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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 […]

Mar 17th, 2016

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Beinn Lochain

Again the misty morning cleared to dazzling sunshine by lunchtime today, and I decided to fulfil a long desired wish and climb Beinn Lochain (the one to the right of Beinn Bheula as you look across the loch from the village). Beinn Lochain is a Graham at 703m but is moderately challenging because there is […]

Sep 15th, 2015

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Strachur to Lochgoilhead on the Cowal Way

Today we took the lunchtime Dunoon bus to Strachur, and walked back along the Cowal way. We’ve been wanting to do this one since we moved in, but it is a bit awkward because it is really too far (9 miles each way) to easily walk out and back, and because the buses don’t run […]

Sep 7th, 2015

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Cowal Way Blues…

And further to my last post I can’t resist commenting on the woeful condition of the Cowal Way. I’m not expecting it to be a manicured path with steps and railings (in fact I would hate it to be like that), but at the moment it is hardly a path at all, and the guide […]

Sep 7th, 2015

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At last Beinn Bheula

R and I seemed fated never to make it up the mountain that dominates our skyline (Bheula to the front, Donich to the back). Last spring we set off to do it and made it to the bottom of the first assent before realizing that it was way too cold to have worn shorts. Then […]

Sep 2nd, 2015

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A bit more time lapse

Occurred to me that it has been a while since we had any time lapse photography on the site, so this evening I got the camera out to show sunset over Beinn Bheula (click on the photo to see the video). It really has been a nice evening and I have been strimming (well brushcutting […]

Aug 30th, 2015

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Some fantastic views tonight

Sun just going down and some lovely views out to the mountains… So annoying after the less than stellar views from the Cobbler today, that tomorrow it is apparently going to be lovely and I will be working….

Jul 19th, 2015

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Very pretty evening…

Just went outside for a photo of some very nice cloud formations over Beinn Bheula (R says it looks as though it has a hat on). There were a few midgies – but nothing like this time last year when you wouldn’t have been out there for more than a few seconds before clouds of […]