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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Jul 7th, 2020
Read MoreNo Cherries this year
The Jays which were largely absent last year have had a huge new brood. Not only are they devouring the fat balls and seeds, but they are methodically stripping my cherry tree. Every morning I look out and think that some of the cherries are nearly ripe enough to be picked, and every lunchtime any […]
Jul 6th, 2020
Read MoreA Cheery Poem
There doesn’t seem to have been much cheer in the world of late (self-inflicted). So here is a poem written by our cats just before Schrodi died in honour of their Gran on Mothers’ Day. If anyone is interested in Victorian Poetry they might note that I think there is a degree of plagiarism involved. […]
Jun 25th, 2020
Read MoreMouse and Bacon Pie
I have been saving up Tora’s catches over the last two weeks and considering this “national crisis” I decided to make use of them. So with credit to Beatrix Potter, here is my recipe for Mouse and Bacon Pie. Take approx 20 assorted rodents – mice and voles are both good, but stay clear of […]
Jun 25th, 2020
Read MoreHome made Peanut butter dispenser
A few weeks ago we got an order of seeds in from a different company than Amazon. All the Amazon seeds seem to take for ever and a day to be delivered, and also don’t seem to have very precise delivery dates. So we got some seeds a few weeks ago during their so called […]
Jun 20th, 2020
Read MoreMouse up the sleeve and down the back
Tora just brought in a very lively mousie. With considerable difficulty I caught it from under the bookcase, but it then escaped up the sleeve of my dressing gown (had just had a shower) and migrated from there to the small of my back. I had to crawl outside and then remove all my clothing. […]
Jun 2nd, 2020
Read MoreMousies and Woodies
We now have a family of at least four woodpeckers who just love the fat balls we put out. It used to take the small birds about a month to get through one feeder full of them, but the woodpeckers can do it twice in a day. We looked them up on the RSPB website, […]
May 31st, 2020
Read MoreHelensburgh Yesterday
We went out to Helensburgh yesterday to see my parents. It is obvious to me that no one here in the Highlands is obeying any kind of social isolation. The A83 and A82 were mobbed with cars as always on a warm May Saturday. There were cars with canoes, there were boats being towed, there […]
May 17th, 2020
Read MoreBirds and fruit trees
We have had some lovely birds on our feeders. We can now see them a bit better as R and I put a new camera up directly facing the feeders. This was not a particularly easy task as it involved threading a cable through the attic and down the wall and then securing the camera […]
May 5th, 2020
Read MoreOwl Box mounted in garden
Our lovely owl box which my parents gave us as a present has now been mounted on a tree. Unfortunately due to the actions of our government we didn’t manage to get it put up in time for owls to breed in it this year. We are still hearing them around but I think that […]