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Digging commences on the hydro electric scheme

Hydro Power at Torrisdale

There was great excitement at Torrisdale last month, prompted by the arrival on site of a gigantic digger. It’s presence heralded the start of the construction phase of the Torrisdale Hydro Electricity Scheme, which has been six years in the planning. To reach this stage, there have been numerous hydrology investigations, tedious planning applications, a …

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Tree Hugging

I for one am glad to see the back of January. It started badly with a major cock-up by Niall and I. We got our days of the week very muddled after Hogmanay (it wasn't the whisky, honestly...!) and convinced ourselves that a changeover was occurring on a Saturday rather than a Friday. Imagine our …

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Two Hundred Years Young

How apt that my last post was entitled ‘Slowing Down’ as I then ground to a halt with these little snippets of Torrisdale life. Not that life ever grinds to a halt here, far from it. We continued to have a busy autumn and the bookings really only petered out in November but it was …

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Slowing Down

Torrisdale is a spectacle of rich, autumnal colours at the moment and it's like living in glorious Technicolor(tm). I have been away with the kids for a few days and the trees had changed so much in my absence, it was almost an assault on my senses, but in the best possible way. It is …