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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My Mum’s 85th Birthday is on 27th April – exactly two weeks after my operation. At this point I will be in a temporary cast and the advice (at least as far as I can see from the Internet) is to do as little activity as possible until the wound has been checked and the […]
A sheep with her lamb. They have been with us a few days – as ever with sheep invaders, we really hope they stay. They could live here in peace and harmony, avoiding becoming lamb chops, and in return we could get our lawn kept short for us. Also I in general like sheep. Less […]
I’ve been doing some more painting. My latest project was going to be based on a picture of Helensburgh R saw on a heritage website about passenger transport on the Clyde. The plan was to do a kind of blend between two pictures – the old and the new. This is the old photo – […]
J pointed out that my post about soda bread yesterday had been crashed by this photo. The cats must have crept in and done it with their paws while I was out of the room. The depiction is of the new bed I’ve set up in my office for when I am off my feet. […]
A lovely soda bread loaf. 250g white plain flour 250g wholemeal plain flour 1tsp bicarb 1tsp salt rosemary leaves finely chopped 400ml buttermilk (I used fresh milk with a bit of lemon juice in it to curdle it). Mix the dry ingredients together. Mix in the buttermilk to make a softish dough (don’t kneed it […]
I can hardly believe this letter we received today from the Council. Apparently we have been “selected” with no input from us to be part of a Wildcat Reintroduction Zone. We’ve been sent an almost threatening letter about making sure our cats don’t interfere with the reintroduced wildcats. I am so outraged that I am […]
This is what yesterday – 30th March looked like. Basically it was sunny all day. We made 50.2 KW, used 30.8 and sold 19.2 back to the grid. At the average rate of sale via Octopus that is £2.88 (in practice, because of the flexible tariff we are on and the presence of the battery […]
Saphy would like to introduce you to her Easter Project “Destroy the newly washed and ironed bedspread”. Saphy and the bedmat
R bought me a dark chocolate Easter Egg (after only a few hints from me). I am really not fond of milk chocolate, or worse still the abomination which is white chocolate. Amber admired the egg too. A little black magic from a magic black cat…
Yesterday I bought R a large Thorntons’ Easter Egg, complete with an inset box of chocolates. He greatly admired it and I reminded him that it wasn’t to be opened “until Easter”. This morning, I noticed that the box was open and all the chocolates had gone. R claims he had obeyed my instructions because […]
