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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Moving as we are to a huge Victorian house, we have a slight furniture problem. We do have some lovely Victorian and Edwardian furniture of J’s which is currently in storage, but this is not by any manner of means enough to furnish a 7 bedroom house. So what we are left with is:- Furniture […]
We went to see my Mum in Rhu for Easter. My brother cooked lunch (a very Spanish take on lentil soup and chicken Basque) and then we did the egg painting that has become a bit of a tradition. R (as usual) completely refused to get into the swing of things and wouldn’t even have […]
Mark Twain (an author for whom I have a great deal of admiration) said this:[ “We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with […]
R is always munching on Stoats health bars. These are ok nutrionally but are expensive and always taste rather synthetic to me. So yesterday I made some of my own. 200g Quaker oats (from Cupar no less!) mixed with 150g mixed dried fruit and nuts and cinamon to taste. Add 60g smooth peanut butter, 50g […]
The cats are naughty in different ways. Least naughty this week is Lucky (2 on the naughtiness scale) who has mooched for food and persistently slept on J’s bed. Second on the naughtiness scale with a 6 is Saphy who has brought in several prey items, one of which was eviserated in a very horrible […]
I’ve now been right through our attic starting to clear things up for our move. It is amazing what you can collect in 11 years. I will both compliment and condemn R by saying that there was much more stuff of his than there was of mine. The condemnation is that like me he buys […]
We had the survey of Donich Lodge done – believe it or not we got all ‘1’s (meaning no fault found) on our Home Buyers’ Report. I will give myself, R and J a lot of credit for this as we have fixed lots of things that we right out of our comfort zone. In […]
Another lovely day today. Saphy loves the great outdoors, but unlike Lucky, she is a fair weather girl. After a whole winter of hardly putting a foot outside the door, she has been revelling in the sunshine and following me around the garden. She even climbed a tree – something I have never seen her […]
R and I went all the way up to the top of the waterfalls today. I first went to the bridge at the base a few weeks ago, but this was my first go up (and down) the very steep and rough steps to the top since my operation. Here I am looking triumphant. Then […]
Amber actually ventured outside on her own today. She didn’t go far but she had a little wander (and ate some grass, doubtless for future vomiting up on a bed) and then lay on the doorstep enjoying the sun for over an hour. Amber must have had something very bad happen to her in the […]
