After a damp and midgie week the weather suddenly picked up late this afternoon and most of the insects vanished.  I made the most of it by going for a quick hike up Cnoc Coinnich. The views were sensational as ever. I didn’t see a soul the whole way apart from a few sheep, until […]

R and I went for our normal walk this morning although it is not pleasant at the moment as the midgies are fierce (they love warm wet weather as we currently have).  On the way out we narrowly evaded Schrodi by running down the driveway. But we had to walk through the village to post […]

I made lunch for some friends from London today.  I’d prepared a (relatively) healthy crème fraiche based crowdie for desert – then right at the last minute I thought it looked a bit underwhelming and decided to make a cake I’d been wanting to have a go at for a while – a Sachertorte. I’d […]

My brother N is not fond of sweet things (well – he isn’t now although until he was in his 20s his idea of a good breakfast was half a packet of chocolate digestives or 2 twirls) so when I went down to Mum and Dad’s for his birthday, I made him a rather unusual […]

Hard to believe what a change there has been in the weather since yesterday.  Last night about 8pm I took this picture at the top of the Tam A’Cheulig walk.   The cloud was thick and solid around 250m and I couldn’t even see the top of the Steeple, let alone Cnoc Coinnich. And then […]

I’ve been deconstructing an old shed in our garden preparatory to having a new one constructed this week (not by us I hasten to add – we are getting the manufacturer in to do it this time). This was a pretty hard and dirty job, but it was nice to see that I got plenty […]

On Saturday I got up very early (5:45) to be able to go for a walk before we went to Glasgow for the day.  I’ll be honest here and admit that trying to get the “Perfect Week” cheevo on my new iPhone might have been part of this. Glancing out of the window while making […]

This made a very tasty lunch which was ready from scratch in an hour. I made some home made rolls using my super-fast microwave method – and we had them with some baked peppers.   Normally I do a fancy stuffing, but on this occasion I just cut each pepper in half and took the seeds […]

I’ve never seen anything like the blossom on our fruit trees this year.  The apple tree in the picture is particularly splendid – in previous years it has never done much. So hoping for a good harvest and many apple pies.  The smaller tree beside it is a pear, and it has also been loaded […]

The ducks seem to be becoming semi-permanent residents on our pond.  The female keeps looking around the area in a vaguely broody way as though she is thinking about making a nest.  I would have thought it was a bit late in the year – in any case I would rather she didn’t as I […]