Hi from Skye

[Redron]

I get a jealousy hit every time I read about people living on Skye, Harris, Lewis etc. Maybe I should contact an estate agent!

Just do it clibit, you know it makes sense.

Just ignore the fact I have been barely able to set foot outdoors for the past week due to the 70mph horizontal rain, I swear the dog has put on half a stone !
I'm off to Sri Lanka for a couple of weeks in Jan to escape the weather, they have 9% beer and eat curry for breakfast, dinner and tea, bit like where I came from in West Yorks :lol:

 

[clibit]

I could handle Skye in the summer and Sri Lanka in the winter!

Should've chased the money these last 35 years!

 

[Hoppyland]

Hi Redron & thanks for the welcome!
I hadn't expected anyone else from Skye to be on the forum, so good news!
Our plot is in Glen Eynort, and by luck we're living there as well, renting one of the wooden forestry houses. Still in the planning stage at present. Hopefully the main build will be done by the kit suppliers, Norscot. Also, we will have a neighbour who is a roofer & has some contacts. He seems a great bloke and, since we will have shared maintenance of the access road and water supply, a good reason to be helpful in an in-kind way. As would we, of course!
I'd seen the place in Inverness but hadn't got there yet. At present, I get most of my stuff delivered from The Malt Miller. For a 30kg order (mainly malt fairly obviously!) they charged ��£11.00 delivery, which I thought was fantastic (bridge or no bridge!!). And really quick, too. I'm about to check out Geterbrewed in N Ireland, after a recent post on the forum, to see what they say about delivery to Skye

Super place, Torrin, (but as you say aren't they all!). We quite often walk our dog from there. Eynort is quieter, though!
All the best
Bill

 

[Hoppyland]

Just ignore the fact I have been barely able to set foot outdoors for the past week due to the 70mph horizontal rain, I swear the dog has put on half a stone

Come on, don't exaggerate - it's only been like that for a bit.....er, some.....well, OK then, slightly most of the time.
Don't let your dog put on a stone though. Instead, do what we do and chain it to a stone. Just make sure it's a large one......:smile:

 

[Redron]

Hi Bill, only ever been down Glen Eynort once, we actually looked at one of the wooden forestry houses that was for sale eight years ago. Spent a fair bit of time around Carbost and Portnalong, I used to ride my bike up from west Yorks and stay in the bunkhouse at Portnalong whilst I looked for a house to buy. Had one or two very wild nights in the Old Inn at Carbost watching 'the Bramax' play (ask around, they are well known and very funny and talented, the fiddler also plays with the Peat Bog Faeries, Farquar I think his name is).
I do BIAB brewing and get my AG kits from Worcester hop shop, very reasonably priced kits and five kits gets me just under the magic 30kg postal weight , costs me 15 quid for delivery. I got my big pan and other stuff from Rob at The Malt Miller, very helpful guy, I may try him when I move onto making up my own brews and need bulk grain. ManseMasher enquired for me at geterbewed but I'm pretty sure they won't deliver to Skye.
If you are out and about try the Stein inn at Waternish, they have a good
selection of beer, a rare thing on Skye, good food too....

Having built the extension, I now spend my time walking, fishing for trout ,salmon and sea fish and then smoking them, that's in between brewing beer of course.... Sorry Clibit , that must be scratching your jealous itch again .

Regards , Ian

 

[Hoppyland]

I now spend my time walking, fishing for trout ,salmon and sea fish and then smoking them

Gosh, that sounds like a hard life. No wonder you need the beer to keep you going! :lol:
Thanks for the advice. Haven't been in the Old Inn for a little while, but we've really enjoyed the live music there. We've passed the Stein Inn & it's on our "to do" list, so good to know the food is recommended (incidentally, we did like the Pie Cafe up towards Staffin).
Just contacted Geterbrewed - I think they said they use Parcelforce, but anyway they do deliver to Skye. It's ��£20.35 for up to 27kg - a bit pricier than Malt Miller's courier, but I might check it out . I brew AG, mainly to my own recipes, so their bespoke malt service might be worth a dabble (thanks for the info Clibit, & the warning not to balls-up the order!)