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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My sourdough culture has been up and running for over a week now and is doing well. He has had several children and I am using the name convention for storms for them. So we have had Loaf Angela, Loaf Barry, Loaf Douglas and yesterday – Loaf Edith. I’ve found the bread to be very […]
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To be woken up…. Best way. Handsome waiter knocks on your door at 8:30am bringing with him a nice breakfast tray of bacon and eggs, toast and coffee. One of the worst ways. 5:30am a cat with really fishy breath licks your nose and then claws his way right down your back under the sheets […]
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Checking our webcam last night, we had two (at least) badgers, a fox, and a pine marten. None of them seemed that interested in the nuts I had put out though, as they just had a quick sniff and moved on. However, all the nuts were gone this morning, and turns out that this is […]
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I’d be the first to admit that there have been many beneficial changes in society over the last 30 years (I wouldn’t be without my iPhone or Surface for example), but to me there is something very badly going wrong now. When I was in my early 20s I lived in Brighton with my then […]
The huge male sheep which R has named as SD RAM left the garden yesterday. R was braver than me and went out in the foul weather this morning to walk to the top of the waterfall while I cleaned the house. Sure enough SD RAM (this is a tech joke BTW) had escaped from […]
R and I had been supposed to be repairing the shed roof today but with the weather the way it is, it is just not possible. We have had gale force winds and torrential rain since yesterday. The river is really really high and after lunch we took our life in our hands and walked […]
