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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Anyway, we were fixed again by 10am the next day (with no real explanation for what had happened though) and set off to catch up with where we should have reached the following day. It was now Monday and the Lough was even emptier than at the weekend. Against the forecast, the weather was still […]
Our first full day dawned with beautiful weather (which according to the forecast would be the last sun we would see all week). We cruised down the “Upper Lough” which is very wide and very empty. Comparing it to the Norfolk broads which we visited a few years ago, not crashing into things was very […]
We had a giant “Full Irish” breakfast in the hotel. These are before and after pictures of J’s plate. Then we went to see the Marble Arch caves which are part of a huge Unesco Geopark (I’d never heard of one of these before). Apparently they were where the Beric Dondarion scenes in Game of Thrones were […]
We set off today to go cruising round Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for a week. Of course with the weather having been beautiful last week – we are expecting it will pour down all the time we are away. In the confined quarters of the boat I can’t help imagining it will be like […]
I’ve not said so much about walking over the last couple of weeks. Reason for this is that in a burst of middle aged enthusiasm I signed up for the Edinburgh Half-Marathon. All went well for the first couple of weeks training, and then I was running back from Coran in a pair of barefoot […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
