Today is R’s birthday. The exact number is a secret, but is one of the big ones. I bought him a bottle of whisky. Saphy bought him a book. Amber sponsored a cat pen at Cats’ Protection for him. R bought himself a red sports car and a holiday for two in Vegas. So that […]

R’s sister V gave me a “Woodland creature garland” for Christmas. Saphy liked this a lot. Lucky is starting his new year diet a bit early. He really is quite badly overweight – from behind his profile is almost square, and when rolling over, he can’t reach the middle of his tummy. He is getting […]

Family went home today. I hope they don’t have the same A83 experience as Santa did trying to get home after finally finishing his deliveries rather late.

Table laid for Christmas dinner. Note the Mr Carson style tape measure – I don’t think J really measured the place settings though! This was our starter, a seafood platter from M&S. We also had their chocolate torte for pudding. With rasps and clotted cream.

Merry Christmas everyone! Amber and Saphy sang the “12 Days of Mousemas” for us (Lucky was outside greeting the mice, voles and birds with goodwill to all creatures). The Twelve Days of Mousemas *Verse 1:* 🎶 On the first day of Mousemas, my human gave to me A mouse in a tiny tree. 🎶 *Verse […]

Christmas Eve on the Donich we visited Spain for Tapas Night. Apart from me nearly dying of chili poisoning the food was lovely. Then we played charades and “Animal, vegetable, mineral”. My mum managed an all time record by guessing the answer on her first “question”!

No snow today, just pouring rain and wind. The snowman was built in the garden here by R and I a few years ago. We have only had one white Christmas here in Lochgoilhead. The same year we saw heron prints in the drive.

Here is Heather the Heilan’ Coo. R bought me her from a local chainsaw craftsman a few years ago. R has a chainsaw which he uses to cut down small trees but the only sculpture he would be likely to create with it would be “Man with chainsaw clutching severed leg”. Here is Heather in […]

Unfortunately our Christmas cake is from ASDA this year as I can’t do any baking. Here is a selection of cakes I have baked in previous years. R has just had to drive via Crianlarich to pick up the Turkey in Dumbarton (55m detour) as A83 closed again.

A blast from the past today. Tora and Schrodi had a rather mixed relationship with snow. Here they are during the big freeze of 2009 before we moved from Livingston. Here is their portrait done by Bing AI