I must say that Tora has not looked for Schrodi once since he died. He is also now a much happier and more confident cat. Yesterday he caught three rodents, one mouse, one short tailed vole, and one unidentified creature which had been largely eaten. The picture is of him having jumped into a cupboard […]

Sorry to have to go against the trend here but I am going to and I don’t care what anyone says about me on Twitter or any other one of these inane social media sites. I’ve nothing against vegetarian food, and in fact I don’t eat a lot of meat myself, but this modern trend […]

My Mum and Dad came for lunch today (and very nice it was too). One of the things I got in was some vanilla custard slices as I knew my Dad was very fond of them. To be honest, neither R or I like them though, and we were left with one over. I wasn’t […]

Got a lovely picture of a jay on the nuts yesterday. We don’t see as much of them as we used to which is perhaps as well as they were eating us out of house and home. Also saw a baby fox running round the house but it was gone too quickly to get a […]

Beautiful day for a change today and I tried to sit out in the garden. I thought all would be well but after about two minutes clouds of midgies appeared and zoomed in on me. They don’t actually seem to bite me (unlike R who they always go for) but they fly right into my […]

I went to see Mum and Dad in Helensburgh today. My Mum gave me a lovely glass ornament to take away. Apparently one of her friends had given it to her when her cat Heidi (who was a boy by the way) died, as they had a tradition of doing this in their family when […]

The night before last I unfortunately scared off a huge pine marten when refilling the seeds for the birds. This morning, the baby marten was back on the bird table. I stood and watched it for about ten minutes and it was stuffing the nuts down as quick as it could. They must have been […]

The wildflowers are coming out around the pond at the moment and in the water the water lilies are just coming out. Unfortunately we are having a major wasp problem in our tractor shed where we keep our lawn mower. Today I had to destroy five new nests and spray the remaining wasps with Raid. […]

This morning R noticed activity on the bird table. A young pine marten was busily munching on the nuts. As we watched him, suddenly a squirrel jumped onto the seeds below, and didn’t seem to notice the presence of the marten. The marten saw the squirrel alright though and tried to pounce on him. Both […]

We have a clematis which has woven itself through a bush near the back door. Every year it has flowers on it the size of plates. Our strawberry flowers are out now, although I don’t think I got a single berry last year as the squirrels ate them all. It is looking more promising for […]