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 the cats on Mother’s Day. Saphy and Amber are on an old stone wall in our garden, which is actually the only remnant of the previous house on this site. Lucky is disappearing through the gate, so only his tail is visible – my guess is that he is in hot pursuit of […]
The frogs are back in the streams and our pond. With them comes the usual contingent of herons. There was also an egg shell by the side of one of the paths Sad to say, there was another sign of spring. A trail of feathers down the hall led to R’s bed and the dead […]
I was fully prepared for us to have to buy a new cooker, but the local electrician managed against all odds to fix the existing one. The reason for the short was very clear. This one was under the cooker and had been there for some time as there were quite a few poos in […]
Today is Sunday so this was my take on Sunday lunch without a cooker. Chop an onion and two large carrots. Add 500g stewing steak in pieces and a packet of high quality sausages cut in half. Take some potatoes and par cook them in the microwave (I use my microwave steamer). Put all the […]
So following last week’s cooker explosion, we are currently “cookerless”. Many people would have given up and lived on ready meals and sandwiches. but not me. We have a microwave, an air fryer and a slow cooker, so I have been experimenting with making full meals without an oven, hob or grill. A complication is […]
My Mum has done well on present choosing of late. As well as the brilliant rice/slow cooker she gave me for my birthday, she also gave R a great beanie for Christmas (note to the elderly this is an American term for a bobble hat). You may wonder why I am enthusiastic about the hat […]
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We moved the camera to the floor of the shed to see if we could work out Ratty’s mode of ingress. Sure enough, he has gnawed his way through the door at the bottom, enabling him to get into the main shed from the space in the foundations where he clearly lives (click on the […]
