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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Getting slightly warmer here now and the first bulbs are just starting to come through. R and I walked round the river walk and community gardens in the rain this morning. February really is a dismal month. Never mind, it will soon be spring.
I made us some nice Sunday food today – all from a few chicken legs. I cooked them in the slow cooker overnight. Then in the morning I made a chicken and mushroom pie from most of the meat. I served this with baked potatoes and sprouts Then what was left of the chicken went […]
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I haven’t even been home to Argyll yet, and today I am off on my travels again, this time up North trying to talk some companies into buying our training course. I had a Heilan’ woman’s breakfast in Queen’s Street Station (R said it looked a bit French but perhaps that was the influence of […]
I used to work as a Lotus Notes Administrator. One of the best error messages I have ever seen appeared in the log files when the server was very, very busy “Unable to keep up with the flow of events”. That’s me at the moment… I am simultaneously a) cleaning out a house in Norfolk […]
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I’ve got the journey to Norfolk down pat having done it four times now. My preferred (preferred in the sense of least awful) is Helensburgh, Edinburgh, Peterborough, Ely, Kings Lynn by train, and then the last leg to Walsingham by the coastliner bus. Actually I’ve been known to moan about this journey but I’ve grown […]
R had to take poor little Saphy to the vet in Dunoon this morning. He went for a walk along the front while she was having her X-Ray and saw this lovely sunrise. I’ve always liked Dunoon as a place – unlike my Mum who has an irrational hatred of it for some reason. Saphy […]
