Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
One of many, this derelict house is called a ‘Whitehouse’ on the Outer Hebrides. This one is on South Uist and if you look to the right of the house you will see the remains of a ̵…
I love croft houses and it makes me happy when I see them as they used to be and sad when I see them crumbling away and abandoned.
Cropped image of the Blackhouse Museum, Arnol, Isle of Lewis, eliminating some foreground to provide a better balance to the picture. Picture taken on the 17th May 2010 and sharpened in Photoshop along with minimal adjustments to shadows and highlights. Although the Lewis blackhouses have a look of real antiquity most of the upstanding ruins were built less than 150 years ago. The blackhouses on the Isle of Lewis have roofs thatched with cereal straw over turf and thick, stone-lined walls with an earthen core. Roof timbers rise from the inner face of the walls providing a characteristic ledge at the wall head (tobhta). This gives access to the roof for thatching. Both the animals and occupants shared the same door, living at different ends of the same space. Several long ranges, or rooms, were usually built alongside each other, each one having its own ridgeline giving them the very distinctive look of the Lewis blackhouse. The Lewis examples have clearly been modified to survive in the tough environment of the Outer Hebrides. Low rounded roofs, elaborately roped were developed to resist the strong Atlantic winds and thick walls to provide insulation and to support the sideways forces of the short driftwood roof timbers.
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The summit area of Conachair is home to a colony of the largest, most powerful and predatory of seabirds in northern waters, Great Skuas (Cataracta skua), known in Scotland as "Bonxies". As soon as we approached they got airborne in preparation. They began a concerted series of low level attacks on us, normally at head height. These are big birds, muscular and with a wingspan of 1.5 metres. An attack, accompanied by a tearing rush of air as the bird passes, gets your full attention. We were most careful to avoid any area where there was a possibility of a nest, but it seems that the mere presence of a human (or anything else) in the area is enough to trigger an aggressive response... Everything about Bonxie behaviour and body language exudes menace, even when they are not attacking. Relatively recent arrivals on St Kilda, Bonxies are predatory pirates, they will attack and kill smaller birds, kill lambs and make a speciality of ganging up on Gannets, grabbing wings or tail and forcing the Gannet to disgorge its load of hard-earned fish. It's fair to say they don't mix well with others...... Amongst ornithologists, small and nondescript birds are known as LBJ's (Little Brown Jobs). We christened this group of Bonxies as BBB's, which needs no further explanation! In an attempt to get good pictures of an attack, Gordon and Douglas formed a team, Gordon standing as a target and Douglas taking the pictures. I was having my own personal issue with a Bonxie. One individual took great exception to the fact that I wasn't ducking under attack but standing my ground to take pictures. Clearly this was a grave insult to his Bonxie pride and he attacked with renewed menace. It became a battle of wills. In this post, Douglas has captured the attacks from about 25 metres away, including the moment just before...... The bird powered in and hit me a resounding slap on the forehead with its feet. Honour was restored, the Bonxie went off to perch on a cleit and I moved away. We were rather glad to move out of the combat zone!
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A blackhouse[1] igh-dubh[2] [t̪ʰə ˈt̪uh]) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Ireland, the Hebrides, and the Scottish Highlands.
This little stream runs along the side of the two remade Norse Blackhouses (one of which has a mill inside) on the Isle of Lewis.
Les blackhouses ou black houses sont des habitations traditionnelles d'Ecosse et d'Irlande qui parsemaient le paysage il y a quelques centaines d'années.
