Dec 27th, 2020

Lots of snow on the mountains today

It even started to snow a little at ground level but it has largely turned to slush now.

Dec 27th, 2020

Starting posting again

Afraid I haven’t posted for a while but I am going to get back into it now. I’ve not been very well and those total idiots in the government gave me a huge extra piece of work to do. Basically I had booked a lovely little lodge at Drymsynie for my parents and brother. At […]

Dec 1st, 2020

Sadly have to give up on ASDA

Very sorry to do this because it was me that asked them to deliver in the first place. But they need to come via the A83 which looks as though it will be shut for the foreseeable future. This is a national disgrace and I don’t know what I am paying my taxes for. I’ve […]

Nov 23rd, 2020

Poena cullei

This is what in Roman times they used to do to people who killed their parents. According to Cicero… He doesn’t mention the animals sewn into the sack but apparently it was generally a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, “They therefore stipulated that parricides should be sewn up in a sack while […]

Nov 12th, 2020

Christmas Presents

R and I have asked people to keep to a minimum of presents this year. I would like a little glass animal (I have a collection) and R would like a bottle of whisky. The balance of what people would have spent I have asked them to donate to either the Cats’ protection or the […]

Nov 3rd, 2020

First Day of Snow

Very cold today and Beinn Bheula is white from about 500m up. I think this winter may be going to be a chilly one. My birthday tomorrow. We will be having a little party at the weekend so my brother can come.

Oct 31st, 2020

Annus horribilis

Well to add insult to injury, as well as this virus nonsense they have now closed all the routes from Glasgow to our house due to “rain” and I have had to cancel my halloween/birthday party. You would think that in Argyll they would be used to rain, but who am I to tell the […]

Oct 21st, 2020

Did a stupid thing

A few months ago I got so sick of getting literally 10s of emails a day about COVID-19 which frankly I don’t want to hear about, that I put a rule in Outlook to delete all of them. I didn’t realize that a load of legitimate businesses would start putting mention of it as part […]

Oct 15th, 2020

Never had the flu

I’m 53 years old and I have never once had flu or been vaccinated against it. I seem to remember that about 30 years ago I had a bad cold which I exaggerated into flu for HR so I could get a few days off work. I dare say I could have come into work […]

Oct 7th, 2020

Books on Amazon

Just as a little publicity for my literary efforts. I’ve self-published two books on Amazon. They are a bit different in theme and content. “Defects of the Heart” I wrote many years ago and is very loosely based on my own experiences at a boarding school in the lake district. The second one is a […]