Christmas Eve on the Donich we visited Spain for Tapas Night. Apart from me nearly dying of chili poisoning the food was lovely. Then we played charades and “Animal, vegetable, mineral”. My mum managed an all time record by guessing the answer on her first “question”!
No snow today, just pouring rain and wind. The snowman was built in the garden here by R and I a few years ago. We have only had one white Christmas here in Lochgoilhead. The same year we saw heron prints in the drive.
Here is Heather the Heilan’ Coo. R bought me her from a local chainsaw craftsman a few years ago. R has a chainsaw which he uses to cut down small trees but the only sculpture he would be likely to create with it would be “Man with chainsaw clutching severed leg”. Here is Heather in […]
Unfortunately our Christmas cake is from ASDA this year as I can’t do any baking. Here is a selection of cakes I have baked in previous years. R has just had to drive via Crianlarich to pick up the Turkey in Dumbarton (55m detour) as A83 closed again.
A blast from the past today. Tora and Schrodi had a rather mixed relationship with snow. Here they are during the big freeze of 2009 before we moved from Livingston. Here is their portrait done by Bing AI
Sadly I am not able to bake mince pies this year as my arm is in a sling. Instead I bought them from ‘Fynest Fish’. This is a local company in Inverary who are basically a fishmonger, but deliver a lot of different local produce to the surrounding area. This is the sort of business […]
As ever, 18th is the first day of Mousemas as celebrated by all Donich kitties. It is a carry over from the earlier mid-winter festival of “vole”. Our tree is already up.
Had my shoulder replacement operation. Great care from staff at Ross Hall and nice room. They even let me home a day early as all seems to be going ok and weather tomorrow is forecast to be awful. Arm in sling and strictly forbidden to use, so all posts will be short and to the […]
I’m not on for doing anything too vigorous at the moment because of my arm (and on that note, I won’t be writing much for the next few weeks as I am off to hospital today for a shoulder replacement operation). So I made a Christmas project which didn’t involve two hands or heavy lifting. […]
