We have quite a few fruit trees in our garden. One of them is an eating apple tree which last year had basket loads of small delicious apples on it. I’ve been carefully watching it over the last few days to see if the fruit was ripe. The day before yesterday I thought it was […]
We were very happy to recently have some visitors from Australia who had a family connection with the ‘old’ Donich Lodge (former house on the site where we now live). We took the opportunity to show them round, including the wall in the back garden which is all that now remains of the former house. […]
We went on an expedition up to Tignabruaich yesterday. The weather forecast for the weekend had been just plain wrong as on Saturday (when it was supposed to have been nice, it rained off and on), whilst on Sunday morning when it had been supposed to be grey – it was actually sunny. So on […]
This weekend is the last one of the Scottish school summer holidays, and last year we saw everything become much quieter locally after this point. Particularly the road into the village (single track) tends to become much less busy as we move into September. I don’t want to be accused of being nasty to our […]
Schrodi has just come in minus his collar for the second time in about six weeks. Just to explain for anyone who hasn’t read the full back story to this blog; our two cats have tracking collars which come from USA (www.thecatlocator.com) and enable us to locate them within a range of about half a […]
I had an idea the other night. When we were at Aigas last year we watched badgers from a hide which had wide open windows right close to them (so close you hear them hoovering up the nuts) and glancing out of the kitchen window just as it was getting dark, I saw one of […]
My mum brought me a little boudoir chair for my bedroom the other day. Before it was even in the house, Schrodi was trying to sit on it in the driveway, but now it is ensconced in the bedroom, he gave it a serious baptism by sleeping on it for several hours. I wouldn’t have […]
I forgot to mention in my post about York that we saw a familiar name on a sign – and sure enough – there was our local restaurant… I love seafood and like the (original) Loch Fyne Oyster Bar but I do draw the line at travelling 200+ miles to eat seafood which has travelled […]
R and I just got back from York with my brother N and my friend J. J is lucky enough to have a birthday in August, so the four of us always seem to end up doing something nice for it (last year we took a boat out on Loch Goil). R and I have […]
My bird book describes the Jay as a ‘shy woodland bird’. I just went into the kitchen and there were six immature but large jays around the feeding area; two were clinging to the fat balls we put out for the tits, and one was hanging from the bottom of the peanut feeder. Last year […]
