The loch shows an infinite variety of faces as the light hits it on different days.
Lucky used to be a stray girl but has now found her new identity as a Donich Lodge boy (the vet discovered he was male when we took “her” to be spayed). He would ask you to respect his new pronouns.
The high mountain pass over the Rest and be Thankful is the main route out of the village. Here it is in winter.
Spring sky over the mountain tops.
Sunset from our front door step.
A misty moon over the mountains as darkness falls.
View over towards the loch from near the summit of Cnoc Coinnich.
A rainbow appears in a clear interval between showers.
Lochgoilhead in the distance on a clear spring morning.
As the year turns, the mountains are white on most days.
Looking across the loch from the village, clouds form a band across the hills.
Tora and Schrodi our snow Bengal brothers used to live here. RIP both of you
A dragonfly pauses for a rest by the side of our pond.
The weather here can be appalling. Here gales and torrential rain have blocked one of the village’s few roads.
The colours on the mountains fade to muted browns as autumn approaches.
The Donich Water in one of its kinder moods as it runs through our garden.
One of a myriad insects pollinating our heather.
A group of wild haggis have made a den down by the river.
Our new Highland Tiger Saphy prowling her territory. She is a demon for the wildlife with her specialized prey item being shrews. She is not adverse to mice, voles or birds however.
This is Amber aka as Bramble. She is big, black, rather podgy and a bit of a scaredy cat. We had her cloned shortly after she arrived.
Although we don’t get much snow at loch level, the higher mountains are covered for five months or so of the year
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Lucky now sleeps in the room which used to belong to J. The case is my part packed one for hospital next week, and he sleeps behind it against the radiator and next to some rather nervous toys. It must be a dream to him having a warm soft place to sleep and unlimited Felix […]
R is away in London (again!). He normally feeds the cats and makes the coffee in the mornings, because Lucky (although largely domesticated now) is still suffering from some aggression issues. Specifically when he is “hangry” in the mornings, he has a tendency to swipe out at the legs and hands that are trying to […]
We bought Saphy a “spider on a rod” toy for Christmas. Amber is getting prawns, and Lucky is getting cream – but Saphy is not very food oriented. So I put the spider on top of the pile of presents ready for wrapping. Within five minutes she had found it and was trying to unwrap […]
As R is making the Christmas Dinner this year for the first time as I will have my arm in a sling, I (out of the goodness of my heart) sent him some detailed instructions as to how to prepare it and effectively run his kitchen and drinks service. For my trouble I got this […]
Bitterly cold today – it was -4C when taking photo, but some lovely views from the front door.
Changing J’s bed in the spare room today prior to him coming up for Christmas. Once the bottom sheet was on, Saphy decided this could be a good place to sleep. She also acquired a new ‘project’ to work on yesterday when R built me a new office chair. The old one was seven years […]
My Mum, J and I do the Jacqui Lawson Advent Calendar every year. I tried to get R into it a few years ago but it is not his cup of tea. The Jacqui Lawson website is great for sending HTML greetings cards by email, and every year she does an Advent Calendar – for […]
He is still as voracious as ever. One way and another he is cadging about 8 pouches of Felix a day out of us. This is way too much and he is now being cut down to one pouch per feed apart from overnight when he can keep on having two. He annoys me by […]
This was the homemade chowder we had for lunch today. Some people put smoked bacon in theirs, but I am not that keen on it, so I just leave it out. Served with a homemade cottage loaf. I use the breadmaker to make the dough (with my dodgy arm kneading dough would be very difficult). […]
Apparently along with humans suddenly having developed violent gluten and lactose allergies in the last ten years – cats are following the trend too and now “you shouldn’t give your cat milk”. I’ll put this one firmly in the category of “you shouldn’t let your cat go outside” as a big bunch of crap. I’ve […]
