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Mar 15th

2021

By donich_admin

Don’t know what this world is coming to

I’m going to stop reading the news from today. A world where protests are allowed over someone who died in a different country over at the far side of the world, and now they are banning them over a serving police office in London who killed a girl and dumped her in a drain beggers […]

Mar 8th

2021

By donich_admin

This giant toad

Was sitting on our doorstep this morning. He is lucky Tora didn’t go for him!

Feb 24th

2021

By donich_admin

Managed to get my oven repaired

The poor engineer had to come over in the Dunoon ferry due to those idiots closing the road again. I am not an engineer but I honestly believe that this idiotic digging of pits has just destabized the whole thing and made matters a whole lot worse than it was before they started. If we […]

Feb 11th

2021

By donich_admin

Food from Argyll

I just got an order from Array Fish from Inveraray. When they started delivering it was just Fish, but now they are doing all kinds of other stuff including vegetable boxes and organic local milk. The Argyll economy could frankly use a major boost after all this nonsense has gone on so I am supporting […]

Feb 2nd

2021

By donich_admin

My Highly Privileged upbringing

R accused me of having a privileged up bringing. So just to set the record straight. My grandparents on my mother’s side lived in a one room tenement in Dumbarton. My grandfather was a builder’s labourer. In the 1930s he would need to get up every morning and see whether there had been frost. If […]

Jan 21st

2021

By donich_admin

Another pet hate

Another feature of modern life which I frankly detest. The word for a dramatist of the female gender is “actress” A male police person is a “police man” and a female one is “police woman”.

Jan 13th

2021

By donich_admin

Bought some seeds

Between Brexit and Covid it is not looking that good for fresh food for summer. So I have bought some heritage carrot and beetroot seeds. I am going to plant them in some raised beds as I had no luck with planting stuff in the main garden as it was immediately attacked by wireworms. I […]

Dec 27th

2020

By donich_admin

Lots of snow on the mountains today

It even started to snow a little at ground level but it has largely turned to slush now.

Dec 27th

2020

By donich_admin

Starting posting again

Afraid I haven’t posted for a while but I am going to get back into it now. I’ve not been very well and those total idiots in the government gave me a huge extra piece of work to do. Basically I had booked a lovely little lodge at Drymsynie for my parents and brother. At […]

Dec 1st

2020

By donich_admin

Sadly have to give up on ASDA

Very sorry to do this because it was me that asked them to deliver in the first place. I’ve moved over to Morrisons. They come from Dunoon and seem to have a better stock selection and reliability.