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It has been just over two weeks since we moved to Skye. For the first two days the sun was out and it was beautiful, I could even see the Cullins. Yet our gentle induction was over just after that wind wind, rain, sleet, snow and hail bombarding us most days.

Dont get me wrong, Im a Native Highlander, who has lived in the remotest parts of Sutherland since a small child, so Im used to the weather, thankfully.... remember those questions children ask, do we shrink in the bath if we stay in it too long? Well Ive tested this question, having spent many a day getting soaked to the skin, even in good old crofters oilskins, luckly we dont.

Yet even given the testing weather, spring is beginning to show, the daffodils are out and the trees are about to show the first signs of leaf and the birds are singing every morning.. the grass is always greener on skye, it has started to grow already.

Skye is always how I imagined it to be, beautiful, desolate and untamed. Yet around me is a strong family community. The family has made new friends and we went to two chieldhs last weekend... strip the willow for me folks. Skye is truelly how the all of the highlands used to be...long may it last.

Sometimes when I look out over the sea, I have to pinch myself as I take in the beauty and isolation. Its when you look around you and you cannot see another soul and the land is yours. The Cullins are (still) up for sale, but the truth is they are so precious that no money can ever buy them, for everyone who is touched by there magic feel just as I do as I stand on the shore defying the cold wind that tries to chill my warming, happy heart.

Sometimes, just like in Hope Later's post, I take some time out to reflect where I have come from, what has happened and of the joy, vitality and happiness that seems to ebb through my body. I too walked away from what was making me unhappy (relationship), got on with my life, went to work, came home from work, got the children ready for bed and then read a book before my own. That was my life, not a bad life, but not the one that I had so long yearned for.

Sometimes you have to let the control go and just go with the flow. I met someone else and suddenly I felt everything. Skye is where I fell in love, where I live, where we will marry, where we will spend all of our happy times and in many years time, where my thoughts will be laid to rest forever.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that this isnt just heaven, this is home.

Today I needed to go to the post office. No big deal... right? Well it becomes more difficult when, you dont drive, you need to be back at a reasonable time for a telephone appointment and you have a young child in tow. The nearest PO is just 1/2 a mile away, the next one nearly 4 miles away. Fortunately I got the closer of the two and all was well.

I was met with a barrage of cars, lots of people and of course the lovely lady who runs our PO. There was filming going for for a Gaelic 91热爆 programme about the PO, so after waiting a few minutes while they filmed, I was invited into the building. Yet as I did so, I was greeted by the sorry sad state of the building, or the bare shelves and nearly empty fridge, but by the thought of so many years of people saying hello. where children ran about and of course where the Highland "wifies" caught up on all of the juicy ( sorry meant community) gossip. I guess I felt what can be best described as the spirit of the community ghost!

I bought a pint of milk....which I really needed, and the paper and dealt with my letter, while they were filming what was happening, and yes when the camera was pointed at me, I did blush and smile...!!

Now Imagine if that closest PO was no longer there? It is stark reality that we are losing our local PO as it is one of them earmarked for closure in April. A sad reality that soon a PO open for nearly 30 years will close its door for a final time so very soon.

Profit before service, yet another sign of things to come. We can blame it on many things, the internet being the obvious one. It is another sign of what fels like another highland clearnce, brought on by the drive of a consumerist, profit driven society,... yet again. Young families are moving into the area, so thankfully our school will stay open.... but for how long, we are talking here another 15 years here and that school roll will drop and they will build a more central primary school.

So since moving here it is the first and sadly probably the last time I will say hello in the local PO. Now I have an 8 mile journey ahead of me if I need the service. Happy Days!!!

Then again life goes in circles doesnt it and what comes around goes around.