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		<title>A bonny view and some balls on sticks</title>
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Nosy Norris and I followed the Pack Leader up the Ullapool Hill paths this morning and as usual his choice of route didn&#8217;t disappoint. Nosy got the chance to bounce around in the heather and chase snowballs (puny wee things, but still fun) and I got my first view of bonny Loch Achall.
A great walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A not so rude awakening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being woken earlier than you want to be is a feature of living in the countryside. When we moved to our house in Nairnshire, there were some hens and a cockerel already resident (abandoned by the previous occupiers) and we soon got used to Mr Oats crowing at the top of his voice any time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/11/a-not-so-rude-awakening/</link>
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		<title>Last of the Two Mile Jam</title>
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I&#8217;ve just used the last of this year&#8217;s batch of Two Mile Jam. I used to make this in late summer or autumn, using fruit grown or foraged within a two mile radius of our garden in Nairnshire, and every time I spread it on my toast I was transported back to the favourite haunts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/11/last-of-the-two-mile-jam/</link>
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		<title>Voices from the dark loch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wee gang of wigeon have been gathering by the shore of the loch over the past few days. There were about a dozen when the PL first noticed them, increasing to thirty-one last time we were able to count them.
The reason we can&#8217;t always count them is that sometimes we walk past that spot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/11/voices-from-the-dark-loch/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official: it was worth it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official &#8211; our move west was Worth While. I knew that already, but the PL proved it today by stepping outside at lunch time, sniffing the air and deciding to go kayaking. He was loaded up by ten to one and on the water at Ardmair Bay by ten past. A couple of hours paddling around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/11/its-official-it-was-worth-it/</link>
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		<title>A change of view</title>
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No posts since June, but I have a note from my mum to say I was too busy upping sticks to log on.
You&#8217;ll notice the view at the top of the page has changed. We&#8217;ve left Nairnshire and headed west to that magical bit of coast where our hearts have been twiddling their thumbs for years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/11/a-change-of-view/</link>
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		<title>Royal Highland Show&#8230; I&#8217;ve got hen envy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the day at the Royal Highland Show on Saturday and my head&#8217;s still spinning. In a good way, you understand. There was everything on sale from woolly socks to astrantias, chicken coops to jewellery; there were gun-dog displays and horses, canoes and coracles; artists and crafters; and I only got round about half of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/06/royal-highland-show/</link>
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		<title>Sun sculptures at Cawdor Castle</title>
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Our recent visit to Cawdor Castle was partly to check out a new piece of art that&#8217;s been added to the gardens. We&#8217;d seen it being lifted in by helicopter a few weeks ago and were curious to see it in position. There are already three other sculptural pieces there, all of which I love: a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/06/sun-sculptures-at-cawdor-castle/</link>
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		<title>Giant hailstones and Scotch mist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually avoid talking about the weather here, but yesterday&#8217;s was so spectacular, and apparently so localised, that it deserves a mention.
It was around five o&#8217;clock, after a dull afternoon, that we had an inch of rain dumped on us with no warning in the space of a couple of minutes. It was accompanied by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/06/654/</link>
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		<title>Cawdor Castle &#8211; most romantic in the Highlands?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cawdor Castle is billed as &#8216;the most romantic castle in the Highlands&#8217;. I&#8217;ve visited it a few times and I can confirm it will have you sighing and pointing at every turn. There are turrets, a drawbridge, a fine art collection and enough tapestry-draped beds to satisfy the most demanding  heritage-junkie. And yes, there are even ghosts.
But what really makes Cawdor special for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/06/cawdor-castle-most-romantic-in-the-highlands/</link>
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