The weather on Skye from October right through to March has been pretty awful, not much snow has fallen, nor did we get the settled mid winter spell either. Instead it was rain and wind all he way. The locals had said to me it was the worse winter for 20 years maybe more and some of these locals have leved in Skye for 50 years and more!
And now that we have moved?
Last week was amazing, we are only a few miles from those record breaking areas, and even today ot was lovely just to wander
It is funny, even with all the computer models in the world, satillites and other advanced technology that we have at our fingertips. I always seem to know instinctively when the weather is going to change. Maybe its the way the geese fly in a rather unsettled pattern as if disturbed by the colder weather. Perhaps it was the extreme of warm weather just one week ago, where temps soared to 23C with unbroken sunshine. Perhaps it was even the slight niggly ache I get in my wrists and ankle joints.
Im a highland lass, used to the challenges and rigours of highland life. Used to the fact that some summers are just rubbish and it looks like a rubbish spring has just given waty to an equally rubbish autumn. You cant see the green foliage on the trees because of low cloud and rain, so you have no clues that summer has arrived at all! However just a little less often like 1 in every 5 to 7 years we get something special, with very long hot and warm summers, 1995, 2003 and 2006 being the ones I
