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Dec 24th, 2014

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T’was the night before Christmas

Well that is my Christmas preparations about complete. Thanks to my Mum doing a buffet supper down at her cottage, I am well ahead of the game. The presents are under the tree, the table is laid (and the door to the dining room firmly closed because cats, white tablecloths and crystal glasses don’t mix),the […]

Dec 21st, 2014

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Interesting Wildlife night

Last night was an interesting one on Shed Cam. I had been getting a bit worried because we had not seen our badgers for a few days. Last night they were back (about 10 times during the night), but unfortunately although I ordered 50kg of nuts for them over a week ago they have not […]

Dec 20th, 2014

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Cats and Cards

I put a row of Christmas cards on the mantelpiece this week, and, perhaps foolishly, decorated it with some tinsel. Today I have had both cats up there. Their modus operandi is to push all the cards onto the floor and then attack the tinsel. I don’t mind this too much with the cards but […]

Dec 19th, 2014

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Donich Cottage

My parents, my brother and R’s sister always come to us for Christmas. Last year our house was literally bursting at the seams because although we have four bedrooms, two of them are used as offices. It really felt as though there was nowhere to go for a bit of peace and quiet, also there […]

Dec 11th, 2014

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Christmas Tree

I put my Christmas Tree up yesterday with a thunderstorm raging in the background – very bizarre. I confused my Mum into thinking I was super organized with the picture of the tree on the blog last week – that was last year’s tree which had a gold theme – this year it is silver. […]

Dec 10th, 2014

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More storms…

More storms. Right now it is hail accompanied by thunder and lightning. The ground outside looks snowy in the picture – but it is in fact a layer of hail so thick that it is lying on the ground in drifts. R and I braved walking down to the front at high tide to see […]

Dec 9th, 2014

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Storm today

Don’t think I have seen rain like today in a very long time (if ever). Not the snow that MSN has been forecasting for ‘tomorrow’ every day for the last week – just high winds and absolutely torrential downpours. Luckily I got our shopping in in Dunoon this morning because this is classic weather for […]

Dec 8th, 2014

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Wimps

Back in the distant days of summer, R and I promised that we would faithfully go for a walk every day in the winter – even if the weather was foul. Reason being that last winter we put on an alarming amount of weight through lack of exercise (and to be honest – overeating!). This […]

Nov 28th, 2014

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Deer me….

Over the last few days we have had some new visitors – a female roe deer and her nearly grown fawn. We’ve had red deer in the garden many times, but I think these are our first roes, and they are very beautiful. Yesterday afternoon they were grazing on the back lawn (they seem to […]

Nov 26th, 2014

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Setting sun

There were some amazing views out over the mountains as the sun went down this afternoon. I can’t make my mind up which season this area looks best in – every one of them is beautiful in its own way. Before we moved here, R and I discussed whether it would be possible to get […]