Not sure if it is at all related to yesterday’s Supermoon, but I have never in my life seen anything like the colours in the sky at sunset tonight. It was one of those sights that looked so amazing that photos of it don’t look quite real, but more as though someone with a rather […]
Last night there was a ‘Supermoon’ combined with a lunar eclipse – apparently this only happens every 30 years. Unfortunately the eclipse part was due to happen between 1am and 6am – so seeing it would mean getting up in the middle of the night… The Supermoon itself was up by 9:30pm, and by 10:30pm […]
One of my Mum’s friends who was also her next door neighbour just died quite suddenly. R and I had known her for many years and she always really liked this blog. So I put a few photos of Mossdale where she lived up here just to remember her happy times there. She will be […]
R and I continued our assault on the Munros today with Beinn Narnain (in the Arrochar Alps near the Cobbler). This was quite a good climb and we largely enjoyed ourselves, but unfortunately, the weather which had been forecast to be clear by lunchtime, wasn’t, so the visibility from the summit was about 10 feet. […]
We had some new friends from the village here for dinner the other night. They are interested in the local wildlife as well, and I had warned our creatures to be on their best behaviour and turn up on time. True to form, at 6:15 there were five squirrels chasing around the feeder, and by […]
I was halfway through putting clean sheets on the bed when I stepped out to talk to R for a brief moment. On my return a few seconds later, the bed had been colonized by not one but two cats, both of whom had been sleeping peacefully there for hours and were not pleased at […]
When I was a child, my family and I would go bramble picking several times around the start of autumn. Between the four of us we would gather a serious amount (I’m talking 40lb or so), but at the cost of our hands being scratched to bits. Then my dad would make bramble jelly, and […]
The wildlife in this area just goes from strength to strength. Yet another mammal added itself to the long list of ones seen locally, not by us (unfortunately), but by our neighbours over the river. This time it was a young weasel, very sweet looking in the photos, but actually for its size one of […]
We had a wonderful day for the last outing of our ‘staycation’ by climbing Beinn Cruachan and Stob Diamh. This was our first attempt at a couple of ‘big Munros’ and we were totally exhausted at the end of the day as the climb took us just over nine hours (plus an hour in each […]
R wanted the day off today, so I left him to code and nurse his sore legs from yesterday and set off to do a walk on my own which I have fancied for a while. We’ve walked the Duke’s path as far as Corran Lochan at the end of the peninsula a few times […]
