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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This is me back on my personal food hobby horse again. I was making a dessert for a dinner party and one of the ladies is a vegan (sigh) – so I made an apple crumble. None of the ingredients are animal based apart from the fat in the crumble part, and the cream or […]
After I wrote that I thought “Fnarr, fnarr” which if any one remembers “Viz” which was the catch phrase for the immortal “Finbar Saunders and his double entendres” . The hole in the ground I am talking about now is the excavation work we have been having done for our garage base. Actually it is […]
I saw the consultant yesterday for what I hope was the final time. That was eight weeks from the operation and he had asked to see me two weeks early because the first set of X-Rays had looked good. I had more X-Rays and the good news was that this time the bones are in […]
You’ll remember the mystery hole in the garden which we were hoping might be the den of some aquatic creature? Well R brought the trail camera in and we got the photos off it… Here is some wildlife investigating the hole. And half entering in! It is Lucky. So from that I think we may […]
I washed R’s sheets and towels while he was away and put clean ones down on the stripped bed for ten minutes before coming back with the intention of making the bed. But Saphy was already on guard, making sure that everything was safe for her Lord’s return.
I was just reading an article about how people would pay “£15 for a takeaway pizza with no problem”, while they would demur at paying £15 for fish and chips. Actually the second one I do think is somewhat value for money as decent cod is expensive and the process of making real fish and […]
R and J were investigating the pond and found this hole in the bank. We wondered if it could possibly be an otter’s holt entrance (though apparently they normally go for around the roots of trees). We have seen an otter in the pond a couple of times but that was many years ago. R […]
The joke dessert from the cats’ birthday party came with the lines A riddle now to end our song And close the meal with something strong We’ll bring a present in a tray The same as we do every day. No one got this joke – they came up with answers like “a bird”. This […]
Our three cats do not know their birthdays (or perhaps better to say that we do not know their birthdays, as I don’t think cats are really that up on the whole concept). Saphy and Amber came to us from Cats Protection as “sisters” but I am fairly sure they are not biologically related. Amber […]
Rather like some pornographic pictures, you can rotate this one without ever working out which way up it is supposed to go. Saphy is actually a naughty girl and getting naughtier. As well as her ongoing mega-project to destroy all the furniture in the house (two examples of many below), she has actually been […]
