My Mum told me the other day that she had always wanted to go to the Loch Fyne Oyster bar.  Unfortunately it would be very difficult to get her there as we would need to drive all the way to Rhu to pick her up, then drive her to Loch Fyne and all the way […]

R and I were discussing snow on Beinn Bheula. This is the Corbett directly in front of our house and is 771m high. There has been no snow on it yet as we move from autumn to winter, and we couldn’t remember exactly how often there was snow in the second week of November. So […]

For anyone who doesn’t know what a “purrito” is, it is something which happens to very naughty cats who won’t take their medicine. Saphy has a urinary infection, and yesterday R had to take her to the vet in Dunoon. She was not good on the way there or the way back, or when we […]

Back in Sept 2023 I walked the Inverlounin Loop which was one of the two walks R and I did nearly every day. Towards the end of the month I had the fatal slip on the top path part of this walk which finally did for my ankle and let me in for a year […]

As part of my further investigation into ultra-processed food, R and I tried a taste test. We are both fond of yoghurt. I eat natural Skyr with fresh fruit – ingredients: milk, fruit and R eats raspberry Ski – Ingredients – Low Fat Yogurt (Milk), Sugar, raspberry Puree from Concentrate (2.5%), Rice Starch, Natural Flavourings, […]

I walked over to the holiday village at the other side of the loch today (I was once told off for calling it a “holiday camp”). There is a swimming pool there and it is open weekends so I wanted to see how far it was. It turned out to be 1.5 miles. Then I […]

Now a veritable palace has appeared. Our new garage was installed on to its base today – it took all of three hours as it is made of prefabricated panels. A straggly hedge was cut back to make room for it and to ensure that there was still room for the Calor lorry to make […]

R bought me a projector and Apple TV box for my birthday. Today we tried it out in the lounge; we removed a couple of paintings from the wall and projected the video on to it. We watched the BBC’s “Asia” program and it was fantastic – the projector is a real cinema like experience […]

Back in August R was speaking at a conference in Sheffield. This particular conference always seems to give a little tube of seeds away with the freebies in the “goodie bag” (normally it is pens, bottle openers etc). Last year I grew the seeds and they turned out to be some quite successful chilis. This […]

My birthday today – as it was a Monday I actually celebrated it yesterday. R took me to the spa at the Cameron House by Loch Lomond side. This was very nice of him as spas are definitely not his bag. Rather unwillingly he went in all the different heat treatments and the Jacuzzi, but […]