I’ve been doing some brambling in the evenings this week, trying to get a decent amount together to make enough jelly to last a few months. We have quite a lot of brambles along the edges of the garden, and I worked my way up the whole left side of the front garden and gathered […]
R went off for a rare meeting in Edinburgh and I went for the daily walk on my own today. When I left the house just before 8am – I couldn’t see the few hundred yards to the houses at Donich Park (yipee!) for thick fog. I walked up via the waterfalls, and by the […]
Not sure if it is at all related to yesterday’s Supermoon, but I have never in my life seen anything like the colours in the sky at sunset tonight. It was one of those sights that looked so amazing that photos of it don’t look quite real, but more as though someone with a rather […]
Last night there was a ‘Supermoon’ combined with a lunar eclipse – apparently this only happens every 30 years. Unfortunately the eclipse part was due to happen between 1am and 6am – so seeing it would mean getting up in the middle of the night… The Supermoon itself was up by 9:30pm, and by 10:30pm […]
When I was a child, my family and I would go bramble picking several times around the start of autumn. Between the four of us we would gather a serious amount (I’m talking 40lb or so), but at the cost of our hands being scratched to bits. Then my dad would make bramble jelly, and […]
The wildlife in this area just goes from strength to strength. Yet another mammal added itself to the long list of ones seen locally, not by us (unfortunately), but by our neighbours over the river. This time it was a young weasel, very sweet looking in the photos, but actually for its size one of […]
R wanted the day off today, so I left him to code and nurse his sore legs from yesterday and set off to do a walk on my own which I have fancied for a while. We’ve walked the Duke’s path as far as Corran Lochan at the end of the peninsula a few times […]
Day two of our ‘staycation’ and the weather dawned quite a bit better. We set out to climb The Brack (a Corbett) and Cnoc Coinnich (1m off being a Corbett – so a very big Graham). My full account of the trip is here – http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=56212 but basically we had a very hard but good […]
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 […]
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 […]
