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Apr 1st, 2023

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Solar in March

As the days lengthen, the solar is producing more and more. We are now starting to produce from around 7am (very small amounts) pushing up to either full production of about 12.5KW if it is sunny, to around 8KW if overcast during peak hours of around 11am to 5pm. Production then continues until about 6:30pm […]

Mar 31st, 2023

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Marten marking his territory

A huge male marten seems to have been marking his territory – no wonder the cats get all excited and sniff that stone (which is where we put the nuts).

Mar 26th, 2023

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Made a new friend today

A few weeks ago, R and I saw a fluffy tabby cat intently hunting something in the field behind the Scout centre. I made the usual “Here kitty, kitty noises” and it gave me a look of extreme contempt and ran off. Today we saw it in the same place again and with no expectation […]

Mar 19th, 2023

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Stray cat appears to be gone

Haven’t seen it around for days now, and a lady in the village told me that it is a feral that has been in the area for several years. So on balance we are not going to try to trap it as it would be cruel to take it away from the life it knows. […]

Mar 15th, 2023

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Learning Gaelic now

I’ve always wanted to learn Scots Gaelic. I find it very sad that whilst a hundred years ago nearly everyone in Argyll would have spoken it, the language was systematically and deliberately eradicated from the area and now is not widely spoken outside the Western Isles. So I’ve tried to start learning it from a […]

Mar 10th, 2023

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Stray Cat

Oh dear – we seem to have acquired a stray cat in our garden. We saw it a few times on the webcam over night, and then yesterday it appeared in the daylight and had to be shooed away three times. It is quite scrawny and scruffy and no one in the village seems to […]

Mar 6th, 2023

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More on the Solar

The weather of late has been unusual to say the least. It has been bright, sunny and moderately cold although today it started snowing again! There is snow on Beinn Bheula at about 500m this afternoon. R did some more clever technical work and integrated the Solar/PowerWall system into a dashboard which works with the […]

Feb 27th, 2023

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Beautiful Weather

We’ve had lovely weather over the last few days. Good for us but not so fine for the poor frog spawn. We noticed last week that as usual the frogs had been out in force – but this morning a lot of the eggs were white – meaning that frost had got to them. Having […]

Feb 26th, 2023

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Tree gone

R has been very brave and has cut down a tree which has been obscuring my view for the last year with his new battery powered electric chainsaw. I felt a bit bad about it but it was going to have to go before it got even bigger and risked falling over in a storm […]

Feb 20th, 2023

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Pet theft law

I just had an email from Cats’ Protection wanting me to email my MP about extending a law for having a specific law about dog theft to also include cats. I am not going to do this for a number of reasons. a) This is a useless piece of legislation for a load of reasons. […]