After several weeks of miserable weather – the kind of pouring rain/wind in your face combo which Argyll in winter specializes in – things seem to have picked up. For the past couple of days it has been bright and frosty with a sprinkling of frost. We walked up through the cow field this morning […]
Some videos of our local wildlife and a tribute video to our Bengal boys who unwillingly were moved from Livingston to here. I actually embedded these in the site this time instead of hosting them on Vimeo. Three Pine Martens Martens in daylight Badger and cat Cat defeats badger Sausages Night of the Nuts Sad […]
It is nearly 10 years since we moved to Lochgoilhead and many changes have taken place. Obviously the big one for us is that Tora and Schrodi grew old and died. But life goes on and we are now owned by Saphy and Amber. There have been some major changes in other areas which mostly […]
The first year we lived here (nearly ten years ago believe it or not), the weather was beautiful on our first day in the house. R had to go to a prearranged meeting in Edinburgh so I was left with Tora and Schrodi to start unpacking. Optimistically I though that we would have weeks of […]
Apparently these are foods of the 1970s/1980s which aren’t eaten much any more. As a child of the 1970s I remember most of these. 1) Grapefruit. Still around but you never see them served with the traditional half cherry and sugar. They also used to be grilled. My parents saved up Green Shield stamps to […]
When I was at school in Cumbria I had a friend who was fiercely proud of her Cumbrian ancestry. She taught me a few dialect words like “Marra” for friend – but most notably a couple of pieces of doggerel. The first one I came over on the Internet by mistake the other day – […]
We’d been going to do New Year here for my parents, brother, and J, but for various health and weather related reasons, it was cancelled. But actually R and I had a nice time just the two of us (four with the girls). We had some spaghetti carbonara and stood in my office for half […]
Today is R’s birthday and the official last day of Mousemas. I made him a little tree. People seem to know what he likes! It was burgers and chips for dinner. Given the choice of any food in world – R will chose burger and chips every time. Now he has his long awaited air […]
No evidence for which of the girls brought in the shrew today – but my money is on Saphy. There definitely seems to be a difference in intelligence between the rodents – mice/voles and the “predator” insectivore shrew. Voles are often DOA. Mice are frequently alive when brought in but seem to prefer hiding to […]
One vole and one bird today. I am trying to save sensibilities by not specifying the exact type of bird Saphy specializes in – but let’s just say it is not the very common chaffinch and leave it at that. J tried to go home on the bus today. He waited at the bus stop […]
