Blogoversary #20

A sunsplashed photograph of the village of Kyleakin in Skye, 75 miles south of Stornoway. It dates back 20 years, when I was based there for a week or so. Although I had set up a blog some ten days before, it was in Kyleakin that I commenced to blog my activities on a daily basis. 

On October 8th, 2004, I went on a hillwalk in southern Skye, to reach the beach of Camasunary. I post a photograph I took 12 days later.



Nineteen years of blogging has seen me change blogs a few times. I first posted in Northern Trip, which I had to close after AOL ditched its blogging service in October 2008.

I wrote in Atlantic Lines for ten years, before opening A Cobbled Road six years ago. The change always appears to have happened in October, for some obscure reason.

Anyway, over the years I have encountered some great people through AOL, and what we came to call J-land (journals land). Since 2004, some seventy bloggers have passed away; they are remembered in Silent Keyboards - Jland Angels, originally set up by the late Jeannette Oatley. 

Apart from blogging about my own exploits, I have about 70 blogs on my account related to local history and other matters. I hope you have enjoyed reading thus far, and will stay with me for this journey. Here's to year 21. 

Blogoversary #19

A sunsplashed photograph of the village of Kyleakin in Skye, 75 miles south of Stornoway. It dates back 19 years, when I was based there for a week or so. Although I had set up a blog some ten days before, it was in Kyleakin that I commenced to blog my activities on a daily basis. 

On October 8th, 2004, I went on a hillwalk in southern Skye, to reach the beach of Camasunary. I post a photograph I took 12 days later.



Nineteen years of blogging has seen me change blogs a few times. I first posted in Northern Trip, which I had to close after AOL ditched its blogging service in October 2008. I wrote in Atlantic Lines for ten years, before opening A Cobbled Road five years ago. The change always appears to have happened in October, for some obscure reason. 

Anyway, over the years I have encountered some great people through AOL, and what we came to call J-land (journals land). Since 2004, some fifty bloggers have passed away; they are remembered in Silent Keyboards - Jland Angels, originally set up by the late Jeannette Oatley. 

Apart from blogging about my own exploits, I have about 70 blogs on my account related to local history and other matters. I hope you have enjoyed reading thus far, and will stay with me for this journey. Here's to year 20. 

Blogoversary - 18 years of blogging

 I vividly remember this day in 2004, when I was in the then Youth Hostel in Kyleakin, 75 miles southeast of Stornoway, clattering away at the keyboard. I had set up Northern Trip whilst in Kirkwall, Orkney, about 10 days before - but started to keep a diary in earnest on October 8th. On that day, I had travelled to Strathaird for a walk towards Camus Fhionnairidh. That is a beautiful beach on the southern side of Skye, overshadowed by the awe-inspiring Cuillin mountains. These rear up to more than 3,000 feet above sealevel; not Alpine in height, but certainly Alpine from a mountaineering point of view. 

On the subject of blogging, I have kept a blog going since that day, although at the moment my posts are few and far between. After AOL pulled its blogging service in 2008, I changed to Blogger and Atlantic Lines. In 2018, I changed over to this blog, A Cobbled Road. I had satellite blogs, such as The Shell Gallery and a private blog. All these are now archived, following developments in the background. 

I hope to be able to continue to blog, whatever the future holds. 

Thank you for being there.

Blogoversary - 17 years of blogging

This is an image of the village of Kyleakin in the Isle of Skye. Back in 2004, I was staying here in the local youth hostel, now closed down. It is the large white building in the photograph. It is here that I started to write a blog on a daily basis, on October 8th - I named it Northern Trip. The link takes you to the first entry I actually wrote; I have since added entries for the preceding two months. 

Northern Trip was succeeded by Atlantic Lines exactly four years later, when AOL kindly closed down the blogging service.  By that time, I had become deeply involved in the AOL J-land community, which survives today on Facebook. Three years ago, I changed blogs again, and am now here, on A Cobbled Road. Apart from these diary blogs, I have nearly 70 other blogs on Blogger, but those double mostly as websites. 

Do you still blog?