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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Apr 12th, 2016

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Eight Plait Loaf

I had a go at Paul Holywood’s famous eight plait loaf (which many of the bakers on the Bake Off) struggled with. It actually turned out pretty well and wasn’t as difficult as I had thought it would be (though I appreciate that it must be a great deal worse when you are being filmed […]

Apr 11th, 2016

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Cat on a Hot Shed Roof

Schrodi decided to use me as a ladder to climb on to the shed roof. He then spent five minutes polying around before wanting a lift down in case he hurt his paws on the nasty sharp gravel.

Apr 8th, 2016

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Lovely lunch at Gamba

I took my Mum to Gamba in Glasgow for lunch today to celebrate her birthday later this month. I chose it because it was the second best rated restaurant in Glasgow on Trip Advisor (and also you could book it online). I was going to have prawn cocktail (seems to be back in fashion again) […]

Apr 8th, 2016

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The Tick Bags are back again

These two deer studied me carefully when I opened the kitchen door, and then went back to eating the grass (they haven’t had a go at the daffodils yet this year but there is still time). Later on R saw a yearling on his own – I would guess that Mummy has finally given him […]

Apr 8th, 2016

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Happy Birthday Lads!

The cats are fourteen today. It seems just like yesterday that we brought them home from Preston to Edinburgh. The breeder kindly gave them their worming tablet before we set off, and then when we got to Carlisle the M74 was closed and we had to detour via A7. It took ages, the tablet kicked […]

Apr 5th, 2016

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Lovely Evening

It turned out nice late this afternoon after a dismal Sunday and Monday. I went for a walk out towards Coran Lochan and it was very pretty indeed on the high path. The days for going through the cow field are numbered for this year though – as it is the worst place for flies, […]

Apr 2nd, 2016

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Beinn Bhuidhe

R and I tackled Beinn Bhuidhe today. This is another one of these (to an English speaker) strange Gaelic spellings, and is pronounced very approximately “Vu-Yid”. It means ‘Yellow Mountain’. This is probably the least climbed of the local Munros as it is a long way from any of the others, which means that if […]

Mar 31st, 2016

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Edinburgh and Celts

I decided to put my reporting day for this week off until tomorrow and have a day in town. The Celts exhibition is on in Edinburgh at the moment, and as I missed seeing it when it was on in London last year, I thought I would make the effort and go and see it […]

Mar 30th, 2016

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Some new Friends

I was heading out for a walk yesterday when I noticed two new potential friends in the field in front of our house (this is the field which was supposed to have been going to be made into a shinty pitch for the village, but which is so badly drained at the moment that the […]

Mar 29th, 2016

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Painting of our Waterfalls

My Mum painted me a lovely picture of the waterfalls at the “Meeting of the Waters” about a mile from here. This was as they looked when we walked up there on Christmas Day this year. Actually about every picture in our house was done by my mother, so we have a couple of fantastic […]