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 came into my office. I have a mirror near the floor which I use to monitor my progress with my foot. The two girls have never shown the least bit of interest in it, but all of a sudden Lucky caught sight of himself in it. He watched himself intently for a while, and […]
Well after all our precautions there was basically no storm here – just a bit of wind and rain (nothing to compare with last year thank God). R and I walked down by the river and there was only one small tree down. The only other thing that we saw “down” was this – a […]
Out of the house again and walked round the community garden and the river walk (1.5m). I was hobbling a bit by the end of it, but I’m making progress. The weather was really beautiful and our plan today had been to go to the Tree Shop at the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar and buy […]
Ye Saga Continueth… Now having formally discarded the boot, my target is to be walking five miles a day (ok – most days) by Christmas. Actually, by a sheer co-incidence, a further ten weeks from the second operation takes us to Christmas, so this will be five months from the operation and I am hoping […]
As you will have probably gathered, my nickname is Maz (this was from when my brother was a little boy and couldn’t say “Marion”. He said “Mazion” instead – so Maz is short for that). I made this progress chart when I came out of hospital after the operation. It is probably very sad, but […]
Saphy making herself comfortable ready for a good night’s sleep. Little does she know she is not getting one because that is my pillow she is on. In about 90 seconds she is getting relegated to the foot of the bed. Amber is in the room but not in the photo as she is in […]
I walked down to the end of the hydro road and back today. It was 0.7 miles there and back so that is me somewhat on the way to my target of “five miles by Christmas”. It has been a nice day and after babying me back to the house, J went on a further […]
I managed to rescue a little robin from Saphy today. She had brought it in to the house and was crouching over it in a menacing fashion. I picked it up and could feel it moving so I shut Saphy in the room and took the robin outside. I stood with it on the palm […]
I am walking pretty well in my shoes now, although I do not officially discard the boot entirely until next week (ten weeks after my revision operation). I walked most of the way down to the main road along the “hydro road” (which is what R and I call the bit they tarmacked when they […]
R recently went to a conference in Slovenia. He managed not to visit the famous Ljubljana Dragon bridge (in the great tradition of R never visiting any famous monuments in the many exotic places he visits). He did, however meet up with a friend from the Internet he had known for years but had never […]
