My mum who lives near Dumfries reported that the cuckoo had arrived with her a few days ago. That is about one hundred miles south of us, so I was not surprised to hear them here today. All afternoon I was working in the garden with the cuckoo calling loudly in the background. I learned […]
I have one huge Tech problem – I have a real addiction to upgrading my kit, including to pre-production ‘preview’ versions. Last year R told me not to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 preview – I went ahead anyway and had an ‘interesting’ few months dealing with teething troubles. I said I would never do […]
After my post yesterday about people putting their backs to the wheel, R and I had a busy day today as the time had come to deconstruct the huge greenhouse in the back garden. This is going to be erected on the Community Hub site and will hopefully be used to grow some food for […]
R and I went to the village hall this morning for a meeting about the new Community Hub which is (hopefully) going to be put up on the old curling field near the bridge. This land was kindly donated for a community project – and looks as though it will be put to good use. […]
I got some good footage of one of our squirrels on the new thumbnail camera yesterday. Close up and in colour as well.
Some time ago R bought the lads an electric heated bed. He only got one because we were not sure how well it would go down with them (I once bought them a very very expensive double-decker wicker bed which they wouldn’t touch), and once it was apparent that it was very popular, it hardly […]
R was working today and I wasn’t, so I went up the Steeple on my own. Traditionally in Lochgoilhead there is a running race up this hill every September, but although I am pretty fit I don’t think I will be trying for this as it is extremely steep. The walk itself takes about 2 […]
Fantastic weather in Lochgoilhead today (though cold – there was ice on the summerhouse roof and people scraping their windscreens in the village this morning). I’m about to take off for a long walk to appreciate it but I thought this picture would give an idea of how nice it is. The view is out […]
I added two new cameras to our wildlife setup here on the Donich this week. One is a tiny thumbnail camera my Mum bought R (the idea was to attach it to one of the cats’ collars and get some photos of where they go, but it didn’t work well for this because there was […]
Some time ago I posted about an encounter between a badger and one of our cats. Basically the badger completely ignored the cat and continued eating his peanuts. Well this is obviously symptomatic of badgers’ general attitude to life as shown in this video, where the pine marten is disturbed whilst eating and runs off, […]
