Rumblog

SNH are celebrating 50 years of owning and caring for the natural heritage of Rum by attempting to create the largest pile of rubbish and junk in the Hebrides. As you can see from the photos taken up behind the grand walled garden of the 'famous' Kinloch Castle they are doing really quite well. They are also doing quite well at filling most of the available shed space with large amounts of junk.

Spring is definately in the air on Rum, the birds are singing and the sun is shining. Tourist numbers are building up with many day trippers venturing across to the island to view the amazing piles of rubbish and get a grand tour of the Edwardian eddifice of Kinloch Castle. Or perhaps the publicity generated by the amazing exploits of the AutumnWatch stars the Rum Red Deer are attracting trippers to the island and the west coast in general.

Hopefully you have all bought your tickets for the Sound of Rum music festival starting on 11 May for the weekend. Tickets have all but sold out so hurry if you still want to make it.

More from the Isle of Rubbish (sorry Rum) at a later date.

Still windy here. The boat did come yesterday but it probably won't today because of the severe northerly gales.

Quite a few brambling about saw three yesterday among the chaffinch flocks.

The islands Highland Bull is going to Canna soon, maybe next week. That should be interesting.

Apart from that it is pretty quiet here since the BBC left after Autumn Watch.

It's a wee bit windy today I wonder if the boat is going to come?