After the revolting wheat free pastry I made the other day – I had another more successful attempt. This time – 150g Dove’s gluten free plain flour sifted with 1 heaped tsp xanthan gum. Rub in 75g butter (or vegan margarine) until like breadcrumbs. Then mix in a lightly beaten egg, and enough cold water […]
We get a lot of bird visitors here, but not that many different species (lots and lots, and dare I say it, lots) of chaffinches are our normal visitors – with these partially taken over by siskins in the summer. So we were pleased to see a single goldfinch on the seeds a few days […]
I’ve been told there are several types of fun:- Type 1 fun – you enjoy it at the time and it seems as though it was fun afterwards (e.g. Orient Express) Type 2 fun – it doesn’t seem so great at the time, but after it has finished you remember it as fun (e.g. BSides […]
The primroses here last ages and are still going strong. They seem to like the same areas as violets and are frequently mixed in with them. Where the excavation work for the hydro was done last year along the waterfall path, the flowers are now taking over (thank goodness for nature). The bluebells are also […]
The little roes (stag and doe) have been around a lot recently. The other day I opened the back door and the stag was sitting (sitting!) on the lawn looking at me in a relaxed fashion. Unfortunately he was gone by the time I got the camera out. Then I saw the doe grazing not […]
Cats are strange creatures. Tora hates his cat carrier with a passion when it is time to go to the vet. But yesterday, having left it on the spare room bed, we found him sound asleep in it. Then there is Schrodi who thought it would be nice to sleep half in the bed, half […]
Another nice day today and R and I climbed Beinn Vorlich from Loch Sloy. We had had a go at this one during our staycation in 2015, but a combination of driving rain and high wind defeated us. Today it was a bit windy, but quite fair. There were some good views from the top, […]
I got another badge from Fitbit this week – they are few and far between now as I have all the easy ones and they are becoming increasingly difficult to get. This one is for 500 flights of stairs (equivalent) in one day.
It was miserable weather yet again this morning. R and I walked around Inverary for a while, went to the woollen mill and didn’t buy anything. Then we thought about walking up to the folly at the castle but the rain was coming down heavily so we didn’t and just went home again. I was […]
The cats and I were in the kitchen the other night when I glanced out of the window to see the largest pine marten I’ve ever seen nosing around the bird feeding area. Both cats saw him and started to get very excited – I actually had to grab Schrodi who was all ready to […]
