Foul weather today. Here a load of precipitation turned into very wet snow which then semi-melted into a layer of slippery mush on the drive. I was back confined to barracks because of the risk of falling with my foot and R had to feed the creatures (at least the foot part is my story […]
Fortunately not the real thing, but a catnip mouse Saphy left in the lounge a few weeks ago. Lucky has never shown the least bit of interest in it, or any other toy apart from pieces of string (and R’s trousers, and human hands), but this morning he suddenly saw it and went for it […]
It’s been freezing cold white frost for the last few days. The back garden has never even defrosted when the sun hit it. Amber went into hiding while I was changing R’s sheets. Apart from that she has found a new place right next to the radiator. Then this afternoon right after R and I […]
As will be apparent from other posts, I am a big fan of both natural (i.e not ultra-processed) and locally produced/seasonal food. I’m trying to wean myself off things we can’t grow in UK, or more exactly, I am trying to buy the things we can grow in this country in the proper season when […]
Walked to Inverlounin House this morning. This is as far as you can get along the “coast road” – Fitbit says 4.71 miles return to Donich Lodge, but Google Earth says 4.2 miles (like it or not I suspect the Google reading is correct). On the way we saw a nice heron taking off as […]
Today was the first snow on Bheula (717m); this is about an average date for its first appearance, and by the sound of it we have a cold week to come. My estimate is that the snowline is at about 500m today, so a long way from affecting us down at loch level. By way […]
Today I walked to Rock Cottage on the Inverlounin Road (and back obviously). This is about 3.5m in total. The cottage itself is owned by a nice couple from London who we used to know slightly. There is a fantastic badger sett in their garden, and R and I (well R really) set cameras up […]
For November this is very nice. We walked round by the Inverlounin Road today and this was the view from the seafront. I must have a hundred pictures of that view, but it is not one you ever get tired of.
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 […]
