When I was a child (I’ll date myself and say I am talking 1970s here) fruit was something we all enjoyed and never seemed to get enough of. For example, I remember being told ‘just one tangerine’, and apples were still something happily accepted as a treat (for example at Halloween). Luxury fruit (strawberries, melons […]
I was in the kitchen preparing lunch. I laid out a plate of home made falafels for immediate consumption beside the curry and onion bhajis we were going to have for dinner (luckily the latter two were frozen in a box). I turned away to look at something on my Surface, and when I looked […]
Our Lochgoilhead Gala Day is less than a week away now and the banner is up near the village. Luckily the weather seems to be improving and hopefully we will get a nice day for it.
While I was out today, R got some photos of this rather fine fox in the garden where it sat for more than five minutes this afternoon. I like foxes and this is only the third one we have seen on the Donich. I was very glad to hear the other day that plans to […]
J and I went to Dumbarton today. My Mum’s family come from there and as a child we always spent Easters with them (I lived in Balloch until I was three and then moved near Carlisle). My grandparents lived near the East station and we would walk across ‘the swing park’ to get what my […]
A new member seems to have joined Team Donich today. Off and on since we have lived here, we have seen a great spotted woodpecker on the nuts, but they have always been very shy and elusive. Now over the last few days, a juvenile has started joining us, not feeding off the nuts, but […]
Just went outside for a photo of some very nice cloud formations over Beinn Bheula (R says it looks as though it has a hat on). There were a few midgies – but nothing like this time last year when you wouldn’t have been out there for more than a few seconds before clouds of […]
Around here the walk from Lochgoilhead round to the Donich waterfalls and back via Inveronich is called the ‘Donich Circular’ – however today R and I did a far bigger Donich circular and completely circumnavigated Beinn Donich. There is a good description of it on View Ranger here http://my.viewranger.com/route/details/NjkyNDQ%3D. I would say that it was […]
I was trying to come up with an apt analogy for why the things we can’t get are always more desirable than the ones presented to us. I’m not sure the grass one is exact but the principal of the saying seems to apply to cats as much as humans… To say that we don’t […]
I have to say that this time of year is not my favourite – particularly with the weather being as it has of late (drizzling, calm and midge ridden). The garden doesn’t have the interest and variety it had earlier in the year (or will when autumn comes), with everything seeming to be settled down […]
