Mar 20th, 2025
Read MoreA painful placename
R saw this sign on his travels in Switzerland (chance would be a fine thing). It sounds like a rather painful place to live.
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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Mar 19th, 2025
Read MoreA healthy vegan sandwich
R is leading a training course this week (while J and I are slaving away in the garden, R is dealing with the unimportant triviality of making money). I made him a nice healthy sandwich for his lunch. Homemade “8 grain flour” rolls with homemade humous, green pesto (shop bought I am afraid) and spring […]
Mar 18th, 2025
Read MoreWork for the night is coming
One of my favourite books is “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” and one of the best bits in it is when the downtrodden workmen start singing “Work for the night is coming…” in front of the boss and his client. The hypocrite boss who is a real whitened sepulchre sort of “Christian” doesn’t dare stop them […]
Mar 17th, 2025
Read MoreCat and Coo
A few years ago R gave me “Heather the Heilan’ Coo. She was handmade by chainsaw by a local craftsman down beside Loch Eck. Today Saphy sat on top of her for quite some time, but try as we might we couldn’t get her to look at the camera. Since she had her bladder operation […]
Mar 16th, 2025
Read MoreMr Toad
J and I were working at painting the summerhouse when we saw this little fellow. Of course we have seen many, many frogs around the pond, and even the odd newt, but never a toad. The way you can definitely tell them apart is that whilst frogs hop along, toads walk. As you can see […]
Mar 13th, 2025
Read MoreIn which Lucky sees the vet
Lucky has a flea allergy for which he has to have prescription tablets. Due to some nonsensical legislation, even though he was never seen by the vet when they were prescribed in the first place, he now needs to physically be “seen” by a vet every six months to continue to receive them. Before Christmas […]
Mar 12th, 2025
Read MoreR’s New Bed
Today R got a new bed. The old one had been a Saphy project in more ways than one. Firstly she had ripped the shit out of the headboard, and secondly she had had more than one bird under there over the last year or so. Although we had managed in general to either rescue […]
Mar 10th, 2025
Read MoreA Beautiful Walk
R and I walked out to Drimsynie Beg today. The spring sunshine was brilliant and we could hear a distant woodpecker. Some great views over towards Ben Donich We didn’t meet a single soul the whole way there – on the way back we were passed by a solitary power walker.
Mar 8th, 2025
Read MoreSpring has sprung
R and I went for a walk this afternoon and saw the first primroses out. The frogs were out in force in our pond when we got back. This was the closest I could get without scaring them off, but there were lots of them busily making little frogs with much churning of the water. […]
Mar 6th, 2025
Read MoreBeware of the Dogs
R and I walked out along the riverside path today. When out walking yesterday we noticed that they are doing forestry work on the upper path and in places they have “improved” the track by putting huge lumps of stone in all the pot holes. Walking on very rough terrain down hill is one thing […]