R’s birthday is 29th December. As you can imagine, this is not the best date to have your birthday. The weather is always awful, everyone is away, and the idea of having yet another set of rich food and drink between Christmas and New Year is not appealing. Last year I wanted to take him […]
My Mum bought me a present of a wobbly cat back from the Chelsea Flower show. She got one herself which is called “Mr Wobbles”, so I decided to call mine “Mr Shoogles”. He is very cute and will sit on the bookcase in my office. Pictured with him is another gift from my mum […]
I finished up work a bit early today (about 4ish) had a quick snack and then popped out and climbed Cnoc Coinnich. I was just thinking to myself what a place we live in where you can be working on a report at 4pm, at the top of a mountain at 7:30pm and home writing […]
I love Strawberry jam – so today I took advantage of the fact that they are ridiculously cheap at the moment and bought a big batch to make jam. I should also say that they are in season Scottish and quite delicious. Personally I wouldn’t thank you for strawberries imported from the other side of […]
This is a ‘sort of’ minestrone which I make sometimes if I don’t have the right vegetables for one of my usual soups. Fry two medium onions and a sweet pepper in a little olive oil. When soft, add a couple of cloves of finely chopped garlic and fry a bit more. Then add a […]
I don’t like mowing the lawn here. There are two reasons for that (well three if you count the midgies). Firstly I have to say I’m just not that keen on mowing the lawn (never have been), but secondly, it seems like a crime here because of the hundreds of wild flowers that are being […]
This is based on https://www.buzzfeed.com/donnalouisebishop/things-that-mildly-annoy-people-from-norfolk?utm_term=.rdMA6KK8o#.rxJ4pVVre which I thought was very funny. Number 18 is particularly funny as my friend J comes from Norfolk and always bridles when anyone mentions it being flat… So here is the rural Scotland version… It is tuned towards Argyll a bit but I’m sure anyone from outside a city will recognize […]
R’s pictures turned out better than mine so here are a few of them (click the main image to see the gallery).
R and I expanded our climbing area a bit today and drove out to Crianlarich to climb Ben More and Stob Binnein. We’d actually intended to go yesterday but the weather was not so great in the morning although it had got really nice by late afternoon. Got up at 6am today and noted with a […]
We have a new webcam with better resolution. Unfortunately this means that we are having difficulty getting it to activate for the wildlife – and at the moment we are largely getting photos of the cats on their nocturnal wanderings. But yesterday we got a nice shot of a badger – unusually this time it […]
