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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R and I were discussing snow on Beinn Bheula. This is the Corbett directly in front of our house and is 771m high. There has been no snow on it yet as we move from autumn to winter, and we couldn’t remember exactly how often there was snow in the second week of November. So […]
For anyone who doesn’t know what a “purrito” is, it is something which happens to very naughty cats who won’t take their medicine. Saphy has a urinary infection, and yesterday R had to take her to the vet in Dunoon. She was not good on the way there or the way back, or when we […]
Back in Sept 2023 I walked the Inverlounin Loop which was one of the two walks R and I did nearly every day. Towards the end of the month I had the fatal slip on the top path part of this walk which finally did for my ankle and let me in for a year […]
As part of my further investigation into ultra-processed food, R and I tried a taste test. We are both fond of yoghurt. I eat natural Skyr with fresh fruit – ingredients: milk, fruit and R eats raspberry Ski – Ingredients – Low Fat Yogurt (Milk), Sugar, raspberry Puree from Concentrate (2.5%), Rice Starch, Natural Flavourings, […]
I walked over to the holiday village at the other side of the loch today (I was once told off for calling it a “holiday camp”). There is a swimming pool there and it is open weekends so I wanted to see how far it was. It turned out to be 1.5 miles. Then I […]
Now a veritable palace has appeared. Our new garage was installed on to its base today – it took all of three hours as it is made of prefabricated panels. A straggly hedge was cut back to make room for it and to ensure that there was still room for the Calor lorry to make […]
R bought me a projector and Apple TV box for my birthday. Today we tried it out in the lounge; we removed a couple of paintings from the wall and projected the video on to it. We watched the BBC’s “Asia” program and it was fantastic – the projector is a real cinema like experience […]
Back in August R was speaking at a conference in Sheffield. This particular conference always seems to give a little tube of seeds away with the freebies in the “goodie bag” (normally it is pens, bottle openers etc). Last year I grew the seeds and they turned out to be some quite successful chilis. This […]
My birthday today – as it was a Monday I actually celebrated it yesterday. R took me to the spa at the Cameron House by Loch Lomond side. This was very nice of him as spas are definitely not his bag. Rather unwillingly he went in all the different heat treatments and the Jacuzzi, but […]
Nearly up to the top of the main hill. Once I get there (hopefully in a few days time) – I can have a go at the full Inverlounin loop walk. It is quite hard going on these paths because they are simultaneously steep and rough. Very appropriately, 3 miles is also 10,000 steps. We […]
