Food fit for a prince – A chef’s blog

As Scottish Food Fortnight gets underway, Kieron Kelly, chef/owner of The Prince’s House Hotel, Glenfinnan, gives us some recipe ideas for the best local produce the Highlands has to offer…

A warm salad of woodpigeon and wild mushrooms with port reduction and walnut dressing
This is a fantastic dish which we serve at this time of year [...]

New blog added: Random Thoughts…

An enjoyable read by Inverness man James Martin.
http://excellentarian.wordpress.com/

Loch Garten Ospreys

The official osprey blog from the RSPB reserve at Loch Garten http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/lochgartenospreys/

EDITOR’S BLOG: Nessie puts food on your table

Nessie’s in the news again. No she’s not been sighted, in fact there’s been no sightings for a couple of years now.
She being dismissed by ’snooty’ Invernessians. They think they’re above the trinkets and mythology that brings the thousands of tourists to their city year after year. They want to position themselves as a cosmopolitan [...]

Hopeman Man

Gary Sutherland lives in Hopeman and is the author of two books with another one on the way. Here you can learn a bit about him, Hopeman and his books. You may also stumble upon other stories and imaginings. Now ‘come awa in!’ as they say in Hopeman.

EDITOR’S BLOG: Money for old rope?

There’s no doubt that we should have a fervent pride in our fishing heritage, and museums around the coast play an important part in documenting its colour and history. But news of a grant (£90,000 to research seamen’s jumpers) that will fund the study of our fishermen’s clothing will probably bring a tear to the [...]

Brocken Spectre

Brocken Spectre is the title of an upcoming epic feature film production exploring one of the Highlands’ oldest mysteries. It is being filmed by the youth-run film company Carrbridge Films. Producer Fergus Thom (18) is documenting the shoot through this blog.

Carrbridge Films

Carrbridge Films is an independent youth-run, non-profit film company.

Chris Townsend Outdoors

Chris Townsend is an outdoor writer and photographer with a passion for wilderness and mountains. Enjoy.

Chris Smith

Chris Smith is an artist based in Lossiemouth, Moray, inspired by the natural world. He paints in acrylic, oil and watercolour, draws with pens and sketches with pencils and charcoal. His aim with this blog is to use it as an incentive to keep drawing, drawing, drawing. He posts his drawings, paintings, photos, thoughts and [...]

Your blogs

Moray Firth Live is building a library of the best blogs in the area.
So we’re looking for Interesting reads from bloggers who live and work in the Highlands, Moray and Aberdeenshire. If you write your own blog, give it a wider audience by listing it on our site. feel free to nominate it, and if [...]

EDITOR’S BLOG: Politicians – publish and be damned

Every councillor in Scotland has been sent a guide on blogging and social networks.
The move is in the wake of several embarrassing comments made by politicians in the run up to the election, which showed candidates in their true colours.
One piece of advice given in the document is: “Think before you write and don’t [...]

Nameless – Renaissance Art in 21st Century Moray

Andy Warhol. Damien Hirst. Tracey Emin. All famous contemporary artists, likely to be known more for their names and media-fuelled reputations rather than their individual art works. Fame is the the currency of the modern art world, but it is the antithesis of the current exhibition at the Moray Art Centre, Findhorn.  ‘Nameless’, conceived and [...]

Added Twitter functionality: @Anywhere hovercards and linkification

The addition of this feature allows correctly formatted Twitter usernames to link to respective account and provide mouseover information.

EDITOR’S BLOG: A beautiful game

It’s not often I write about football. If I’m honest I’m not a big fan and rarely watch it. But who cannot revel in the joy of Ross County beating SPL giants Celtic today.
No-one will be celebrating more than the team after their epic 2-0 win at Hampden, but if they stir such a feeling [...]

ThreeSixFive TrìSiaCòig – A Year in the Highlands and Islands

Tain-based artist Fin Macrae may be half of DUFI, but he also maintains a solo artistic life outwith those graffiti guerillas as a talented photographer. In 2007, Fin ran an ambitious collaborative photography project as part of Scotland’s year-long celebration of Highland culture.  52 people were selected from all over the Highlands & Islands to [...]

EDITOR’S BLOG: Moray Firth Live moves forward with redesign

Today sees the launch of a new design for Moray Firth Live. And we hope you like the new clean, fresh look.
But it’s not just a redesign, it marks a point where we start to get serious about improving it. We’ve spent a lot of time working on the layout and we think we’ve got [...]

New bloggers announced today for Moray Firth Live

Today we welcome two bloggers to Moray Firth Live.
As part of our bid to integrate our product deeper into the community, we appealed for reviewers, contributors, and bloggers to get in touch. We had several replies and we are continuing to negotiate with others, and hopefully will bring you details of more soon.
Neil Huggan from [...]

Zen And The Art of The Bike Shed

We introduce Neil Huggan from Inverness, an arts blogger who will write for us on events and issues around the Highlands. Here he visits the new community arts venue in Merkinch, The Bike Shed.
January 28th 2010 – The Bike Shed, Merkinch, Inverness
I arrived early at The Bike Shed, an unprepossessing, functional-looking building nestled in Grant [...]

Mither’s Doric Blog

We introduce Marguerite Cruickshank, who will write for us in Doric. We believe in supporting the dialects and languages of local people and Marguerite is passionate about the Scots language. She has petitioned parliament for it to be included on the national census in 2011 and her shop in Keith, Mither Tongue, sells products which [...]

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