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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I have mentioned before, my sister-in-law, V recently became a vegan. So this is the first Christmas I have had to try making some vegan meals. I’m making things I can freeze in advance, because on the day itself I have my hands full with the turkey. So today I made stuffed peppers. Take […]
I made a Lochgoilhead Advent calendar in PowerPoint. Free to download for any one interested….. Click here to download – advent
Over the last few days we have had some new visitors – a female roe deer and her nearly grown fawn. We’ve had red deer in the garden many times, but I think these are our first roes, and they are very beautiful. Yesterday afternoon they were grazing on the back lawn (they seem to […]
There were some amazing views out over the mountains as the sun went down this afternoon. I can’t make my mind up which season this area looks best in – every one of them is beautiful in its own way. Before we moved here, R and I discussed whether it would be possible to get […]
Christmas seems to have crept up on us a bit this year – probably because work has been so busy. I’ve now managed to get most of my presents, though as usual I am struggling with getting something for R. He denies he is a difficult person to buy for – but the trouble with […]
For reasons buried in the depths of the past, all my mobile phones have traditionally had a variation of “Griffon” as their name. I currently have two phones, a Lumia 1020 which is my production phone and camera – aka as “Griff” and a Lumia 520 which I use for testing apps. R pointed out […]
