You can’t stop Nairn golfers
Remember the freezing fog we have a few days ago, and how it covered the world with thick frost crystals? Apparently, that was not enough to stop the keenest golfers, as a blog entry in Golf Monthly relates: Fergus Bisset: The hardy boys At this stage, most people would have taken the hint and decided [...]
Aquadome not open until March
Well, my eldest daughter has her 10th birthday later this month and has been nagging to take a couple of friends to the Aquadome as her birthday treat. It’s a brilliant place to take the kids at any time – it’s often hard to bring learning and fun into the same activity, and living on [...]
Easter is nearly here…
Or so you’d think. Shopping at Morrisons at the weekend one of my daughters pointed out…Easter eggs on display. And Newsbleat sees it in other shops across Inverness. Perhaps Easter comes sooner to Inverness than the rest of the UK…
Local Birds in Focus
Hah! Now you’re wondering whether I’m about to post something on Miss Nairn or Ornithology? And no doubt, you expect to be disappointed – so let’s keep that moment and stick to Ornithology. Whoever is behind the Scotland Caravan Holidays blog posts a pic of a Snow Bunting seen on Nairn Beach. This follows on [...]
New sewer system in the works?
As usual, it seems that upgrades to services for Nairn are in the far future: Work starts on upgrade for water treatment works at Ardersier “The upgrade at the Ardersier treatment works is for developments at Whiteness and Inverness Airport that are definitely going to happen.” He added that additional infrastructure for Tornagrain and Nairn [...]
Nairn 2008: According to Flickr
Something about photos brings a sense of pathos to me – moments caught that are gone forever; people and places as they were then; time frozen in the fragility of a medium. As the internet’s biggest photo site, Flickr manages to tell a story of story of people whose lives crossed with Nairn in some [...]
Nairn in Frost
The freezing fog we had for four days is gone; the thick frost that crystallised on everythning now melting or already gone. Bill Cameron posts some nice pics of west Nairn in the freeze here: Nairn in wintry sunshine – Hogmanay 2008 Meanwhile here’s a few simple pics from the east: Dunbar golf course – [...]