Rhoda Meek

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Rhoda Meek is a digital consultant and entrepreneur from the Isle of Tiree. Rhoda runs a croft, as well as Tiree Tea and Isle Develop CIC, . A native Gaelic speaker, Rhoda is passionate about Highland and Island culture, crofting and community.

Rhoda Meek is a digital consultant and entrepreneur from the Isle of Tiree. Rhoda runs a croft, as well as Tiree Tea and Isle Develop CIC, . A native Gaelic speaker, Rhoda is passionate about Highland and Island culture, crofting and community.

Latest articles from Rhoda Meek

The post office on the isle of Tiree, off the west coast of Scotland

comment Rhoda Meek: Delivery inequity is an unaddressed issue for Scotland's islands
I WOULDN’T wish running a packaged goods business or Etsy-style marketplace on anyone – especially not from an island. Yet here I am, doing both

King Charles arrives for an International Sustainability reception at Buckingham Palace in London

comment Rhoda Meek: Doffing the cap, releasing the tups and the power of oligarchs

IT has been quite the week for powerful males.

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If you never see an otter again without thinking about a septic tank and a goose burger, then my work here is done

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Gooseburgers, otters and a perfect septic tank starter

I RECENTLY discovered a Pinterest board for “Goose Lovers” and had to pour myself almost as stiff a drink as the day I discovered an Etsy shop selling dungarees to hold nappies in place for your “house duck” ...

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Vehicles board the CalMac ferry MV Bute at Wemyss Bay for Rothesay

COMMENT Is the Scottish Government committed to keeping the lights on in our islands?

WITH the impending forecast resulting in severe weather warnings, and the end of the October holidays nigh, it’s time for the lights to go off around our island shores. The ferry queue to get away before reality struck this weekend was quite the sight...

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Rhoda Meek opens up about living with bipolar disorder

comment Rhoda Meek: When mental health services fail it turns out it’s not 'OK to not be OK'

ONE in three people are estimated to be affected by mental health problems in Scotland in any given year. I am one of them. I was once ashamed of that. Today, my recovery journey is something I look at with pride ...

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Rewilding may be admirable but it's not always beneficial for communities, writes Rhoda Meek

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Worthy aims of rewilding are in need of some honest recalibration

REWILDING is one of those unhelpfully nebulous words. It hovers on the edge of understanding, with a complete explanation and precise definition just tantalisingly out of reach. If recent developments are to be believed, making serious money from it is just as tantalisingly out of reach.

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I promised myself that I wouldn't write about Gaelic again for a while, until Andrew Marr opened his mouth and spouted forth

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: Andrew Marr's anti-Gaelic error invokes the usual 'strawman' arguments

I PROMISED myself that I wouldn’t write about Gaelic again for a while. Then Andrew Marr opened his mouth and spouted forth, and now I have no choice ...

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The Isle of Tiree

comment Rhoda Meek: History of much of the Hebrides is played out in one Tiree township

I AM not an academic, but I do come from a family of them. My mother, father and sister sport no fewer than 12 degrees and diplomas between them. I like to joke that while they have more letters after their names than most of us have in our names, none of them are blessed with the ability to instinctively work a washing machine ...

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Gaelic speakers should be able to exist without constant translations into English, writes Rhoda Meek

COMMENT Rhoda Meek: When it comes to Gaelic, native speakers should come first

ONE of the never-endingly frustrating things about being a native Gaelic speaker is the automatic assumption that your entire raison d’être is to save the language.

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A lone piper leads the islanders of Eigg off to celebrations after the ceremony to unveil a plaque commemorating the historic purchase of the island by its residents

COMMENT It’s flat out or flat on your back for essential local development trusts

SOMEONE said to me this week that, “In Tiree, you are either flat out, or you are a retired millionaire – there is no in-between”...

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