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The Isle of Harris Distillery
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you won’t have escaped the seemingly unstoppable rise of Scottish gin.
One brand that seems to encapsulate the ethos of championing not just local produce but a sense of community is the Isle of Harris Gin, in that very distinctive blue bottle, used, when empty, for a variety of different purposes, including many restaurants for serving table water as evidenced by our own editor on more than one occasion.
The Isle of Harris Distillery, or the Social Distillery as it is often referred to, was opened in October 2015, in the small harbor village of Tarbert, the vision of Anderson ‘Burr’ Bakewell, a man who has been connected to the island for many years.
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Writing on the wall for Welsh Post Office poster delivered to the Highlands By Alasdair Fraser Published: 13:00, 07 March 2021
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It would all be Greek to your average Post Office customer in Inverness.
In fact, the bilingual Covid-19 âstay safeâ sign adorning the entrance window at the busy Queensgate city centre branch has been part-written in Welsh.
The bemusing choice of language in Gaelic territory 500 miles north of the Welsh capital Cardiff caught the eye of Inverness-based book publishers Ablekids Press.
Writing on her Facebook page, Pauline Mackay, owner of the independent publisher of childrenâs and Gaelic books, said: âHere at Ablekids Press we are all in favour of bilingualism and encouraging language learning, but we have to laugh at the English/Welsh poster on the door of The General Post Office in Inverness.
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