February 2025

In 9 days' time, it will be all of twenty years since I came to stay in Barbara's house. It only seems like yesterday - yet, there have been vast and irreversible changes along the way. Barbara herself passed away more than 4 years ago, my parents are both now gone - naming those three people in no particular order. One of the things that has struck me, having re-read my old blogs Northern Trip and Atlantic Lines is that this island does not change. Everything to do with people changes - and you may read that in the broadest possible terms. But Lewis (and Harris) are old and immutable. Their rocks are 3,000 million years old, and will be there for as long as the Earth remains.

I took the below picture on 11th May 2005 at Aline, along the border between Lewis and Harris.