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A luxury self-catering cottage for couples' (dogs warmly welcomed 🐾 🐾)

31/10/2026

Pop along to Talla na Mara tomorrow folks , raising money for crossroads

30/10/2026

Happy Friday. Have a fab weekend 😀

27/10/2026

26/10/2026

🔺 P O W E R C U T S 🔻

It seems a few parts of Harris are still without power and some until tomorrow evening.

The Community Centre will open from 1pm to 9pm tonight for anyone wishing to fill flasks, charge devices, heat a meal or to help themselves to a tea or coffee. ☕️

Harris Bowls are on between 7:30pm to 9pm for anyone wishing to join in!

26/10/2026

If you have been affected by the recent power outages, The Harris Sports Centre is offering FREE Showers to anyone who is in need of a wee freshen up.

Please see current timetable pinned to the top of our FB page for information on our opening times for this week.

Just let Staff know at reception on arrival and we will be glad to welcome you if you are one of our regulars or just visiting for the first time. Thank you - Sports Centre Staff

25/10/2026

❤️ There are two small words that Gaelic speaking mothers and grandmothers have murmured to babies for centuries, by the fireside, over a cradle, at the end of a letter: mo chridhe.

It means my heart. Mo is my, and cridhe is heart, said roughly like mo chree-uh, with the ch soft and breathy at the back of the throat, as in loch. When the word is used to call to someone directly, Gaelic changes it to a chridhe, something like dear heart, a way of speaking to a child, a sweetheart or an old friend with real tenderness.

Cridhe is a very old word. It comes down from the Old Irish cride and belongs to the same ancient family as the Latin cor and the Greek kardia, the roots that still give us words like cordial and cardiac. 📖 So when a crofter's wife on Skye said mo chridhe to her son, she was using a word whose ancestors were spoken thousands of years ago across half of Europe.

Gaelic is rich in words like this. A ghràidh means my love. M' eudail means my treasure. These were not grand words saved for poetry. They were everyday words, used in kitchens and fields and down on the shore, and they show us how a people spoke to those they loved.

Many families who lost their Gaelic still kept a scrap of it, often just one of these endearments, said without anyone quite remembering what it meant. A grandparent who called you mo chridhe was handing you something very old, whether they knew it or not. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Words of love are often the last words of a language to leave a family. Was there a Gaelic or Scots pet name in your family that was passed down even after the rest of the language had gone?

24/10/2026

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Tarbert
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http://www.harrisholidaylet.co.uk/

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