Love Gaelic is an independent, unfunded Gaelic education platform. During Ann’s cancer treatment, it relies on community support to remain fully operational and continue its work for the language. Tweederick — the North Uist fairy — has stepped into the role of Temporary Director, watching over the stories and guiding continuity. Even a small subscription helps keep Gaelic learning alive, online and in the heart of the North Uist community. If you care about its future, please take a moment to see how you can help.
The Tweederick Love Gaelic Continuity Fund
While treatment requires Ann to step back partially and temporarily, Love Gaelic will not close its doors. Tweederick and his team of Fairies (Love Gaelic students) has taken responsibility for carrying the lantern.
A small act of support now safeguards an independent Gaelic platform built over years,
so it remains here long after this temporary treatment period has passed.
How You Can Help Love Gaelic
Listening and Reading Practice for Learners
His downloadable audio & transcript subscription is the simplest and most direct way to help the coming months.
It keeps 52 Gaelic stories, resources, and learning materials available while Ann focuses on treatment and recovery.
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Access to a growing audio library over time, so far we have:
1. Tweederick agus an Geata Cam
2. Tweederick agus am Bùth Beag
3. Tweederick agus an Còmhradh gun Crìoch
4. Tweederick agus an Seòmar Trang
5. Tweederick agus a' Cheist Mhòr
6. Tweederick agus na Gàirdeanan Paisgte
7. Tweederick agus an Ceum Beag Air Ais
8. Tweederick agus na Guthan Àrda
9. Tweederick agus an Cromadh-Cinn
10. Tweederick agus Aon Rud Eile
11. Tweederick agus an Turas Garbh
12. Tweederick agus an Rud a Chaidh Ceàrr
13. Tweederick agus an Soidhne
14. Tweederick agus an Cafaidh
15. Tweederick agus am Polchar coming up on 09/04/26
16. Tweederick agus na Sgonaichean coming up on 16/04/26
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A listening practice and communication tips that support real conversation
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A special bonus gift each month that isn’t available to email subscribers. (These bonuses will be removed at the end of 2026, so subscribe now if you'd like to get these)
So far, these sonsists of:
January - 5 Bilingual (Gaelic - English) Magazines with stories (island / students etc.) and fun exercises
February - Xiaomanyc Phonetic Learning Workbook
March - Tweederick's Little Gaelic Island Poems from the Hebrides Booklet
April - December .... be suprised!
For more info on The Tweederick Bilingual Story Collection, click here.
Help Tweederick spread the word! You can paste this:
"While our Love Gaelic Founder and Director Ann undergoes cancer treatment, Love Gaelic needs community support to remain fully operational. Tweederick — the North Uist fairy — has stepped into the role of Temporary Director, guarding the lantern, watching over the stories, and ensuring the language continues to flow. Even a small subscription helps keep Gaelic alive, both online and within the North Uist community. If the future of the language matters to you, please take a moment to see how you can help."
If you were thinking of sending well wishes, purchasing a Love Gaelic book or resource is a practical way to help keep the platform running.
Other Ways to Help
If you would like to send a message of encouragement, you are warmly welcome to email us at info@lovegaidhlig.com and we will pass them on.
For those who prefer to send a physical token of support, please email us for postal details.
Have practical suggestions that support the continuity of Love Gaelic? We’d be glad to hear from you.
We welcome conversation with Gaelic agencies and cultural partners who wish to support the continuity of Love Gaelic during this period of cancer treatment.
Adopt one of our Lambs!
(àm breith nan uan - lambing time)
We are expecting 40 lambs around 12/04/26
17 singles, 10 twins, 1 triplet (below - born 01/04/26)
1. Tweederick welcomes our first-born, Swarnava.
2. Tweederick welcomes Swarnava's sister, Mìlse.
Tapadh leibh!
Some Love Gaelic students have provided us with knitted jumpers to keep the lambs warm over the years.
3. Tweederick welcomes Swarnava's second sister, Sorcha.
7. Tweederick says hi to Lìosa and her mum.
8. Tweederick says hi to Mear.
4. Tweederick says hi to Peadar.
5. Tweederick says hi to Scumble.
Quite a few lambs were born through the night 10 - 11/04. We'll name them once they had a rest.
1. First-born of the triplet is a boy (black nose) named 'Swarnava' (notified)
2. Ann H. 's lamb - one of Swarnava's sisters (dark patch above left eye) is named 'Mìlse' (notified)
3. Stuart P. 's lamb - Swarnava's other sister (small black patches on nose, head and left back) is named 'Sorcha' (notified)
4. Peter K. 's lamb - black-face lamb ' Peadar' (notified)
5. Eileen R. 's lamb - cheviot lamb 'Scumble' (notified)
6. Dirk D. N. 's lamb - awaiting the birth of 'Jefke'
7. Angela P. 's lamb - the 3rd female lamb born is 'Lìosa' (notified)
8. Brian N. 's lamb - the first black-face female amb to be born is 'Mear' (notified)
9. Stuart P. 's lamb - awaiting the birth of 'Cora' or 'Bailey'
10. could be yours ..........
Your support today safeguards years of work and keeps the door to Love Gaelic open for tomorrow.
Airson a’ chòrr den bhliadhna, ’s e mo dhleastanas a th’ ann Love Gàidhlig a chumail beò. An-seo, eadar a’ mhuir agus na h-achaidhean, chan e dìreach gnìomhachas a th’ ann an Love Gàidhlig, ach solas beag a tha a’ ceangal dhaoine bho air feadh an t-saoghail ris a’ chànan, ris na sgeulachdan agus ri dualchas ar n-eileanan. Le beagan cuideachaidh bhuaibhse, cumaidh sinn an solas sin a’ losgadh agus an doras fosgailte do luchd-ionnsachaidh faisg is fada. Ma tha a’ Ghàidhlig nad chridhe, cuidichibh sinn ga giùlan air adhart gu làithean nas soilleire.
For the remainder of the year, I it is my duty to keep Love Gaelic alive. Here, between the sea and the fields, Love Gaelic is not just a business, but a small light that connects people from around the world to the language, to the stories and to the heritage of our islands. With a little help from you, we will keep that light burning and the door open to learners near and far. If Gaelic is in your heart, help us carry it forward to brighter days.
Tweederick
Absolutely loving the adventures of Tweederick, the cheeky, wee Uist fairy. Each story is in Gaelic with English translation and accompanying audio file. They are weekly so you will have 52 in total! Plenty to keep you going as you can go over them again and again and really connect with the flow of the Gaelic through the audio file. Tweederick is a great character who adds enjoyment to each story. There are also books available with longer stories about his island exploits.
Tracie Fern
I love the Tweederick stories - regular bite-size reminders to keep my learning going even when things get busy. They sit alongside An Litir Bheag in my learning diary and that's high praise indeed.
Jude Reid
Tweederick is a lovely addition to my opportunities to practice reading and listening through charming stories that also contain useful communication tips. Tweederick is a charming character – part imp, part wry wisdom. The ability to repeat the audio as often as you need is very helpful to growing listening skills, in my experience listening once is never enough. The cost for 52 stories and audio files is very reasonable for the quality and extent of the content.
Joanne Wakelin
When I began to learn Gaelic, I found it all so difficult; the vocabulary....would I ever learn these words? The spelling....oh
why on earth would anyone devise spellings like these: lenition, slenderisation, dative, vocative, genitive.....my brain will never cope!! But of course, things began to take shape. Maybe my memory is not quite as bad as I thought. And so it went on and my enjoyment of this lyrical language increased. I wanted to read more....poems and prose. I wanted to talk to others more...(not easy where I live) After completing the Ulpan course (all 144!) I continued with Ann's courses on language and culture. These are great! And now a little bonus has appeared in the form of a very mischievous Tweederick. These short stories provide fascinating insights into aspects of language which we all use (in our home language) but forget as we struggle and progress in our Gaelic learning. They're fun and manageable.....easy to pick up for a few minutes.....inexpensive and everything you need is there....transcripts, audio files, delightful illustrations and animation. Subscribe to Tweederick ........................ and ENJOY!
Eileen Robinson
For Students Who Want to Do More
If Love Gaelic has made a difference to your learning, one powerful way to help is by raising awareness within the Gaelic community. Love Gaelic is an independent, unfunded education platform. During cancer treatment, continuity depends on visible community support. If you feel strongly about protecting independent Gaelic education, you may wish to contact relevant Gaelic organisations, to highlight the importance of sustaining Love Gaelic during this period. Thoughtful, respectful communication from learners carries weight.
You can use this template:
Dear [Organisation Name],
I am writing as a learner with Love Gaelic, an independent and unfunded Gaelic education platform based in North Uist.
Love Gaelic has played an important role in supporting my learning and engagement with the language. During Ann Desseyn’s cancer treatment, the platform is continuing its work but relies directly on community support to remain operational.
I wanted to raise awareness of the value of this independent contribution to Gaelic education and to ask whether there may be any mechanisms through which continuity support could be considered during this period.
Thank you for your ongoing work in supporting Gaelic.
Kind regards,
[Name]
