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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I’ve ditched the crutches/wheelchair now and am walking in the Aircast boot. The only part that is a little painful if I stand too long is the place in my heel where the original screws came out. Most of the scars have healed up now – there is one bit left which was where the […]
R is off on his yearly jaunt to New York next week. Saphy has decided to join him. She really does have a thing about suitcases, as she wanted to come to hospital in my case too. R goes to New York. I go to Ross Hall. Actually I am joking a bit here because […]
Saphy spends an inordinately large amount of time on my bed. At the moment I have to do my strength and flexibility exercises lying down, and about any time I go to either make the bed or do the exercises she is there. Either I chip her off in which case I feel guilty, or […]
I really do love plum crumble – but only made with real Victoria plums. Around this time of year I get them from the local greengrocer and make a simple topping of wholemeal flour, muesli and a little butter and sugar. I don’t put anything like the amount of either of the “naughty” ingredients in […]
We are thinking of getting a garage put up. The house originally had an integral double garage, but our need to have two separate offices was greater than that for the garage and we had it converted back in 2017. Now we realize that we could do with one, because apart from the car sitting […]
I can’t really go out on to the lawn and pick apples at the moment, but I can see through the door that the ones on my favourite tree are getting ripe, so I got R to bring one in for me to see whether they are ready for picking. Looking at it, I think […]
I took two cartons of chili con carne which I made before my operation out of the freezer today to have for our lunch. It was not until I had decanted it into a Pyrex dish and put it in the oven, that I realized that one of the plastic cartons had shattered at the […]
This morning we couldn’t find Amber. This was very unusual as she only has a few sleeping places – R’s bed, my bed and occasionally R’s office chair. This morning she was not in any of them, and we had a moment of worry. Then we checked the web camera in the hall to find […]
I went back to Ross Hall yesterday to have my 47 staples out. This was not a particularly pleasant experience as the staples look rather like upholstery staples, and the tool for removing them looks like, well put it this way, I have one in my sewing kit. It is only mildly painful, but the […]
Well, cripples (me at the moment) and broken things (picture frame) anyway. The quote in the title is one of my favourite episodes of Game of Thrones (my favourite TV show of all time). R loved it too, but in his mind it was so totally ruined by the last two series (7 and 8) […]
