This week we launch our new occasional column from the Edge of the World – or more correctly the Western Isles or the Outer Hebrides!
Cath MacDonald is a well-known figure on Harris – she began her working life as a teacher, working in the islands and Inverness.
She taught Gaelic in Lochaber schools while based in Fort William and afterwards had a spell in Colombia running the school for the children of the British managers at textile firm J&P Coats.