Mar 5th, 2025
Read MoreFrogs are back
There is frog spawn in every ditch and pond. Sadly our pond doesn’t get many any more – I think I know the culprit, one of these gentlemen flew off as R and I passed him.
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 4th, 2025
Read MoreNight time activities
What sort of activities you may ask? Particularly as R was away in London. Cat activities. First of all just after I went to bed, Amber joined me for a night-time purr. She has a loud and penetrating purr and she likes to do it as close to your ear as possible. After a while […]
Mar 3rd, 2025
Read MoreA confession…
When I was about eight years old, my parents acquired one of those beautifully bound “sets” of books which build every month into a collection which sit and look good on bookshelves, but rarely, if ever, actually get read. This particular set was “classics of literature” and as there weren’t that many books in our […]
Feb 27th, 2025
Read More“Some” chillies
J was passing through Helensburgh today and I asked him to get me a bunch of bananas and “a few” chillies. He got them from Nature’s Harvest in Helensburgh, which is one of my favourite shops as it sells stuff like gooseberries which the supermarkets have stopped selling. As you can see, they have a […]
Feb 26th, 2025
Read MoreA protest
I forgot to leave Lucky any wet food last night. There were two big bowls of dried food (which he quite often eats by choice), but on this occasion they were not sufficient. He then decided to signal his own ability to provide food, and indeed to offer us one of his surplus mice, as […]
Feb 25th, 2025
Read MoreSheep are still there
In our garden – they have been with us over a month now. Yesterday I cut a huge pile of brambles – I had meant to put them on the compost heap today, but there has been about five minutes when it has not been raining. The sheep are greatly enjoying them and they are […]
Feb 24th, 2025
Read MoreTrying to get things done
I keep trying to get more garden related tasks done. R and I made big progress on Saturday – he chain sawed some trees that had come down in the winter storms, and I cleared massive amounts of brambles and demolished the old cat house which had been falling to pieces. We also finally gave […]
Feb 22nd, 2025
Read MoreSome fun with the cats
Poor little Saphy hasn’t been very well for a few weeks – she has bladder stones, and we have been trying to get them to dissolve with a special urinary diet prescribed by the vet. She may need to have an operation if they don’t clear up. But today she seemed alright. First of all […]
Feb 21st, 2025
Read MoreAnother wild day
Went to Helensburgh to go to the dentist and see my Mum. We walked down to the seafront. R took a photo of the sea which was very rough indeed. It was so windy that I had to hold on to a lamp post to avoid going for a flight over the Clyde.
Feb 20th, 2025
Read MoreRain and more rain
Now I am broadly back to normal, I want to try to get the garden back into shape. It has become very overgrown, and the area round the pond in particular needs a lot of work. But ever since I have been ready to get started, it has poured it down with rain. It was […]