Feb 4th
2015
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Lovely sunset
Beautiful sunset here tonight with a few clouds just catching the last rays of the sun.
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Feb 3rd
2015
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Snowdrops in the snow
Bitterly cold today, particularly down by the Loch with a biting wind from the north. There’s also plenty of snow still on the ground which is annoying the two sheep (which are still in our garden). But I noticed the first spring flowers today so I suppose it must be on its way eventually.
Feb 3rd
2015
By donich_admin
A lovely Winter day (condensed version)
While we were out walking on Sunday we left our time lapse camera running. I wanted to do a full dawn to dusk originally, but the morning turned out to be a bit boring – mainly because the weather was too nice with no moving clouds to speak of. So I cut that bit out […]
Feb 2nd
2015
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Sheep on a wall
There is a small ivy covered wall in the back garden here which is all that is left of the original lodge house which stood on this site and burned down in the 1970s. In the absence of being able to get at much grass through the snow, our resident escapees spent several hours eating […]
Feb 1st
2015
By donich_admin
Good walk this morning
R and I did the Tom a Chuilg walk today. It was interesting to see that although the snow has mostly gone at ‘Loch Level’, as soon as you walk up out of the valley it is still pretty thick on the ground. Once we got up on to the foothills around Beinn Donich and […]
Jan 31st
2015
By donich_admin
Jamie must be one hell of a guy…
N & J are coming for dinner today and I thought I would make one of Jamie Oliver’s ’30 minute meals’ – in this case Swedish fishcakes with salsa, roast potatoes and alfafa salad. It is a lovely recipe and it all looks very nice (uncooked so far) but I really find it hard to […]
Jan 29th
2015
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Fun in the Snow
More heavy snow overnight. Early this morning R and I cleared the drive which was quite a major task as there was about five inches on it and it is over 70m long and on quite a steep slope. We do know from previous bitter experience though that if we let it build up at […]
Jan 26th
2015
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Don’t challenge cats….
I was getting a bit melancholic about our cats the other day. They are now nearly thirteen and I was thinking that they were slowing down and getting old. So I mentioned to R that Schrodi hadn’t had a mouse in ages and Tora wasn’t going off to the village any more, so they were […]
Jan 26th
2015
By donich_admin
Wildlife back in force
I’ve been a bit concerned over the last few weeks that we haven’t been seeing so much wildlife around… During the cold spell we haven’t been seeing any of the nocturnal visitors we had this time last year. But over the last couple of days as the snow has melted and things have warmed up, […]
Jan 24th
2015
By donich_admin
RSPB Birdwatch
I just contributed to the RSPB Birdwatch project. Unlike last year the website seemed to withstand the strain of all the contributors and did not go down in the middle of the survey (or at least not while I was filling the survey in). We do seem to have less birds than last year here […]