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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Days are getting a bit longer and commensurately our solar generation is improving. As of 5pm we’ve made more than 9kwh and it is still not quite finished for the day. Having said this, it was moderately sunny today as against yesterday when it was really really dreich and we made nearly nothing. This means […]
I read an article yesterday which simply amazed me. The original Winnie-the-Pooh book is now in the public domain in spite of the efforts of the Disney Corporation to keep control of it. “The house at Pooh Corner” and associated content, including Tigger will not come out of copyright until 2026. But Disney still own […]
R and I took the decision when we got the girls that they would have free range of the garden during daylight hours – but the flap would be closed when it got dark. This is partially because we are nervous about their interactions with badgers and martens, but the main reason is that the […]
Saphy just loves J. He has been over here for a few days and she has been sitting on his knee a lot. When she is not coorying up to him she is sitting on my craft bench or on her special cushion gazing at him adoringly. I think R is a bit upset because […]
I had my family over for a meal at the weekend and as is our tradition we had some fun activities. This year the theme was “Asia”. We had :- Quiz about Asia Noodle grabbing game Asian Poem Haiku writing. These were the Haiku people came up with – I won’t grace my mother’s “effort” […]
When we put the sound insulation into the wall between the two offices (needed to muffle the noise of R’s meetings) – we never replaced the radiators in the two rooms. Basically they had never worked properly because they were on a different thermostat from the rest of the house. The idea was that in […]
Saphy discovered Amber’s clones – Bumble and Casper today. For a young and lithe pussy cat who is so good at catching prey items – she is surprisingly clumsy, always rolling off chairs. What she lacks in one respect however, she makes up for in another – she is a champion ottoman destroyer. I have […]
I make the mistake of reading the news – sometimes I wish I didn’t. Everything seems to be in a sad decline. I wouldn’t wish to comment on peoples’ customs so I will stick with the times part. I grew up in 1970s in a village near Carlisle. My father was a mid-ranking Civil Servant […]
Another glorious day today – doubtless tomorrow (Sat) will be awful. On the way back from our walk we spotted some odd poo in the drive. It looks to me like a deer – just from the obvious rowan berry content. We haven’t seen any deer at all since last autumn when a medium sized […]
After several weeks of miserable weather – the kind of pouring rain/wind in your face combo which Argyll in winter specializes in – things seem to have picked up. For the past couple of days it has been bright and frosty with a sprinkling of frost. We walked up through the cow field this morning […]
