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Dec 19th

2014

By donich_admin

Donich Cottage

My parents, my brother and R’s sister always come to us for Christmas. Last year our house was literally bursting at the seams because although we have four bedrooms, two of them are used as offices. It really felt as though there was nowhere to go for a bit of peace and quiet, also there […]

Dec 16th

2014

By donich_admin

Beautiful walk this morning

R and I went for our usual walk this morning as the weather was pretty good. The Highland cows were on the path as was the resident bull who we have christened ‘Billy Big Balls’. They are very placid creatures that don’t seem to be alarmed by humans at all – but they have fearsome […]

Dec 16th

2014

By donich_admin

Vegan Christmas – Part two

I had a good idea for V’s Christmas dinner. Although I like vegan food, somehow to me something is missing if you can’t have a full ‘all the trimmings’ dinner on Christmas day. I don’t think (for example) that a curry or pasta would really cut it. So I have made a sort of ‘Christmas […]

Dec 14th

2014

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Guess Who…

When we were trying to clear the snow off the drive before it turned to solid ice, we saw some interesting footprints…. I presume these are from our resident heron.

Dec 13th

2014

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Snowscape this morning

We have had quite a lot of snow overnight. It is incredibly beautiful. A bit worrying though because R is driving back this morning and I have guests coming from Glasgow.

Dec 12th

2014

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Woes yesterday, snow today

We woke up this morning to see that the first real snow of the year had fallen overnight – we probably only have about 2cm here at ‘Loch level’ but the hills are very white. Yesterday was one of those days where everything seemed to go awry. First we lost our ADSL connection because the […]

Dec 11th

2014

By donich_admin

Christmas Tree

I put my Christmas Tree up yesterday with a thunderstorm raging in the background – very bizarre. I confused my Mum into thinking I was super organized with the picture of the tree on the blog last week – that was last year’s tree which had a gold theme – this year it is silver. […]

Dec 10th

2014

By donich_admin

More storms…

More storms. Right now it is hail accompanied by thunder and lightning. The ground outside looks snowy in the picture – but it is in fact a layer of hail so thick that it is lying on the ground in drifts. R and I braved walking down to the front at high tide to see […]

Dec 9th

2014

By donich_admin

Storm today

Don’t think I have seen rain like today in a very long time (if ever). Not the snow that MSN has been forecasting for ‘tomorrow’ every day for the last week – just high winds and absolutely torrential downpours. Luckily I got our shopping in in Dunoon this morning because this is classic weather for […]

Dec 8th

2014

By donich_admin

Wimps

Back in the distant days of summer, R and I promised that we would faithfully go for a walk every day in the winter – even if the weather was foul. Reason being that last winter we put on an alarming amount of weight through lack of exercise (and to be honest – overeating!). This […]