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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Jan 31st, 2015

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Jamie must be one hell of a guy…

N & J are coming for dinner today and I thought I would make one of Jamie Oliver’s ’30 minute meals’ – in this case Swedish fishcakes with salsa, roast potatoes and alfafa salad. It is a lovely recipe and it all looks very nice (uncooked so far) but I really find it hard to […]

Jan 29th, 2015

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Fun in the Snow

More heavy snow overnight. Early this morning R and I cleared the drive which was quite a major task as there was about five inches on it and it is over 70m long and on quite a steep slope. We do know from previous bitter experience though that if we let it build up at […]

Jan 26th, 2015

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Don’t challenge cats….

I was getting a bit melancholic about our cats the other day. They are now nearly thirteen and I was thinking that they were slowing down and getting old. So I mentioned to R that Schrodi hadn’t had a mouse in ages and Tora wasn’t going off to the village any more, so they were […]

Jan 26th, 2015

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Wildlife back in force

I’ve been a bit concerned over the last few weeks that we haven’t been seeing so much wildlife around… During the cold spell we haven’t been seeing any of the nocturnal visitors we had this time last year. But over the last couple of days as the snow has melted and things have warmed up, […]

Jan 24th, 2015

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RSPB Birdwatch

I just contributed to the RSPB Birdwatch project. Unlike last year the website seemed to withstand the strain of all the contributors and did not go down in the middle of the survey (or at least not while I was filling the survey in). We do seem to have less birds than last year here […]

Jan 21st, 2015

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Cows in the snow

I thought this was quite a touching image of the local bull and his harem. He is very gentle and will let you walk right past you without any reaction. I sometimes feel a bit sorry for the Highland Cows being out in all weathers. They are obviously well designed for the conditions however – […]

Jan 13th, 2015

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Snow Scape

It has been snowing off and on all day today. The hills look quite spectacular but it has been exceedingly cold. This afternoon I walked over to the shop at the holiday camp and got some good photos, including one of a species of duck I haven’t seen before. We also saw a sheep in […]

Jan 12th, 2015

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Be prepared….

In common with a lot of other people in the Highlands we lost power overnight on Friday. In our case we were lucky enough to get it back by 7pm, though many other people were out for three whole days. During this outage we really discovered how woefully unprepared we actually were. We didn’t have […]

Jan 11th, 2015

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Credit where credit is due

BT take a lot of flak about lack of response to logged issues… I have to say that they entirely exceeded expectations with regard to our most recent outage. Overnight on Thursday the huge storm toppled a tree into the Donich and completely snapped the telephone cable. We logged the fault with our ISP (Andrews […]