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Sep 12th, 2014

On the move

I am in Helensburgh this afternoon and unusually for me without a tablet PC. So I thought I would try a blog posting using just my phone. And here it is…

Sep 11th, 2014

Tonight R and I walked up the Donich Circular to the Waterfalls. It was a wonderful evening for it, clear and lovely. When we got up on to the hillside at the other side of the falls, the sun has just set and the sky was stippled with golden clouds, while the hills and loch […]

Sep 9th, 2014

Can you bake a Pie?

I made a fancy French ‘Tarte aux Pommes’ tonight to use up some of the apples from our trees on something a bit memorable. It was (or is – we haven’t finished it yet) a sweet pastry case (make it like shortcrust pastry only with a bit more butter to flour than usual (8oz flour, […]

Sep 7th, 2014

Another fantastic Walk

Today we did another fantastic walk – this one courtesy of R (whose idea it was). The weather is much much better for walking now than it was a month ago – as well as all the midgies being gone, it is also quite cool and crisp. I must say that I deliberately slackened off […]

Sep 4th, 2014

The Birds are back in town

During the course of the summer we haven’t seen that many birds… Well we have seen them around of course – but not in the numbers there were in the winter and spring, and often we could leave the feeder all day with little activity. Now all of a sudden they are back in force […]

Sep 1st, 2014

Named and Shamed

Since I took these photographs this morning he has just come in with yet another one. Alive and intact this time. I managed to catch it and put it outside – it went scooting off into the undergrowth as fast as its little legs would take it. For such a sweet fluffy little fuzzball – […]

Aug 31st, 2014

Insects, Fungi and Food

We saw some fantastic insects today, and the first of the autumn fungi are starting to appear. An enormous dragonfly landed on the path in front of me and obligingly let me take his picture. Then a lovely peacock butterfly followed suit. Nature’s harvest is obviously ready very early this year. There are hazelnuts on […]

Aug 31st, 2014

Another Glorious Day around Lochgoilhead

R and I took another walk out to Coran Lochan at the end of our peninsular today. We hadn’t actually been out there for several months and it was interesting to see how it looks in late summer. It was a bit grey when we left first thing this morning, but after about 20 minutes […]

Aug 30th, 2014

The Jay Team

We have had a mystery on the Donich this week. Three days in a row, the bottom was off one of our bird feeders and all the nuts (over half kg) gone out of it. The bottom disk attaches with a butterfly screw – and I attach it reasonably tightly. At first I thought it […]

Aug 28th, 2014

From Hero to Zero

We’ve had some fabulous weather this summer and I’ve posted some beautiful pictures of Lochgoilhead and the Donich. Before everyone decides to move here – I thought I’d show what it can look like at times (quite regularly in fact). This was the view from our house on a thoroughly miserable August day when it […]