The cats and I were in the kitchen the other night when I glanced out of the window to see the largest pine marten I’ve ever seen nosing around the bird feeding area. Both cats saw him and started to get very excited – I actually had to grab Schrodi who was all ready to […]
R seems to have developed a bit of a wheat allergy. I never knew you could “develop” allergies, I thought you were born with them – but R seems to have managed it. I wish he could have been allergic to something a bit more convenient, because avoiding wheat is a right pain in the […]
Ever since R and I started climbing a couple of years ago – my dream has been to climb Ben Nevis – not using the normal “Tourist Route” (which basically involves several hours of walking up a steep man made path in the company of other people) but via the Carn Mor Dearg (CMD) Arete […]
As I said, R and I have this week off as a “staycation” – our idea was to do some climbing – starting off in the local area to avoid the roads over the weekend and to finish off a few (notably Stob Eas) mountains we haven’t done yet. Then after the bank holiday was […]
I can’t say that R and I are keen gardeners – in fact I am not that keen and to describe him as keen would be like saying that the late Iain Paisley was fond of Catholics. So the garden has got much scruffier and more wildlife friendly (that is a nice way of putting […]
R and I have a term for the typical weather in this area, which is “Goily”. On a goily day the wind sweeps over Beinn Bheula from the west, and brings waves of cloud, rain and sunshine alternately with it. The picture doesn’t do it justice, but yesterday we must have had at least ten […]
I’ve been having a look around at all the things I have missed while I have been out of circulation in the big city – it is funny how you almost immediately lose contact with the rhythms of nature when you go away from it for a while. All kinds of new things are out […]
I think this is the longest time I have ever been away from writing this blog. The last two weeks have been absolutely frenetic as R and I have been organizing an IT Security conference (BSides Edinburgh). I’d like to say “never again” and in fact this time last week I was saying just that, […]
Shortly after we moved in here we saw an otter on the webcam over the pond (it was actually around this time of year). We didn’t see him again over the next few months and then we had to give up on “Pond Cam” because the network wouldn’t support it and it kept crashing “Shed Cam”. […]
I bought R some super large hot dogs which he didn’t think much to. So with half the packet left over, I decided to put them out for the badgers. This was the result, but not quite what we were expecting (click on the picture to see the video). I’ve no idea where the black […]
