Well Argyll is in full bloom now. This is one of the most beautiful times of the year, and as yet (touch wood) no sign of midges although it is normally around this time that they turn up. The weather is still quite fresh though which tends to keep them off a bit. I know […]
Due to the mad policy of Argyll and Bute Council for refuse collection where we only get one general bin every three weeks – our bin always weighs a ton, even though I perforce burn most of our refuse. We also have to drag the bin ourselves about quarter of a mile to where the […]
Went to Helensburgh yesterday to get my hair cut and have lunch with my Mum. The weather was idyllic and I sat out in the square for a while. Last year when I was there, two ducks had taken up residence, and news of the area had obviously spread as there are now six there. […]
Very sadly our beloved cat Schrodi has passed away. He very suddenly started to be under the weather just as I was leaving for the Camino, and while I was away he was diagnosed with liver cancer. We hoped that with drugs he might get another six months of quality life, but he was just […]
Over the years, R and I have rescued a number of different animals. Swans and sheep have been the main ones, although I once saved an eel which got on to our drive. But today we added a new creature. R had heard on Facebook that a new resident of the village had lost four […]
I made a rather nice picture with all the souvenirs from our Camino. Our passports with the “selos”, our Compostela certificates and various photos from along the way. I’ve hung it on the wall with my Scallop. I’m already looking forward to doing another pilgrimage – I was thinking of Canterbury to Walsingham but not […]
Hard to believe, but the snow was back on Beinn Beulah this morning. The temperature gage at loch level was registering -1 C. The snow was all gone by 11am though and it actually was quite warm during the afternoon.
Hope I don’t disclose any confidential information when I say my Mum was 80 on Saturday. My father is nine years older than her and it is hard to believe that it was so long ago that we went to Duxford to fly in a 1930s Dragon Rapide to celebrate his 80th. Sad to say, […]
Well J and I managed the whole walk and also made it home. We managed to get back ok. Our connections were not great – we got out of the apartment at 7am and strangely there was a taxi waiting outside. We had been expecting to have to walk a few hundred yards to the […]
For reasons best known to himself, J got up at the crack of dawn today, so we walked to the station and caught an early train to La Coruna. They have the strangest system of buying tickets here in Spain – you seem to have to specify both the outgoing and returning train. I don’t […]
