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Jun 10th

2015

By donich_admin

Dawn to Dusk

This morning R and I went on our usual walk. The weather is still wonderful – even better today than yesterday. On the way back we walked out to the end of the jetty and took some close ups of the boats. In fact, it was so nice today that we repeated our walk this […]

Jun 9th

2015

By donich_admin

Cats in the woods

As I said the other day, we have builders in at the moment, and this afternoon with the work being quite noisy and the weather beautiful, I thought I would walk right down to the back of our property (about quarter of a mile) and sit by the Donich with a book. Just as I […]

Jun 8th

2015

By donich_admin

What a fantastic morning….

Well the promised good weather seems to have arrived today. R and I walked out along the Inverlounin road very early this morning and took a few pictures of the loch. It was cool but sunny, with the loch calm and still (no substantial number of midgies yet). We took a few photos just to […]

Jun 7th

2015

By donich_admin

Better late than…

Haven’t posted in a while as basically haven’t had a lot to report. R and I have been having our garage converted into offices and we have had builders here every day, plus it has rained more or less constantly. I have never seen weather like this in June in my life – it has […]

Jun 2nd

2015

By donich_admin

Big Surface, Little Surface

As anyone who reads this knows, I am a bit of a geek and also a bit of a Microsoft Fangirl. I’ve actually had (at one time – I don’t still have all of them) every Surface in the range apart from the Surface 2. So I started with the original RT which was too […]

May 27th

2015

By donich_admin

Squirrel proof bird pole

Some time ago my Mum bought me a bird pole for a present. I’ve put it just outside the kitchen window and it has been a constant source of interest ever since. We’ve had a wider of variety of birds since we had it – we’ve started to have regular visits from siskins and occasional […]

May 25th

2015

By donich_admin

Waiting for our visitors

We put our Midge Magnet machines out at the weekend and I noticed yesterday that they were starting to catch a few visitors. It is quite depressing really because although still pretty cold (hasn’t been above 10 degrees today for example) everything is starting to look very lovely (cherry blossom, bluebells, fresh green leaves on […]

May 11th

2015

By donich_admin

Another house with visitors

A number of people locally have commented on how lucky R and I are to have all the wildlife in the garden. I actually think that it is not so much that we are lucky – as that most people in Lochgoilhead don’t know about the wildlife they have themselves because they are not seeing […]

May 8th

2015

By donich_admin

Marks and Spencer Diet

I have to admit that there is a reason I haven’t been writing about cooking of late. It was actually my resolution this year to lose at least 2 stone in weight, and I am pleased to report that I have now done this. Fairly obviously I was trying to keep right off the subject […]

May 4th

2015

By donich_admin

Lochgoilhead Weather Page

A while ago R and I bought a Netatmo weather station. At the moment we have three modules – an indoors one (temperature, humidity, noise level, CO2), an outdoors one (Current temperature, max temperature in last day, min temperature in last day, humidity) and a rain gauge (rain in last hour, rain in last 24 […]