Month: March 2012

by Mikko on Sat 22 Oct 2011 08:39 BST

Well folks, were having an unexpected hot blast of weather here at Loch Ness. Yesterday the temperature in Inverness was a balmy 12 degrees centigrade around Loch Ness and the same is expected today. Snow was seem down to about two metres above sea level earlier last week so with heating fuel prices at a record high it is great to see the back of the cold weather – at least for awhile.

Some exciting travel data you may want to add to your knowledge:

Stagecoach Group is to trial the UK’s first budget sleeper coach service between Glasgow and London. It’s an extremely exciting development and adds a great new and comfortable dimension to visitors to Inverness and those in seek of its famous Loch Ness Monster, Nessie. The articulated buses offer you a seat and proper sleeping birth, toilet, free wi-fi, on-board refreshments and a complimentary overnight pack containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, a bottle of water, an eye mask and a luggage label.

Prices range from £1 – £40 single and the service travels every night. So, you could, for example, fly to London and take the sleeper bus to Glasgow example and take a relaxing overnight bus to Glasgow and arrive there bright and early. You could come straight to Inverness or spend a day in Glasgow first and travel here later. The Glasgow to Inverness Megabus service takes approximately three hours and, once prices start from £1 each way.

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.

As with all material in this website, its copyright of your web master, Mikko 2011.

by Mikko on Sat 15 Oct 2011 13:39 BST

Thanks for all the excellent feedback on the new National Geographic TV Program.

It was a delight to work with their production team based at Aldourie Castle and to help to make their excellent TV program about Nessie and Loch Ness.

The program is highly informative and puts a postive spin on the monster and avoids the “sad old” bearded debunker men image that has unfortunately surrounded Loch Ness for far too long.

Here at Nessie on the Net we have seen the Loch Ness monster ourselves and even passed a lie detector test administered by a UK government Home Office expert – televised for the Nat Geo documentary.

by Mikko on Sun 25 Sep 2011 08:48 BST

Our good friend, Kevin Carlyon – High Priest of British White Witches also blessed our Officially Original Loch Ness Webcams.

Good to see you Kevin!

by Mikko on Sun 29 Aug 2010 10:55 BST

Cryptozoologist, Professor Kettle, has spent a lifetime searching for elusive creatures – all previously unknown to science. From the Abominable Snowman to the Coelacanth he has travelled across the globe in an endless quest, which some less than generous souls have dubbed “his silly and stupid obsession”. However, the professor is very blasé about his critics:

“they fall into two broad camps”, he said. “Firstly, the bone idle ones who can’t be bothered to get out of a chair to do anything themselves. Secondly, the envious types who resent my unrivalled success tracking down evidence of cryptids – or “unknown creatures – as the layman would call them.

Personally I consider myself a touch eccentric and quite frankly what other people think of me is their problem”.

At this point in our conversation the professor said he would like to introduce another member of his research team, Dr. Pott. It turns out that Pott’s doctorate is in Applied Mathematical Environmental Research and he designs most of the unique and intricate pieces of equipment used to track down the unknown. “He isn’t exactly Scully from the X-Files in looks but he does a really good job” quips Kettle.

Dr. Pott offers us tea and I start to tremble with anticipation. It’s common knowledge within academe that if Professor Kettle respects your work then tea will be served in his unique Nessie shaped tea pot. If he thinks you are mediocre it comes as a tea bag in a mug; the whole thing is a kind of semaphore signal of success or failure.

Well, the door creaked open and a decrepit and wisend old lady brought through the tea tray. And there it was! The real, unique Kettle owned Loch Ness Monster tea pot. I felt pure elation, such that I nearly collapsed. Bizarrely all I could think of was the TV series “The Sopranos” and that this is how it must feel to be made a “made man” by the mafia.

“So this is the genuine Kettle’s tea pot?” was all I managed to stutter; I was too awestruck to say more. “Actually no”, said Professor Kettle. “Dr. Pott originally pointed it out to me in an antiques shop in Forres and I bought it on the spot. But he saw it first so around here it is known as Pott’s pot.”

No matter. I knew that whether it was Kettle’s pot or Pott’s pot I had received the scientific equivalent of a beatification and now I knew that my own academic papers would always be published in the best journals and one day I would stroll before a camera for the National Geographic Channel.