I’m not long back from annual leave and still wading though the inevitable backlog. There are a couple of posts I need to write about events that took place earlier in the summer, and the Wikimedia UK partnership award which the University of Edinburgh won in July 🙂 In the meantime here’s a pretty picture I took while I was at home visiting family in the Outer Hebrides.
Another new day of distilling is getting underway here in the Isle of Harris. Our doors open at 10am but if you can’t join us in Tarbert then follow our story here on Twitter, on Facebook and Instagram or at https://t.co/OfLjR3suHq 📸©️@LornaMCampbell pic.twitter.com/INt8FnkeSg
— Harris Distillery (@harrisdistiller) August 7, 2018
This is Traigh Mheilein beach on the Isle of Harris which is reached by a precipitous walk up and over a slightly scary sea cliff. I tweeted this the day we walked to the beach and was rather chuffed when Harris Distillery (they who make the gorgeous Harris Gin) tweeted it with credit from their account earlier this week. Since people seemed to like the picture, I uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons where anyone can use it free of charge with attribution only.
I spent quite a lot of my holiday taking pictures for Wiki Loves Monument, Wikimedia’s annual photography competition, which will be running throughout the month of September. Last year I raided my old holiday snaps for the competition, this year I have a whole bunch of new pictures to upload including a 16th century chapter house, a cute little Arts and Crafts church that Anne-Marie Scott rudely described as lumpy and squat, the castle where my granny used to work, a Stephenson lighthouse, and the remains of an old whaling station. No strip clubs though….