R and I went for a walk in quite thick snow today. It was coming down all yesterday, and when it stopped for a while, I took the opportunity to clear our (75m!) driveway. An hour or so later it was covered again, but probably best to keep on top of it, as we discovered […]
We don’t see too much of the badger family at this time of year, they just trundle up to look at the nuts from time to time, but don’t seem that interested. This week, however, we have an almost nightly visit from a pine marten, who yesterday morning about 7am sat eating the nuts put […]
We woke this morning to a beautiful day, with clear skies, sub-zero temperature and a good sprinkling of snow. Snowfalls are one of the ways you get to appreciate what a rich environment we live in as the tracks of wildlife were everywhere. Obviously a lot of them were down to the cats, but when […]
This morning R and I left for our walk just as it was getting light. The snow was thick over the mountains and there was a single star (venus perhaps?) hanging just over Beinn Bheula. R took a photo, but it didn’t come out well unfortunately. But later, I took several of the sun coming […]
Back at work now after the long holiday break and feeling very jaded from too much rich food and alcohol from a) Christmas b) R’s birthday and c) New Year in quick succession. So somewhat belatedly I am starting my New Year’s resolution to get detoxed by doing the ‘Clean’ program. Basically for three weeks […]
I am down in Dumfries and Galloway visiting my parents for New Year. Yesterday was an ‘interesting’ journey to say the least. First of all the Rest and be Thankful was closed by a landslide (again – so much for the expensive nets they have put there to try to catch these), so R had […]
R and I had a good Christmas morning walk. Everything is looking very pretty here today, with snow all over the mountains.
My brother N prepared a fantastic Tapas buffet for Christmas Eve. He even decorated the room with Spanish flags, red and yellow balloons and (this was a nice touch) matching tulips. We had (amongst other things) manchego cheese, jamon serrano, quince jam, broad beans cooked with spinach, chorizo with mushrooms, chicken croquettes, chorizo sausage rolls, […]
A peaceful and happy Christmas to everyone. The picture is of the carpark in Lochgoilhead village centre partially under water – let’s hope no one gets flooded out – I really feel for the poor people of Cumbria (which is where I was brought up). This is my table laid for dinner. This is a […]
The cats have been incredibly active over the last few days. Maybe it is having other people in their den, or perhaps it is all the Christmas titbits they have been getting, but they have been acting more like kittens than staid seniors in late middle age. My Mum has bought me a couple of […]
