When R opened the front door today ready to set off on our morning walk, we found we had an unexpected guest. He seemed quite fine, but I was concerned the cats might get him, so I carried him down to the pond. He sat up quite calmly on my hand and looked about him, […]
The weather yesterday was so lovely that I went for two walks (R only came for one of them). In the morning it was clear and bitterly cold – our pond was frozen over. We went on the upper path – there are no heiland coos there yet but I hope Billy and his harem […]
I often make homemade soup and bread for lunch (even though I have a sneaky feeling that R prefers M&S soup to at least some of my efforts). Lentil is one of R’s favourites and it should be everyone’s really as it is healthy, cheap and easy to make. In fact very healthy, very cheap […]
I don’t know what this flower is but they are just coming out growing through the stones on our patio – very pretty. Unfortunately I also notice that a holly bush we have in the garden has set out a lot of seedlings which are also sprouting on the patio. I’ll definitely have to get […]
I got my Mum some flowers for Mothers’ Day – and also something quite different and nice which was an afternoon tea hamper, complete with a china cup and saucer. The wicker hamper wouldn’t last long with Tora about – he has completely destroyed the one we got for a Christmas present a few years […]
I wouldn’t have believed it – but this morning the snow is back with alpine views over the mountains. R and I scared a heron off our pond this morning and there are plenty of signs of spring around the village, but the snow being back definitely shows us that winter has not departed for […]
Another beautiful day today – I am sure it is preparing itself to pour with rain on Friday when I have the day off. There was a fair sprinkling of snow this morning, but by the time R and I were on our way back from our walk, it had cleared up, and by this […]
This morning there was a thick layer of ice on the pond. The mountains were incredibly beautiful, white with snow down to about 300m, but pink as the dawn light hit them. Then this afternoon, I walked up to the waterfalls and stopped for a chat with a friend on the way back. Standing talking […]
The weather here today was truly awful as only Highland weather can be. Grey with driving rain and a persistent wind. R and I had hoped to get a really good hill walk in, but instead, we had to content ourselves with our usual walk along the lochside. Nonetheless, spring is on its way. There […]
While I was trying to eat my dinner at the kitchen table this evening, first Schrodi and then Tora decided that a kitchen roll had been creeping up on them and was potentially dangerous. So between the two of them they ripped it to shreds. And then Tora sat in the middle of the devastation […]
