I’ve never been a ‘good’ sleeper, and the problem seems to be getting worse as I get older. Last night the situation was not helped by the cats. First of all Tora insisted on sleeping pressed up against me, then his brother brought in a live rodent (or insectivore possible – R uses the ‘drop […]
Ever since we have lived here (two years now believe it or not!), R and I have wanted to climb Beinn Donich straight from our house without joining the throngs (well not throngs exactly, but you know what I mean) climbing it by the usual route from the Rest and be Thankful. So yesterday we […]
I’ve been doing some brambling in the evenings this week, trying to get a decent amount together to make enough jelly to last a few months. We have quite a lot of brambles along the edges of the garden, and I worked my way up the whole left side of the front garden and gathered […]
R went off for a rare meeting in Edinburgh and I went for the daily walk on my own today. When I left the house just before 8am – I couldn’t see the few hundred yards to the houses at Donich Park (yipee!) for thick fog. I walked up via the waterfalls, and by the […]
Not sure if it is at all related to yesterday’s Supermoon, but I have never in my life seen anything like the colours in the sky at sunset tonight. It was one of those sights that looked so amazing that photos of it don’t look quite real, but more as though someone with a rather […]
Last night there was a ‘Supermoon’ combined with a lunar eclipse – apparently this only happens every 30 years. Unfortunately the eclipse part was due to happen between 1am and 6am – so seeing it would mean getting up in the middle of the night… The Supermoon itself was up by 9:30pm, and by 10:30pm […]
One of my Mum’s friends who was also her next door neighbour just died quite suddenly. R and I had known her for many years and she always really liked this blog. So I put a few photos of Mossdale where she lived up here just to remember her happy times there. She will be […]
R and I continued our assault on the Munros today with Beinn Narnain (in the Arrochar Alps near the Cobbler). This was quite a good climb and we largely enjoyed ourselves, but unfortunately, the weather which had been forecast to be clear by lunchtime, wasn’t, so the visibility from the summit was about 10 feet. […]
We had some new friends from the village here for dinner the other night. They are interested in the local wildlife as well, and I had warned our creatures to be on their best behaviour and turn up on time. True to form, at 6:15 there were five squirrels chasing around the feeder, and by […]
I was halfway through putting clean sheets on the bed when I stepped out to talk to R for a brief moment. On my return a few seconds later, the bed had been colonized by not one but two cats, both of whom had been sleeping peacefully there for hours and were not pleased at […]
