This is a ‘sort of’ minestrone which I make sometimes if I don’t have the right vegetables for one of my usual soups. Fry two medium onions and a sweet pepper in a little olive oil. When soft, add a couple of cloves of finely chopped garlic and fry a bit more. Then add a […]
I don’t like mowing the lawn here. There are two reasons for that (well three if you count the midgies). Firstly I have to say I’m just not that keen on mowing the lawn (never have been), but secondly, it seems like a crime here because of the hundreds of wild flowers that are being […]
This is based on https://www.buzzfeed.com/donnalouisebishop/things-that-mildly-annoy-people-from-norfolk?utm_term=.rdMA6KK8o#.rxJ4pVVre which I thought was very funny. Number 18 is particularly funny as my friend J comes from Norfolk and always bridles when anyone mentions it being flat… So here is the rural Scotland version… It is tuned towards Argyll a bit but I’m sure anyone from outside a city will recognize […]
R’s pictures turned out better than mine so here are a few of them (click the main image to see the gallery).
R and I expanded our climbing area a bit today and drove out to Crianlarich to climb Ben More and Stob Binnein. We’d actually intended to go yesterday but the weather was not so great in the morning although it had got really nice by late afternoon. Got up at 6am today and noted with a […]
We have a new webcam with better resolution. Unfortunately this means that we are having difficulty getting it to activate for the wildlife – and at the moment we are largely getting photos of the cats on their nocturnal wanderings. But yesterday we got a nice shot of a badger – unusually this time it […]
I’ve been off on holiday in Northern Ireland, cruising round Lough Erne. Inevitably, the web server behind all my sites picked the moment we left to pack in, and us being super security conscious people (well R is anyway…), we didn’t leave ourselves a back door to get in and fix it. So if anyone […]
We left the boat at Manor Marine after the Galley Slave (me) had given it a good clean. It was rather amusing that the guy from the boat company had just as much trouble parking it as N had had during the course of the week. I used the on-share ‘facilities’ one more time, with […]
This was our last full day in NI, and again the weather was a bit changeable. I was struck again as we pootled back towards Enniskillen what a beautiful, green and unspoiled area this really is. Myself, I prefer the ruggedness of Argyll, but this place definitely has its charms too (and I must say […]
Today we set off to explore the ‘Upper Lough’ – this is much narrower and twistier than where we have been up to now – and there are many small wooded islands. These all look very like each other – so thank goodness for View Ranger. At one point going through a channel that was […]
