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Siân Swinton

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✍️Editor aig Am Pàipear - editor@ampaipear.org.uk 🧑‍🎨Neach-ealain - sianswintonart@gmail.com

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It’s potatoes

07.03.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Saw my mum for lunch today and came home with a bag full of frozen mince.
Last time it was three bags of frozen pork.
Bets on what it’ll be next week.

01.03.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Was listening to Nan Things on Radio 1 this morning and I think we need a Hebridean Dad Things chat.
What’s your Hebridean Dad Thing?
My sister and I used to call phone calls from our dad “The Obituaries” because it was always the download on who on the island had died that month.

25.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Hallan Cemetery Road, Isle of South Uist, organized by Rathad Hallan The Hallan Cemetery is maintained and cared for by the local community, with e… Rathad Hallan needs your support for Hallan Cemetery Road, Isle of South Uist

A fundraiser to replace the road to Hallan cemetery in South Uist has gone over £9,000 in its first day. Click the link below to donate to the cause or read more.

14.02.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
An image of the Am Pàipear newspaper front page for February 2025 alongside text that reads: February edition out now! The February edition of Am Pàipear is now available in shops across Uist and online! Contact sales@ampaipear.com or head to ampaipear.com to sign up for a subscription

An image of the Am Pàipear newspaper front page for February 2025 alongside text that reads: February edition out now! The February edition of Am Pàipear is now available in shops across Uist and online! Contact sales@ampaipear.com or head to ampaipear.com to sign up for a subscription

Our February edition is out now! Pick it up in shops across Uist now or head to ampaipear.com to get our digital version. Subscribe to get it straight to your inbox or letterbox every month!

13.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I take a short walk to the shop to buy lunch
My Apple Watch: Make sure you don’t forget to log this strenuous workout, champ!!

06.02.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to look these things up but all I get on google is suggestions of “spooky graveyard ambient noise”

03.02.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s the score with these devices people are putting in the cemetery that make horrendous noises? I’m guessing they’re meant to scare away animals but they’re making it genuinely unpleasant for me to visit my dad. Any recourse to get them banned at all?

03.02.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The hardest part of running a paper in a rural area is, without a shadow of a doubt, dealing with crofting notices.
I’ve never sweat so much in my life.

29.01.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Attending the NUJ webinar on AI and Ethics this evening and discussing the governments current consultation on AI and copyright. Not a great look for the future and if you produce any kind of content it’s worth responding to it and writing to your MP.
Find it here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...

22.01.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This email is very much targeting the wrong audience.

29.11.2024 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taken almost 6 years ago on mine and Max’s wedding day with our lovely Merlin posing in his finest bow tie.
Sadly, we lost Merlin last week and our lives are that little bit duller than before.
The most wonderful big boy you could ask for and I only hope that wherever he is now he’s running again 💛

27.11.2024 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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