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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After several weeks of miserable weather – the kind of pouring rain/wind in your face combo which Argyll in winter specializes in – things seem to have picked up. For the past couple of days it has been bright and frosty with a sprinkling of frost. We walked up through the cow field this morning […]
Some videos of our local wildlife and a tribute video to our Bengal boys who unwillingly were moved from Livingston to here. I actually embedded these in the site this time instead of hosting them on Vimeo. Three Pine Martens Martens in daylight Badger and cat Cat defeats badger Sausages Night of the Nuts Sad […]
It is nearly 10 years since we moved to Lochgoilhead and many changes have taken place. Obviously the big one for us is that Tora and Schrodi grew old and died. But life goes on and we are now owned by Saphy and Amber. There have been some major changes in other areas which mostly […]
The first year we lived here (nearly ten years ago believe it or not), the weather was beautiful on our first day in the house. R had to go to a prearranged meeting in Edinburgh so I was left with Tora and Schrodi to start unpacking. Optimistically I though that we would have weeks of […]
Apparently these are foods of the 1970s/1980s which aren’t eaten much any more. As a child of the 1970s I remember most of these. 1) Grapefruit. Still around but you never see them served with the traditional half cherry and sugar. They also used to be grilled. My parents saved up Green Shield stamps to […]
When I was at school in Cumbria I had a friend who was fiercely proud of her Cumbrian ancestry. She taught me a few dialect words like “Marra” for friend – but most notably a couple of pieces of doggerel. The first one I came over on the Internet by mistake the other day – […]
We’d been going to do New Year here for my parents, brother, and J, but for various health and weather related reasons, it was cancelled. But actually R and I had a nice time just the two of us (four with the girls). We had some spaghetti carbonara and stood in my office for half […]
Today is R’s birthday and the official last day of Mousemas. I made him a little tree. People seem to know what he likes! It was burgers and chips for dinner. Given the choice of any food in world – R will chose burger and chips every time. Now he has his long awaited air […]
No evidence for which of the girls brought in the shrew today – but my money is on Saphy. There definitely seems to be a difference in intelligence between the rodents – mice/voles and the “predator” insectivore shrew. Voles are often DOA. Mice are frequently alive when brought in but seem to prefer hiding to […]
One vole and one bird today. I am trying to save sensibilities by not specifying the exact type of bird Saphy specializes in – but let’s just say it is not the very common chaffinch and leave it at that. J tried to go home on the bus today. He waited at the bus stop […]
