Two of the vegetable beds are fully dug now. I’ve not been getting on as fast as I would like because of having a lot on and it being generally backbreaking work of the sort that tends to get put to the back of the queue. I’ve done about half of bed three as well… […]
Spring iz sprung, De graz iz riz, I wonder where de boides iz? De boid iz on de wing – Dats absoid; De wing iz on de boid. Which is just as much as to say that spring has now arrived. There will be bad weather to come I am sure – and we even […]
Lochgoilhead is a major centre for the Scouting Association. They have a residential base here and their season seems to have started now because we have seen groups around over the last few weeks. Often I feel quite sorry for them because they are out canoeing and abseiling and having to be jollied along in […]
I went for a walk early this morning. All this week the forecast had been promising a good day today – but at 7am it was really misty. So at sea (loch) level it was pretty misty. Half a mile further on and into the forest and it was clearing as the path rose higher. […]
The weather was simply fabulous today. R and I walked out along the ridge behind the village and could see that there was a cruise ship in. The people on the ship really must have seen Lochgoilhead at its best – I’ve never really fancied a cruise on a big liner – but this one […]
Nothing beats cats for contrary. Shut them out of a room and they want in, shut them in and they want out. Back before I was an experienced cat owner I used to buy them expensive toys only to have them ignore them in favour of the box they came in. Anyway – we can’t […]
Last night I asked R to go and put some food out for our night time visitors while I made some coffee. More fool me because he was the lucky one – going round the corner of the house towards the shed, he heard a snuffling sound. Standing very still, a badger came right up […]
We now have a seriously large number of frogs coming out of hibernation and making the most of the spring (to put it politely). There is frog spawn in large quantities in the ditches, and every time I walk past our pool I can see the ripples as they swim for cover (don’t blame them […]
Today we had another major thrill. Our second webcam (after the success of ‘shedcam’) is ‘pondcam’ and this is where anyone following the blog will have seen the video of our heron. But I was never expecting to see the pictures we got from it this morning. About 4am a long sinuous creature swam rapidly […]
We are not ‘official’ vegetarians, but we eat very little meat. Having said this I am constantly on the verge of taking the plunge with the only things that stop me being a) I’m not sure I see the full logic of the move unless you go the whole hog (so to speak) and go […]
