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Sep 14th, 2016

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Two Squirrels one Feeder

The more innocent readers may not get the reference in the title (don’t worry about it Mum)….. Anyway – these two squirrels were very funny. We have a new peanut feeder that they have had a bit of difficulty getting used to but finally seemed to have mastered. It is a deal bigger than the […]

Sep 6th, 2016

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Jelly

After ‘panicking’ because someone was poaching all the brambles, the season got into full swing this week and there are actually so many now that twenty people could go at them without making a serious dent. It is really a shame because I have now made 18 small jars of jelly, have processed and frozen […]

Sep 3rd, 2016

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Brambles

There are a lot of brambles (blackberries to southerners) around this area, and every year I make jelly from them, plus freeze several boxes for use over the year in assorted pies, crumbles etc. In previous years no one else seemed to have come after them much, with the exception of one elderly gentleman who […]

Aug 31st, 2016

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No witches here…

We’ll be sorted against any witchcraft activity here this year – I have never seen anything like the rowan trees around the village. They are dripping with berries, to the extent that some of the branches are dragging down to the ground with the weight. I’ve never made any use of them in cooking myself, […]

Aug 30th, 2016

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Back to normal

Well thank goodness that is all the excitement over with for the time being. Between work, new floors, visitors and R being away it has been chaotic here of late. So it was nice to have people, but also nice to get back to normal. I’m also going to do another “Clean” for the next […]

Aug 25th, 2016

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Nice few days

I’ve been frantically busy over the past week. Firstly we were having the carpet in the hall replaced with wood flooring. The sales guy told us it would take “two days at most” but when the men turned up to install it, turned out that they thought it would take five. So I was all […]

Aug 14th, 2016

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A la Recherche du pies perdu

In the rather turgid “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu” by Proust, the narrator dips a madeleine into a cup of tea and the smell and taste bring back a vivid memory of his childhood. I had a similar experience with a pie the other day (luckily it only has inspired me to write a […]

Aug 14th, 2016

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Up the Nanny Goat

This is not as rude as it sounds but refers to our walk this afternoon when we climbed “Cruach Nam Miseag” – rocky hill of the Nanny Goat. This is the one next to Beinn Bheula, and isn’t high enough to rate even as a Graham. Nonetheless I have often thought it would make a […]

Aug 12th, 2016

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Harvest

The autumn harvest has started with the plums. Last year we had about six in total – this year I have already picked more than 20lb. I’m having to pick them as soon as they are anything approaching ripe, because otherwise they are eaten by a combination of deer, jays and wasps, so rather than […]

Aug 9th, 2016

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A family of thieves….

Three red deer have moved into our garden. I think they are a mother, her fawn of this year, and a yearling stag who is presumably her fawn from last year. I guess he will be leaving her to look for his own herd soon as his antlers are just coming through. All three of […]