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Feb 9th

2015

By donich_admin

Paws the cat

While we were away I am afraid both R and I were unfaithful to Tora and Schrodi by petting another cat. This was ‘Paws’ who lives in Mossdale Post Office. He is a polydactyl cat – which means he lives up to his name as both his front paws have two extra toes, making his […]

Feb 8th

2015

By donich_admin

Lovely Weekend

We visited my parents this weekend. As I think I mentioned before they live near Loch Ken in Galloway which is another really beautiful part of the country. It was particularly lovely this weekend because the weather was superb the whole time: bitterly cold but clear and sunny. In fact they have had more snow […]

Feb 7th

2015

By donich_admin

What a sunset

This was one of the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen.

Feb 5th

2015

By donich_admin

Rest and be Thankful

R and I went to Dumbarton today to get some shopping and pick up J who is looking after our cats for the weekend while we go to see my parents. It was a lovely sunny day and I don’t think I have ever seen ‘The Rest’ looking quite so spectacular. As ever I took […]

Feb 4th

2015

By donich_admin

Cats and Sheets

There is something about new freshly washed sheets that cats love. Yesterday I changed our bed – and they were both on it within ten minutes and made royal pains of themselves all night. Today I prepared a bed for J who is coming to look after them this weekend. I turned my back for […]

Feb 4th

2015

By donich_admin

Lovely sunset

Beautiful sunset here tonight with a few clouds just catching the last rays of the sun.

Feb 3rd

2015

By donich_admin

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

By donich_admin

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 […]