Today R got a new bed. The old one had been a Saphy project in more ways than one. Firstly she had ripped the shit out of the headboard, and secondly she had had more than one bird under there over the last year or so. Although we had managed in general to either rescue […]

R and I walked out to Drimsynie Beg today. The spring sunshine was brilliant and we could hear a distant woodpecker. Some great views over towards Ben Donich We didn’t meet a single soul the whole way there – on the way back we were passed by a solitary power walker.

R and I went for a walk this afternoon and saw the first primroses out. The frogs were out in force in our pond when we got back. This was the closest I could get without scaring them off, but there were lots of them busily making little frogs with much churning of the water. […]

R and I walked out along the riverside path today. When out walking yesterday we noticed that they are doing forestry work on the upper path and in places they have “improved” the track by putting huge lumps of stone in all the pot holes. Walking on very rough terrain down hill is one thing […]

There is frog spawn in every ditch and pond. Sadly our pond doesn’t get many any more – I think I know the culprit, one of these gentlemen flew off as R and I passed him.

What sort of activities you may ask? Particularly as R was away in London. Cat activities. First of all just after I went to bed, Amber joined me for a night-time purr. She has a loud and penetrating purr and she likes to do it as close to your ear as possible. After a while […]

When I was about eight years old, my parents acquired one of those beautifully bound “sets” of books which build every month into a collection which sit and look good on bookshelves, but rarely, if ever, actually get read. This particular set was “classics of literature” and as there weren’t that many books in our […]

J was passing through Helensburgh today and I asked him to get me a bunch of bananas and “a few” chillies. He got them from Nature’s Harvest in Helensburgh, which is one of my favourite shops as it sells stuff like gooseberries which the supermarkets have stopped selling. As you can see, they have a […]

I forgot to leave Lucky any wet food last night. There were two big bowls of dried food (which he quite often eats by choice), but on this occasion they were not sufficient. He then decided to signal his own ability to provide food, and indeed to offer us one of his surplus mice, as […]

In our garden – they have been with us over a month now. Yesterday I cut a huge pile of brambles – I had meant to put them on the compost heap today, but there has been about five minutes when it has not been raining. The sheep are greatly enjoying them and they are […]