Today is nice and sunny and R and I have been having an explore of the area. First we went to the Galloway Wildlife Park. We’ve been many times and how many actual animals you see is variable. Today was not a good day for them because a) there is loads and loads of vegetation […]
Well not proper south – south Scotland. My parents live in Dumfries and Galloway near Castle Douglas. It is a beautiful and unspoilt part of the world; not as ‘drop dead in your face gorgeous’ as the Highlands, but lovely rolling countryside with deserted lochs and low forested hills. In fact it always reminds me […]
The garden isn’t quite as colourful now as it was back in May/June. In particular it is missing the wow factor of the primulas which were out in force for more than three months but are past now. We still have some nice ones in July though – the hydrangeas are looking lovely, as is […]
Another beautiful morning and our friend the heron (or at least a similar looking heron) is back on the pond. Interestingly – I read somewhere that frogs are not much seen between the breeding season (which here in Argyll was in March) and late July when they re-emerge (not sure why this is). I had […]
There’s lots of activities on the water and in the village as a whole at the moment. I was recently asked to be on the committee for the local paper (“The Wee Goil”) and on my way to the monthly meeting on Tuesday, I think I saw more people than in the whole of Jan […]
Well cherries and other mixed produce. I’m picking a bowl of mixed edibles most days now. Today I got strawberries (the last of these now I think), raspberries, beans, potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes and quite a lot of cherries. For some reason the birds seem to have given up on them now and we are getting […]
I just tried an experiment with both cats (don’t worry – nothing nasty). Very early this year I started off a propagator’s worth of catnip. It is now ‘ready’ and is probably opening me up to suspicion of cultivating illegal substances because I can’t open the propagator up without exposing it to the cats! It […]
I’ve rarely if ever seen anything quite as beautiful as Lochgoilhead today. The weather was perfect and I walked out along the loch side to get some provisions for a surprise barbeque to share with R. The pictures speak for themselves, but the weather was perfect, the Loch was blue and dotted with little yachts. […]
Good wildlife week here. The day before yesterday we saw our first otter in Loch Goil. Unfortunately it was too fast to get a photo. We’ve also seen quite a few seals there – mostly over on the Carrick side. We also saw the first lizard I have seen in Scotland out on the path […]
When I was a little girl in 1970s most eggs were white. You got the occasional brown one, and the common belief at the time was that the brown ones were ‘more natural’ and had a better flavour. So of course what happened was that farmers caught on to this and adjusted the hens’ food […]
