Well it is feeling a bit autumnal here for all we are still in August. A few leaves are coming off the trees, the brambles are nearly ripe and the polytunnel and greenhouse are nearly empty after the last month of glut. This evening R mowed the lawn (which doesn’t seem to be taking the […]
I’m off to Glasgow for a business meeting, and as always seems to happen, it is a beautiful day in Lochgoilhead today. R gave me a lift to Helensburgh because he is having new tires put on the car today – they were low on tread when we had the MOT done last week and […]
I knew I was going to do this in the end, and R has been telling me I would give in for weeks now… I know I don’t need a new tablet or laptop – but I just couldn’t not have the new Surface Pro 3 – it is just soooo cool… So I pre-ordered […]
The tomatoes have finally come to an end, and while the plants are dying back, there were quite a lot which were obviously not going to ripen fully, but still were large enough to make good eating. We also had a few courgettes/marrows left over, plus the cooking apples are just starting to be ready. […]
I think I will give up my job as a security tester and live off the income my cats could make by giving masterclasses in cute. My parents went home yesterday and I stripped their beds. Ten minutes later I came back with the clean sheets and Schrodi had ensconced himself in the pile of […]
My parents have been up to stay for a couple of days and of course the weather (which has been great recently) immediately turned foul. This seems to be a theme for their visits because it happened at Christmas and again when they were here in April. My mother comes from this area and had […]
The sheep are back in the field below our house – literally hundreds of them down to be sheared. I keep imagining waking up one morning and seeing them all in our garden. Actually I think they might do some good at the moment – everything is so overgrown that they could do a bit […]
The cherries, raspberries and strawberries are all over now which is a shame because they were a very welcome addition to breakfast every day… However the plums are now ripe and there is an embarrassingly large number of them considering they come from one small tree. I’ve had a bit of a battle picking them […]
Yesterday we went on a trip we have been promising ourselves since we moved in and hired a boat to go out on Loch Goil. It was J’s birthday during the week, so I booked the boat for myself, J, R and (introducing my brother) N. The evening before the guys had stayed over and […]
It is past beautiful here tonight. R and I just walked down to the loch and back and it is really quite a sight to be seen. Only trouble is that I thought our ‘friends’ the midges had left us for this year, but this evening they are back to some extent, though nothing like […]
