Sarah Duce

Good Day!
Castlebay, Barra, (Barraigh) by Douglas Percy Bliss 1933
Oil on Canvas
(Currently for sale with Liss Llewellyn)

Flodabay flyer!

What else is there to do with a small nephling than watch him climb tree stumps and recreate paintings of St Sebastian.

My Duce ancestors are some of the first to cook fish and chips! They moved from Cambridgeshire up to Bradford to feed the masses. Clara “Granny” Duce was quite the business woman.

A big ole muff!

Can’t beat Scarista.

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**Last minute exhibition news**
Starting this Tuesday (March 11th), a selection of my photos from Buzzcocks's first trips to the USA in 1979 and 1980 will be on display in Glasgow at Trongate 103.

More info: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/a-teen...

Pinch out the fading flowers and make sure its not missed the water last time it was watered.

White quartz curved around lichen covered rock

Bands of quartz and ribbons of bedrock

White quartz and shaggy black dog

Curly quartz with dog for scale.

My grandad owned this. Which was worrying when you saw his homemade food blender made from a lawnmower engine (kitchen repainted, nanny furious) or loft conversion which used cardboard instead of plasterboard and electrical work so dangerous the sparkie took it out to frame it!

Rummaging around, I found this. George Bernard Shaw correcting the editor.

Our house was not connected to electric till 1982 and I can remember my mum getting a twin tub. It was a great day if slightly terrifying as it danced across the floor.

Our arch rivals on primary inter school sports day. They had the upper hand on the running, what with having flat grass but we usually triumphed in high jump as we practiced by jumping over the wall in Manish.

Seilebost School, March 2010.
Number of pupils: 6.
Closed 2013.

How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social
#MotherLanguageDay
theconversation.com/how-scottish...

Butteries/rowies do they count? Super savoury and must be buttered till you can leave teeth marks in the butter. Although traditionally east coast Scotland I work with a lady who has made a dark chocolate and nutmeg versions, plus the regular that she sells from a honesty shed in the Isle of Harris

And some in the museum in Stornoway.

Crogans cave, Lingerbay.

My dad’s favourite item in the museum.

Lichen covered stone, surrounded by traditional polished headstones. Mountain in background.

Stone erected in lawn, to collect lichen’s.

My dad put an old lintel from this house in the garden, (aligned to the front door!) where it was a modern day menhir till his untimely demise 30 years later. It is now his headstone. I live here now and have installed mine in the same spot, hopefully not needed soon!

My dog gets my second slice!

It was the old post office, in the village of Manish, it was hard sure, but it would have been a busy place. My old primary school is just beyond, we used to play here. A very old photo, barely a roof now.

Spelt Stornoway!

Is anyone else watching the White House press conference??? Just wild, four years of this to come.

This instantly reminds me of my grandma Toni, who used to make this regularly. Here she is in her kitchen making tea cosys chic.

Stornoway.

The novelty soon wears off, fingers crossed it is back on soon.

Following for more Flodabay pier content.

Aa you can tell by my profile picture I am the self imposed guardian of the GR. Ao many guidebooks, satnavs and tour guides get it wrong! Maraig to Leal a li is golden, otherwise you are on the Bays road (C79) down to Rodel or the main road🤓😉

No worries. Now you know!