We woke up this morning to see that the first real snow of the year had fallen overnight – we probably only have about 2cm here at ‘Loch level’ but the hills are very white. Yesterday was one of those days where everything seemed to go awry. First we lost our ADSL connection because the […]
I put my Christmas Tree up yesterday with a thunderstorm raging in the background – very bizarre. I confused my Mum into thinking I was super organized with the picture of the tree on the blog last week – that was last year’s tree which had a gold theme – this year it is silver. […]
More storms. Right now it is hail accompanied by thunder and lightning. The ground outside looks snowy in the picture – but it is in fact a layer of hail so thick that it is lying on the ground in drifts. R and I braved walking down to the front at high tide to see […]
Don’t think I have seen rain like today in a very long time (if ever). Not the snow that MSN has been forecasting for ‘tomorrow’ every day for the last week – just high winds and absolutely torrential downpours. Luckily I got our shopping in in Dunoon this morning because this is classic weather for […]
Back in the distant days of summer, R and I promised that we would faithfully go for a walk every day in the winter – even if the weather was foul. Reason being that last winter we put on an alarming amount of weight through lack of exercise (and to be honest – overeating!). This […]
As I have mentioned before, my sister-in-law, V recently became a vegan. So this is the first Christmas I have had to try making some vegan meals. I’m making things I can freeze in advance, because on the day itself I have my hands full with the turkey. So today I made stuffed peppers. Take […]
I made a Lochgoilhead Advent calendar in PowerPoint. Free to download for any one interested….. Click here to download – advent
Over the last few days we have had some new visitors – a female roe deer and her nearly grown fawn. We’ve had red deer in the garden many times, but I think these are our first roes, and they are very beautiful. Yesterday afternoon they were grazing on the back lawn (they seem to […]
There were some amazing views out over the mountains as the sun went down this afternoon. I can’t make my mind up which season this area looks best in – every one of them is beautiful in its own way. Before we moved here, R and I discussed whether it would be possible to get […]
Christmas seems to have crept up on us a bit this year – probably because work has been so busy. I’ve now managed to get most of my presents, though as usual I am struggling with getting something for R. He denies he is a difficult person to buy for – but the trouble with […]
