Definitely the best time of the year for wildlife. This little roe stag visited the webcam area around tea time and made a meal of part of one of our bushes (a very prickly one but they don’t seem to mind the thorns). You can see the velvet on his lovely new antlers Click on […]
In spite of the constant heron activities, the frogs did finally arrive in our pond, and for about a week we could hear the low burble of their croaking whenever we walked down the drive. In fact I think the frogs have done very well this year – every pool and puddle seems to be […]
The other night we caught this on the webcam (Click on the picture to play the video). Tora sat for several minutes quietly contemplating a badger which simply ignored him. Lots of badger activity at the moment – the poor pine marten turned up at 4am one night to find that every single nut had […]
I made this bread which featured on the bake off a few years ago. It was seriously nice – although when I make it again I think I will ditch the goats’ cheese as I am not that fond of it. It certainly looked very good and would make a nice centre piece for a […]
This is Billy our local bull and his favourite cow in the field by our house. I thought this was a very tender family scene as the calf is his son from last year. As I approached the youngster was having a drink from Mum, and Billy was resting his head against her side – […]
The spring flowers are finally in bloom. Narcissi everywhere in the garden. One solitary snowdrop which has suddenly appeared by the fence – I’ve never seen one in our garden before and actually there aren’t that many in this area. Some pretty flowers which grow in the drive every year and which someone told me were […]
This idea was a combination of my own, and something I saw on the Bake Off. Normally it takes at least two hours to make yeasted bread from scratch – so if you are a bit disorganised like me – sometimes you may forget and end up having to make soda bread at the last […]
I’ve always wanted to find an easy way to the top of Beinn Donich without having to either drive or walk all the way to the top of the Rest and then take the tourist path. A couple of years ago R and I found a sort of way by walking up to the Tam […]
The yearly spring inspection of the pond by a pair of ducks has begun. Every year they turn up, and every year (so far) they have rejected it as a possible nest site. This is perhaps because of the presence of our heron which was eying the new arrivals doubtfully – but more likely because they […]
Sunday here was absolutely dire of course as my brother and sister in law were visiting. We toiled up to the waterfalls but it was pretty dismal in driving rain and with pretty high winds. V took a few jars of frog spawn away to “seed” their new wildlife pond. Then of course Monday was […]
