Aug 29th, 2023
Read MoreSpectacular sunset
Lovely sunset over Bheula tonight. It is very hot down south, so hopefully it will cool down before we go off to London.
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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Aug 24th, 2023
Read MoreCloudy skies
Today was one of those “Goily” days where the sun comes and goes. Our solar production can literally go from 12kw to 0.5 within the space of 2 minutes. Having said this, we are doing pretty well with the solar in general – we have produced more electricity in total than we have used since […]
Aug 17th, 2023
Read MoreChili peppers
These were ready for harvest today. I have been nurturing them for months now, and in the end I got about ten chilis off them. This was growing them indoors under grow lights (outdoors they never even flowered), so sadly they are not worth the trouble of growing here. Over to ASDA for our future […]
Aug 6th, 2023
Read MoreVisit to Glasgow
It’s been a while since I went to the big city. With one thing and another, nearly four years in fact. So considering we have a holiday in London booked for Sept, I thought I had better get some practice in by going to Glasgow first. It was J’s birthday on 6th so we made […]
Aug 5th, 2023
Read MoreWhich way up?
Part of this is the hillside, and part is its reflected image in the loch. But the question is – which way up does the picture go? I have never seen the loch as completely mirror-like as it was today.
Aug 1st, 2023
Read MoreR’s Totem Pole
This is R’s Totem pole (it is literally a curtain pole in his office). The “scalps” adorning it are the speaker’s lanyards he has acquired from all the conferences he has given talks at for the last ten years or so. He is (rightly) very proud of it – but to me there is something […]
Jul 25th, 2023
Read MoreLucky again
We have christened a little black and white cat which keeps visiting us “Lucky”. She first started coming regularly a couple of months ago, and at first she was so timid that we couldn’t get to within 50m of her. But we have partially “tamed” her, and she will now come into the hall for […]
Jul 20th, 2023
Read MoreIris
Iris by the pond today. We are going to have to do something about the pond because it is increasingly overgrown. The trouble is that getting it properly fixed professionally would cost a fortune because the stream that used to feed it inexplicably dried up. We think tree roots cracked the pipe it was running […]
Jul 14th, 2023
Read MoreA visit to Helensburgh
I went on a little trip to Helensburgh today. The weather was really lovely and Helensburgh was looking very fetching. The thing about British holiday towns is they look great when the weather is fine… But are surpassingly awful as soon as it isn’t (and it very often isn’t). The nastiest day I remember was […]