When I was a child I lived in rural Cumbria, and my dream was always to live in a big city (preferably London). I was going to be a barrister and live in a smart apartment with a fancy sports car, wear designer clothes and go to the theatre and the opera a lot. I […]
Occurred to me that it has been a while since we had any time lapse photography on the site, so this evening I got the camera out to show sunset over Beinn Bheula (click on the photo to see the video). It really has been a nice evening and I have been strimming (well brushcutting […]
This was the view out of the front door about 7:15am when R and I were setting off for our walk. It was quite cold though (no more than 6C) – so very fitting for R’s theory that 1st Sept is the first day of autumn. Soon the boats will be coming off the Loch […]
I mentioned some time ago that something had stripped one of my apple trees. Well here is a picture of the potential culprit – a large red deer hind seems to have taken up semi-permanent residence in our garden. Down by the summerhouse the other day I had noticed a large pile of poo, yesterday […]
Sun just going down and some lovely views out to the mountains… So annoying after the less than stellar views from the Cobbler today, that tomorrow it is apparently going to be lovely and I will be working….
R and I climbed the Cobbler today. We actually tried it back in February, but the weather was so totally foul that we gave up on it. I got up at 6am to make a picnic and some coffee and we were out the door before 7am – reason for this was two-fold – firstly […]
We have quite a few fruit trees in our garden. One of them is an eating apple tree which last year had basket loads of small delicious apples on it. I’ve been carefully watching it over the last few days to see if the fruit was ripe. The day before yesterday I thought it was […]
We were very happy to recently have some visitors from Australia who had a family connection with the ‘old’ Donich Lodge (former house on the site where we now live). We took the opportunity to show them round, including the wall in the back garden which is all that now remains of the former house. […]
We went on an expedition up to Tignabruaich yesterday. The weather forecast for the weekend had been just plain wrong as on Saturday (when it was supposed to have been nice, it rained off and on), whilst on Sunday morning when it had been supposed to be grey – it was actually sunny. So on […]
This weekend is the last one of the Scottish school summer holidays, and last year we saw everything become much quieter locally after this point. Particularly the road into the village (single track) tends to become much less busy as we move into September. I don’t want to be accused of being nasty to our […]
