For some reason Schrodi has always ‘liked’ toilet rolls. This one below was always my favourite as he has a sort of “and yes so what?” expression on his face. Today I went into the guest bathroom and noticed that he had found another instance of the toilet roll prey.

Here are some rolls I made for the weekend in the shape of hedgehogs. They are filled with cheese, onion and bacon. Actually hedgehogs are one form of wildlife we don’t have here as they are not compatible with badgers which are the only creatures that can kill and eat them. We used to have […]

R and I have decided to have a go at climbing Mont Blanc next year. This is the highest mountain in Europe at 4808m – so no minor challenge. As a preparation for it – we are going to climb Mount Tiede in Tenerife in January – this is a mere 3718m. I actually thought […]

R bought the cats a little turtle toy which we stuffed with catnip today. Unfortunately they don’t seem that interested so it can’t be the really good stuff. This is Schrodi on the bed with the turtle.

First thing this morning, Beinn Bheula was absolutely clear of cloud. Two hours later you couldn’t even see the mountain at all. In fact, you could hardly see the houses at the edge of the village. Half an hour later and Bheula is back again. R and I call this type of weather “Goily” which […]

I thought the sparrowhawk had moved on out of our garden – but it is obviously still around as we got a very nice shot of it in the webcam. It’s the most beautiful bird – although of course it is entirely inimical to all our chaffinches and tits. Having said that – we have […]

I had a go at making some home made flaky pastry which turned out pretty well. Actually the GBBO has been very inspirational for me as I never used to make this stuff before. The picture shows my sausage rolls with the home made pastry.

We went up Beinn Donich again today. Broadly this year has been a rotten year for climbing and we haven’t managed to get many new mountains done, but today was an exception. It was just the right temperature and very sunny too. Here are some of the photos…. While we were walking down the hill […]

I got a rather nice picture of the moon over our garden as I went out for a walk early the other day. Also some rather spectacular clouds over Beinn Bheula.

Our apple trees keep producing more and more fruit this year – to the extent that I am struggling to know what to do with it. Today I am making a load of apple jelly – hopefully my father who is very fond of preserves of all sorts will appreciate it. This has only cleared […]