Fiona Doyle

05/10/2023

12/09/2023

12/09/2023

Warrington gets everything 😳

21/06/2023

Might be a bit spicy 😂

15/06/2023

Every household is being urged to leave a source of drinking water outside of their house, either in the garden or on your driveway.

It is hoped that the supply of drinking water might help keep foxes, hedgehogs, birds and even bees and wasps hydrated in the hot weather ❤

15/06/2023

06/06/2023

UPDATE….thank you, we have a fosterer secured 💖💖💖

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CAN YOU HELP?

This little 4 to 5 month old collie cross baby is due to be put to sleep because there is simple A DOG CRISES IN IRELAND 💔🤬

We will pass your details on if you are serious about helping her and giving her a life line 💔💔

please email [email protected]

04/06/2023

Absolutely cracking picture captured by Rabbie's driver guide Billy Muir. Perfect timing with Iona Abbey in the background.

19/05/2023

B.Mundell Ltd took this picture on the Isle of Arran yesterday 18/05/23 departing Islay. As you can see it clearly shows the amount of deck space that is not being used due to the vessel being fully freighted (maxed out on weight limit before meterage is met).

In the 70's 80's & 90's, despite our equipment being many years older and the ferry ports being 1/3rd of the size with poorer infrastructure, The Isle of Arran sailed fully freighted with this space utilised. The vessel ran the same timetable with the same turnaround times, on the same route but carried an additional 14-20 additional cars or an additional unladen 17M CV.

With all the improvements that have been made to ports, equipment and safe working practices, why is CalMac Ferries refusing to reinstate a dropped trailer service on the Isle of Arran immediately using the same safe operating procedures that both CalMac & B.Mundell Ltd operated on this mirror service in the 90’s? With a stellar safety record!

When we see the departure of the MV Finlaggan in a couple of weeks’ time, and the ferry capacity once again being significantly compromised. The ferry operator could free up space for an additional 350 car spaces per week or 25 additional unladen 17CV’s on the service by reverting to a dropped trailer procedure on the Isle of Arran vessel.

B.Mundell Ltd and the Island community are struggling to understand why CalMac will not re-instate a tried and proven, safe method of moving CV’s on the Islay route using the Isle of Arran.

The mission statement of CalMac states,

• Achieving added value within the contract specification for communities, businesses, tourism, our employees and for the taxpayer
• Improving value for the investment made.
• Achieve further service and safety improvement, operational efficiencies and cost savings.
• Lower emission fuels.
• CalMac is geared to respond effectively to day-to-day issues
• CalMac's role goes way beyond simply transporting people by sea for holidays and short breaks. We recognise its critical importance in achieving Scottish Government objectives, benefiting communities, boosting local and tourism businesses while growing our business. More visitors mean more spend in shops and restaurants. Increased ferry traffic also leads to greater investment in island infrastructure which helps everyone.

The question B.Mundell Ltd poses to CalMac to answer is:

“Can CalMac justify by not reinstating dropped trailers on the Isle of Arran vessel they are responding effectively to a day-to-day issue, adding & improving value on the service to boost local & tourism business via operational efficiencies and cost savings that helps everyone on the island by not re-instating the dropped trailer service?”

Written by Matthew Mundell

17/05/2023

Walking through my son's schoolyard, I notice a bench painted bright red. I asked my son, "Is that the only place to sit around here?" He said, "No, that's the buddy bench. When someone feels lonely or they have nobody to play with, they sit there and kids ask them to play." WOW. AMAZING. I then told him how wonderful that was and asked him if he ever used it. He said, "Yeah. When I was new I sat there and someone came and asked me to play. I felt happy. And now, when I see kids on it, I ask them to play with me. We all do."

08/05/2023

This photo of a full English breakfast at the Alton Towers Hotel has gone viral... wow 😬