JA Gillies

@LorneOban @CalumRaasay Wow a blast from the past. Remember your Dad showing me the photo hanging in his hall.

@CalumRaasay It is great to read of your plans for repairs to the boathouse. Photo below taken in c.1995/96 at the handover of ownership from HIE to Raasay Marine Association with your dad, me and Angus MacLean.

Our beautiful old victorian boathouse! There's rarely a wedding, birthday party or ceilidh that doesn't end with a big party and bonfire down here. But the old roof is in need of repair. Can you spare a few quid for a donation? Then join us for a ceilidh there to celebrate maybe!

Can’t quite believe this. The kids at the island primary school were doing a beach clean and found a message in a bottle. From me. From 25 years ago!!

My dear old seanair would have been 97 today. Born on Fladda, a tidal island just off Raasay, he grew up in a world simply unrecognisable to us today. A remarkable man, he built the home we’re raising our wee baby in until ours is ready. A portrait I got of him a few years ago.

@CalumRaasay Raasay Bams.

Local trouble makers caught in my garden again stealing. What has this country come to?

@JonnyJobson @CalumRaasay Miss Marley. Same owner as Spanish John. Only few months old.

@CalumRaasay Pretty certain its her but not on AIS usually. Good lads on that

Usual ferry is off to dry dock, so we have the 'old' ferry back! A loch class that now looks comically small for Raasay. You can also see the extra landing craft Calmac have chartered to carry the overflow. Really shows how much busier the island has gotten in the last decade!

@LorneOban @CalumRaasay Hopefully catch you next time. Yes retirement suiting me just fine thanks 👍

@jagraas @CalumRaasay Will be back! I hope you're enjoying your retirement.

One less on the bucket list! A cycle along Rathad Chaluim on the island of Raasay today. An amazing road built by one determined and principled man. Great to be back in Raasay, the island where my MacLeod forebears came from. #Ratharsair

My latest video is the longest video I've ever made - and one of the most complex! It's about one of the most tragic and unusual arctic expeditions - an attempt to reach the North Pole by means of hydrogen balloon. It was a disaster.👇

After 42 odd years, the old man @jagraas finally hangs up the keys to Calmac ferries 🫡 If you’ve ever travelled on one of the big calmac boats these last few decades, there’s a fair chance he was skipper! ⛴️

Beautiful green fields of Oscaig ☀️

@CalumRaasay Hope you numbered them 😂

Cement down the loose steps, 5 minute job I said to myself

@moselbucket99 @CalumRaasay

@CalumRaasay Wonderful photo. Should be a poster. Love the content and spring colours. Model & dog What's it like in black & white?

We’ve had more dinners outside this last month than we probably did all last year!

@CalumRaasay Living the dream

@CalumRaasay @CalMacFerries

Daisy waving off the ferry. Hard to believe it’s still February with all this sunshine!

@CalumRaasay Looks like your saw motor is overheating 🥵 🤣

Current cargo looking like the precursor to a final-destination style disaster

@CalumRaasay Lovely here in Alness too 😎

Another frosty, beautiful morning! This must be one of the best February’s that I can remember.

@_QuickFang @CalumRaasay The house I grew up in had it too 😂

@CalumRaasay The house I grew up in had it

We’re moving into my grandfathers old house as we build our house! Reflooring and painting this to make a bedroom. Found an interesting design on the original floorboards

@CalumRaasay And Hebridean Isles awaiting her fate 😔

Goodbye Glasgow! Had a cool view of the new warships being built on the Clyde as we flew out 💪

Anybody who thinks the world isn’t messed up should take a look at this bill for a range of eye-wateringly expensive whiskeys, purchased at the Fife Arms in Braemar on the night before Hogmanay. Wonder what they bought to usher in the New Year! Thanks to ⁦@Ian_Fraser⁩

Frozen Raasay, where mugs of tea and a big roaring fire is an absolute necessity.