Ardtornish Estate Newsletter Spring/Summer 2018
CEO UPDATE Spring is upon us and after a long hard winter we are looking forward to warmer weather. My team is completing preparations for the new season. DA MacDonald, our main contractor on the hydro work is completing the work programme on the Socaich extension and the estate is being tidied with much of the heavy plant and [...]
A Brief History of Highland Games in Scotland
In a world where digital entertainment, fast food and exotic foreign holidays are the norm, what place is there for something as unreconstructed and old fashioned as the Highland Games? In a curious contrast to the speed of change in the modern world, the games have in recent years thrived, quite simply because they have not adapted to suit [...]
Morvern Highland Games
13th – 22nd July 2018 Morvern Highland Games is held in the small community of Lochaline across the water from the island of Mull on the beautiful Morvern Peninsula. Held annually on the second Saturday following the first Monday in July at Knock Park, Lochaline, Morvern. The Morvern Highland games are a very friendly, authentic games in a stunning [...]
The Scottish Midge and how to cope!
In any combat scenario it is essential to know your enemy, so here then is the lowdown on that most fearsome of opponents, that fabled beast known for defeating intrepid globetrotters and reducing the most hardened holidaymakers to tears. The Scottish midge. Complaining about the midges or “a’chuileag” in Gaelic is a national obsession, a bit like grumbling about the [...]
Land Management Strategy – Summary for Consultation
25 years from 2018 – incorporating ecological restoration This consultation document – which we hope will circulate widely – is intended to gather opinions about plans to change land use at Ardtornish. It proposes, over a long period – perhaps fifty years or more – to restore a more natural landscape. And it suggests how Ardtornish could support a [...]
Spring on the Ardtornish Estate – a seasonal trilogy (part 3)
On 28 February the ‘Beast from the East’ arrived with a vengeance and much of Scotland ground to a halt. Roads were impassable, public transport stopped, schools and workplaces closed and panic buyers cleared supermarket shelves! After three days of snow we had cabin fever. When day four dawned, Scotland’s fleet of snow ploughs had cleared an escape route [...]
