When I left the lounge last night, the bag was standing upright and the mouse was perched on top of it. This morning the bag was on its side and the mouse beside it.  Unless we have a velveteen rabbit scenario here, Lucky has seen fit to retrieve his mouse during the night.  He is […]

We don’t get many Christmas cards, I suppose because we don’t send many. Normally I “make” a card with some photos of Lochgoilhead and environs, but this year I pushed out the boat and actually drew my own card and printed it off. The three cats are Amber who is posting a Mousemas card (inception […]

Made some mince pies today. Last year I had to buy shop made ones because I had my arm in a sling, but this year I reverted to normal and made them from scratch. Mine are much less sweet than the shop ones as I don’t put sugar in the pastry. You actually see them […]

Went out to Tir na Og in Drymen today for lunch with R’s sister V who I haven’t seen in years. We had a very nice lunch (the homemade scones with jam and cream are very good) and then looked at the New Age style shops. Perhaps surprisingly, I quite like this kind of thing, […]

It is the first day of Mousemas today.  As all Donich followers will know, this a cat festival which runs from the 18th to 29th December (by a complete co-incidence, this is also R’s birthday), and is the spiritual successor to the ancient festival of Vole. We humans are finding out new traditions about Mousemas […]

SSE decided in their wisdom to take the entire village off grid all day today. This is stupid in many ways a) it is cold b) it is dark c) many people have a lot to do with Christmas next week d) children are off school. Say they did this work in June – there […]

J turned up here in a jumper with a hole in it, a stain down the front, and a logo which had so disappeared into the fabric that it looked like another stain. Bear in mind that J is moderately wealthy – a new jumper is not in any way beyond his means. So I […]

Went to London with R for a few days to deliver a workshop on computer security. That went pretty well but I won’t burden you on the contents of it as this blog is supposed to be about Highland Life and not Kubernetes (go look it up). After the workshop we went for a walkaround […]

Sorry to harp on, but the freeze continues. R and I went round the Inverlounin loop this morning to search for icicles. We found some. I had been a bit worried about the paths being slippy – though it has been so dry that they weren’t particularly. It is supposed to thaw tomorrow – but […]

The weather is still extremely cold today. It was -6C first thing this morning and I put a bowl of warm water out for the birds with their seeds. This afternoon about 3pm when I went out again – the water from this morning had completely frozen over – so temperature had not risen above […]