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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May 5th, 2016

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Surface Attack

R is away in Glasgow giving a presentation tonight.  I had to laugh at the title of one of his slides “Surface Attack”.  This is actually refers to something which is not that interesting unless you are into IT Security, but it made me think of something else entirely.  So below you can see the […]

May 2nd, 2016

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Blossom Tree

In spite of the snow and low temperatures over the last few days, the plum tree is still covered in blossom, so perhaps all will be well for later in the year.  I do hope so as Victoria plums are a real favourite of mine. Today the weather is really ‘goily’ with sunshine and squalls […]

May 1st, 2016

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Some Vegan Treats

We went to see V in Stirling today.  I brought her a couple of homemade vegan treats. Firstly a tea loaf – this was seriously nice – no dairy or fat and considerably less sugar than most cakes, but tastes really moist and rich.  Make 10 fl oz strong tea.  Add 8 oz sultanas or […]

Apr 30th, 2016

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Everyone should have a hobby

We got a new webcam for the shed recently.  It is much higher resolution than the old one – which in one respect is great (in that the video is obviously far better quality), but unfortunately it means that motion under the fence where the wildlife comes from is not tripping off the motion detector […]

Apr 29th, 2016

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Winter Returns

With a vengeance….  Yesterday my ASDA order had to be cancelled as there was snow on the Rest, and our road got blocked by cars getting stuck on it.  Doubtless this would be tourists in what R calls “summer cars” but actually I hardly blame them – it can’t be too great to be heading […]

Apr 28th, 2016

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My first visit to Lochgoilhead

I’d been trying to find this photo for a while as I had mislaid it – R managed to find it today. The location is Lochgoilhead in front of what is now the post office, and the baby in the pram is me.  As I look about a year old, I will date myself by saying […]

Apr 27th, 2016

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Happy Birthday Mum

I  made my Mum a special meal for her birthday today.  We had brown shimps with bread and butter, a seafood ‘melange’ (monkfish and assorted seafood in a tomato sauce topped with cheese), and a rather nice (even if I say so myself) chocolate and raspberry cake.   Back to home and the healthy regime […]

Apr 26th, 2016

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Why no nice low calorie drinks?

The government recently applied their ‘sugar tax’ – I’m in general quite opposed to using taxation to enforce one set of people’s moral values on the rest of the population, but I found it interesting that they think it needed to be done.  Because here’s the thing (and I’ve done some fairly intensive browsing of […]

Apr 24th, 2016

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The Cuckoo Arrives

R and I went for our first bike ride since arriving in Lochgoilhead today. It was a very pretty morning with lots of  lambs in striped sports socks trying out grazing for the first time and looking as though they decided that they preferred Mum! Then just as we were turning into the woods, we […]

Apr 23rd, 2016

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Hoist with my own Woolton

Some years ago R and I did a 1940s diet.  This involved eating (as far as possible) only food that was available on the 1944 UK rations – so very little meat, fat, sweets etc. and lots of brown bread, carrots and assorted brassicas.    The idea was not only to lose some weight, but […]