Big Freeze continues
The big freeze continues, and the met office are warning that it could last another two weeks. Meanwhile, travel disruption continues, with all important road, rail, and air links across the Highlands subject to continued problems. At a time when councils are facing budget cuts, it seems most Scottish authorities will be forced to over-spend [...]
Driving through Frozen Scotland
When we arranged to spend Christmas week with relatives down south, we could never have expected the weather conditions to be as severe as they were. It’s not just the roads that were bad: roads, rail links, and airports across the UK were disrupted or closed because of heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Driving through [...]
Happy New Year! Nairn in 2010
Happy New Year, everyone. Seems strange for 2010 to be already upon us…but certainly is going to be an interesting year for Nairn, for a number of reasons. One way or another, one thing we can be assured of is disruption. The HC, in their wisdom, appear to have scheduled the streetscape changes to the [...]