I picked what was left of the easily accessible brambles today. When I was a child we used to say that on 1st October the devil spat on the brambles and you shouldn’t eat them after that. There is some truth in the date thing because as autumn progresses they tend to be either wizened […]
A nice walk up to the waterfalls – still looking quite summery.
They seem to be everywhere this year. Unfortunately I never quite have the nerve to pick and eat any. A far cry from when I was a teenager living in West Cumbria right out in the countryside. Gypsy boys used to come to the door with baskets of vast field mushrooms the size of saucers […]
I felt like doing some baking today, so I rustled up some sausage rolls. I am not ashamed to admit that I used shop bought puff pastry, because although I am a big fan of homemade things, and also can make it myself successfully (honest I can), it is way more trouble than it is […]
I saw this classic fairy toadstool by the river today. I was half expecting there to be a little door in the side of it.
I went to see my Mum in Rhu today. I can honestly say that there is nothing much more dismal than your Scottish seaside town when the weather is very bad, and Helensburgh is pretty typical of this. When the sun is shining, it is a lovely place to be, but even in August it […]
The huge stag is back yet again. He really is a most magnificent creature. A true monarch of the glen And mush – leave my fruit trees alone!
Well. round the side of the hill really, but I am sure you know the song. I am actually a big Al Jolson fan. I know he is not politically acceptable these days because of blackface, but actually he was Jewish himself and was very accepting of black people, and would invite them into his […]
Many dragonflies around the pool today. Before we came to Argyll I had only ever seen them in Spain – but here there are lots, and not only around places like our pond where you would expect to find them, but also in rather more unlikely places. For example there are loads of the small […]
