The weather has been very cold here with frost on the car nearly every morning. We haven’t had the threatened snow – although the mountains are still very white. R and I have reverted to 7am for our walks now it is light again and yesterday was very beautiful. At first the loch was entirely […]

My Mum and I went to the Highland Wildlife Park yesterday to do the Keeper for a day experience. I had had it planned for ages and it was purely fortuitous that the polar bear cub put in its first appearance the week before. We did see it in the distance, but they are (for […]

Having done a lot of climbing in Scotland – I had the idea that R and I might climb Mont Blanc on a guided trip this summer. R was a bit worried he wouldn’t do well at altitude and the Mont Blanc trip is very expensive, so we thought we would book a quick cheap […]

Don’t think the photo has taken very well as it was through the window, but we have recently acquired a much better variety of birds at our feeding area. When we first came here we got chaffinches by the score, along with assorted blue-tits, coal-tits and great-tits and not that much else. Two years ago […]

Frog spawn everywhere again as usual at this time of year. Yesterday we watched two frogs locked together in connubial bliss on the grass near the pond and totally ignoring us. Unfortunately for them, the heron is also back and is taking its usual toll of the poor little slimies. Still, nature red in beak […]

Now my Mum and Dad are just down the road, I thought I would invite them over for Dinner on Mothers’ day. I decorated the room with flowers and balloons and the meal had a “pink” theme where I tried to make everything that colour. This was not entirely successful as I bought some salmon […]

My Mum is coming over for Mothers’ day and I set a nice bed for her up in our spare room with ironed sheets and a rose on the pillowcase. I also put an ironed towel down for her at the bottom of the bed. Unfortunately then I did not close the door properly and […]

R says the first day of spring is 1st March. I say it is 21st April. Today I think I am somewhat justified as we have a load of snow, and by the look of it more to come. This has definitely been the most severe winter since we moved here. Actually I quite like […]

R and I are running a conference in Glasgow during April and we are having a competition involving a cake. This is one very serious cake as it is designed to serve 300 people. This is one of the four layers – my Mum made me laugh when she said it looked like a rug! […]

I was clearing the loft out having acquired a very expensive skip on the basis it was better to do that than to have to be driving backwards and forwards to the tip in Helensburgh all the time. Our loft is only partially floored and carrying a box of books (I don’t use paper books […]