonian muscle memory makes you think ‘lentil soup’. Also on the menu
@IslayBeachHouse
tonight: mushroom frittata with cheesy toast option for fusspot 10-year-old. His mushrooms are in the soup ..🤫😂
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“He was good in the box, then he was good on the box and now he’s in a box.”
Nice line from
@GaryLineker
on what he’d put in his own obituary
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Just finished:
#TheQueensGambit
.
Verdict: So visually fabulous you forgive the literally fabulous plot.
Every scene curated like a museum exhibition: lamps, chairs, wallpaper, parquet floors, rugs.. that fridge!👌
And
@anyataylorjoy
carries off red and green like an Irish queen
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Driving to the
@CalMacFerries
terminal at Kennacraig in new motor and the spotless windscreen means it is like seeing the familiar land and seascapes through new eyes. Is there any better drive in Scotland than the
#roadtoIslay
?
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Saw my first mini-flock of these little guys this week - trying to remember what they looked like before checking reference book, made a mental note: “little pudding of a bird”.
A POKE-PUDDING is a stodgy suet pudding cooked by being boiled in a cloth bag. In the 1800s, the word was also used as a nickname for the long-tailed tit, in allusion to the bird’s rotundness.
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