When you think of Lighthouse Keepers, do you think of men? I did. But the men had families. They had wives, and their children often grew up operating the lights. In America almost 200 women were lighthouse keepers, inheriting the role when their husband or father died. There …
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There is a widespread belief that ‘Airbnbs’ are taking affordable housing away from local people. (And, yes, I know not all holiday lets are AirBnbs, but it’s a generic term like hoover, and that is half the problem). This isn’t new. From the 1980s onwards, residents in Cornwall …
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Something a bit different this month. I usually write about the places you can go here in Caithness, the landscape, people and wildlife. This is not directly about those things. But bear with me…. I’ve not yet read The Salt Path, so I don’t have a sense of …
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