Author: mikkoT

Nessie hides from royal flotilla

It seems that Nessie is not a great one for all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the queen’s royal flotilla. She kept her head down today and refused to make an appearance. There are very real concerns amongst Nessie researchers that she will be greatly affected by noisy fireworks in nearby Inverness but we are not unduly concerned as once it’s all over and something like reality returns Nessie will be back! She has, after all, survived a massive meteorite strike in the Jurassic era, multiple ice ages and two world wars. She’s tough!

Loch Ness Monster sized Dinosaur Remains Discovered in Beauly

There is tremendous speculation and chatter around Loch Ness as it has been announced that the enormous skeletal remains of a carnivorous dinosaur have been found in Beauly, Ross-shire.

“Beauly is only 10 miles or so from the village of Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness and the historic discovery of a beast like this – living and hunting nearby further proves that Nessie – the world famous monster – must exist”. We know that the village is full of old dinosaurs from a bygone age that still manage to stalk about causing trouble but this takes us back millions of years into an even more dog-eat-dog jurassic world.

You can read more about this staggering discovery in The Inverness Courier.

The world’s most expensive public loo? And it’s not by Loch Ness!

by Mikko on Sun 11 Mar 2012 11:33 GMT

Is this the world’s most expensive public loo? It certainly looks like it is Scotland’s!

Britain’s most remote public toilet is under construction on the island of Handa, which is uninhabited and lies within the inner Hebrides off the northwest coast of Sutherland.

Summer on the island sees in excess of 100,000 seabirds, including puffins, guillemots and razorbills. The new WC (or “restroom” – for our American friends) will feature a turf roof, be built from steel to withstand the weather and produce organic compost. It came at a cost of £50,000 but will cater for an amazing number of visitors – 6000 make the trip there each year to see the beautiful scenery and wildlife.

Dom Joly writes about Nessie and us in today’s Independent newspaper

by Mikko on Sun 19 Feb 2012 16:02 GMT
Dom wasn’t too impressed by the rather “dull” Loch Ness monster exhibition he went to see in Drumnadrochit but he was far more excited by the modern, interesting and exciting research into Nessie the Loch Ness Monster that we do here at Nessie on the Net and the Loch Ness LiveCams.”He’s written it up in The Independent – one of the UK’s leading newspapers. Click here to read it online.”

TV comedian and writer Dom Joly visits Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster

by Mikko on Sat 18 Feb 2012 11:01 GMT

On 16th February TV comedian and writer Dom Joly paid a visit to our camera site to look for Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. He’s busy writing a new book about unknown monsters and has travelled to many different countries for his research.

We spent a fascinating morning with him and were very pleased to show off our Officially Original Loch Ness live cams, which are so popular around the world.

You can read about some of Dom’s many exploits here and see some photos from our day soon.

 

A Loch Ness Monster sized disaster

by Mikko on Sun 12 Feb 2012 18:37 GMT
The Inverness Streetscape Scheme cost £6 million and saw roads, pavements and businesses turned upside down for many long months.

Apparently having badly constructed the whole monstrosity large bits of it now need replacing just months after it was finally finished.

More here – what a calamity!
Inverness Courier

First Loch Ness smoking of the year!

by Mikko on Tue 07 Feb 2012 10:42 GMT

Yup, the weather has been so wonderful here (touch wood) that while Heathrow Airport in London is shut down by ice and snow we were able to smoke the first rainbow trout in our smoke box in the garden! That’s the earliest start in a year ever!

We’ve kept back a small portion to take down the hill and feed to Nessie, our famous Loch Ness monster.

A little poem for The Loch Ness Monster

by Mikko on Tue 18 Oct 2011 09:15 BST
Hi, a bit of bad weather is around today with the possibility of snow on high ground.

So here is a little poem to cheer you us all up:

Dillydallying

When I was a baby I dillydallied in my pram.

In the nursery I discovered other children and we all dillydallied together.

When I was a big boy I went to school and dillydallied even more and later I went to college where some structure was brought to my dillydallying.

And so the years flowed by and I found myself a job where I made money dillydallying.

Now I am retired and I no longer dillydally; these days I just potter.

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