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Jun 24th

2015

By donich_admin

Strawberries

Interesting that this time last year I had been eating home grown strawberries for a week or so. Of course they were grown in the (now in the process of being recycled) polytunnel, and the spring was also warmer last year. Having said all that, they are coming on well outside, and look as though […]

Jun 23rd

2015

By donich_admin

Nice weather back (sort of)

After a pretty grim week last week, with some of the coldest days in June that I remember, the situation is much improved this week. At this time of year our walks are a bit restricted because the midgies are very bad on the high trail through the woods and up to the waterfalls, so […]

Jun 21st

2015

By donich_admin

Where have all the flowers gone?

Looking out from my new office window (faces towards the front of the house, Lochgoilhead and Beinn Beulah whereas my old office faced to the rear and Beinn Donich), I saw a beautiful roe deer and her fawn. They munched some long grass (I desperately need to do some strimming but the midgies are awful […]

Jun 19th

2015

By donich_admin

It’s the HOG!

This is the video I took of the Harley Owners’ Group rally going past the end of our road. I remember looking out for it last year (we never saw it because we there at the long time) and being eaten alive by midgies. There were virtually none this year…

Jun 18th

2015

By donich_admin

New Offices

As I have said a couple of times before, R and I have been having our rather dismal (aren’t all garages dismal) double garage converted into offices. He has the rear one (with a new en-suite), and I have the front with French windows. It’s been a huge amount of disruption over the last couple […]

Jun 16th

2015

By donich_admin

Wonderful things….

My friend J was over here on Saturday night. Just when he was leaving he produced a fantastic surprise. J comes from Norfolk, and his late father was a fieldsman. Norfolk is actually the number one place in the UK for archaeological discoveries per square mile, and J has inherited a lot of things his […]

Jun 12th

2015

By donich_admin

Summer visitors

This morning we saw our first gannet of the year on Loch Goil. They seem to be occasional summer visitors here (not like Shetland where you see them by the thousand). I’ve always thought they were very beautiful birds with their yellow throats and graceful black tipped wings. Another set of summer visitors is the […]

Jun 10th

2015

By donich_admin

Dawn to Dusk

This morning R and I went on our usual walk. The weather is still wonderful – even better today than yesterday. On the way back we walked out to the end of the jetty and took some close ups of the boats. In fact, it was so nice today that we repeated our walk this […]

Jun 9th

2015

By donich_admin

Cats in the woods

As I said the other day, we have builders in at the moment, and this afternoon with the work being quite noisy and the weather beautiful, I thought I would walk right down to the back of our property (about quarter of a mile) and sit by the Donich with a book. Just as I […]

Jun 8th

2015

By donich_admin

What a fantastic morning….

Well the promised good weather seems to have arrived today. R and I walked out along the Inverlounin road very early this morning and took a few pictures of the loch. It was cool but sunny, with the loch calm and still (no substantial number of midgies yet). We took a few photos just to […]