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Article: Weekender; WITH JOHN MacLEOD.(Column)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2004
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With the coming of February, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of corncrake. A fortnight has passed since the Crofters Commission graciously admitted me to the ranks of Highland peasantry, and at the end of May I can start building a des res on my lately acquired five-acre croft on the west side of the Isle of Lewis, and think of shaggy Highland cows. It's a 'bareland' croft - there is no building on it - and its green, rugged acres slope graciously down the hill to a gliding village river and a wide expanse of freshwater loch; through loch and river salmon run, in their season. No one has grown anything on this holding for years. Not a scythe has parted its ...