by Jhunt | Oct 29, 2015 | Club News
Dead-eye, St Kilda by Betty Tindal – found on St Kilda in 2006 A pulley really From an old sailing ship, in my hand, tactile, evocative. See where the ropes bit, smoothing and polishing the timber? Was it this that saved it from a winter fire? Here in my hands a...
by Jhunt | Oct 26, 2015 | Club News
New books on St Kilda have usually been well advertised by their publishers in recent years, so keeping up with the ever expanding literature of St Kilda is not difficult. However, avid readers of anything new on St Kilda may have missed an account by a visitor to St...
by Jhunt | Oct 22, 2015 | Club News
Following the recent correspondence sent out to all the members of the St Kilda Club, I felt I had to say a huge THANK YOU to you all! The number of people visiting the website has increased, and the number of ‘likes’ on Facebook and followers on Twitter...
by Jhunt | Aug 28, 2015 | Club News, History
At 5am this morning, HMS Harebell lowered her whaler. Ship’s log, 29/08/1930: “Embarked the inhabitants of St Kilda, 14 women, 13 men, 15 Children.” Later, “Everyone on board. Hoisted boat. 08.02 hrs Weighed. Proceeded 11.5 knots” With this laconic entry, the...
by Jhunt | Jul 3, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
Sadly, the weather did not let up on Hirta for our last days. On Sunday night we had tremendous rain and on Monday, Tuesday (and Wednesday, and Thursday), all the streams were raging torrents. When on a work party, one’s task is clearing out the many small water...
by Jhunt | Jun 30, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
Poor Donald and Work Party 3 on St Kilda are still having bad weather, here’s Donald’s latest blog, and the last from the island: Weather continues misty, light rain and with the hill tops in mist – this has gone on for 2 weeks now. The joke is playing a...
by Jhunt | Jun 28, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
Yesterday began damp and misty (as usual!). However during the morning it gradually dried up, though the cloud level remained below the top of Dun. This enabled work on painting the gun to resume (again, a holding measure to last it through the winter). Christine and...
by Jhunt | Jun 26, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
The 23rd ended with the Work Party members helping Julie to celebrate her birthday, and yesterday began with the arrival of another cruise ship. The weather unfortunately has continued to be miserable, so the 60+ poor souls who ventured ashore were on the whole not...
by Jhunt | Jun 24, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
Yesterday was another day of work, with some tasks beginning to be completed, other tasks were started. Some small wall tumbles were repaired, and work on painting the doors of the church and schoolroom continued. Each task takes several days – removing fixtures,...
by Jhunt | Jun 21, 2015 | Club News, Work Parties
Today’s update from Donald and Work Party 3 on St Kilda: At last, the weather has begun to improve! Yesterday was low cloud and rain. One of our party, Austin, a keen photographer was up at the radar at 4.15am to watch the sun rise – he saw no sun! So,...
