First cuckoo flower! Love this little wildflower. Means our resident cuckoo is due to arrive back any time now. Must have heard the...

Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...

What a beautifully still lake this morning, the forest spotlit by the early morning sun. #morningslikethese #LakesideGlamping #Donegal...

The wildflower final hurrah of the year at Lough Mardal is dominated by this beauty. The Devil's-bit scabious. I've come to love it so...

We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...

A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...

The cuckoo is back! One of the loveliest sounds of Spring that stops you in your tracks. #Nature #Spring #Cuckoo #Birds

We were half expecting to escape the #beastfromtheeast up in our corner of the North West...and then in the blink of an eye this...

An apocalptic sunset on the horizon the other evening. (Thankfully we are all still here.) The light and long shadows across the...

Taking the donkeys down from their highland summer residence to their more sheltered winter residence...just in time before Storm Ophelia...

There was much excitement this morning at breakfast - the cuckoo is back! We have been looking forward to its arrival but weren't...

It’s now Winter. I started this in Autumn. I need to hurry up before it's Spring. Lough Mardal has been going through a costume change. ...

We are living at Lough Mardal again after a long winter. It's lovely to be back - and be back for good. Spring is in the air, green...

The girls won't remember their time living in a yurt which is a shame - they have spent almost a quarter of their lives here. In this...

3.30am. It sounds like a Boeing 747 is taking off outside the yurt. I've never heard wind like this before. The noise is literally...

We don't really like the term 'Glamping', I personally prefer 'Boutique Camping' (as we called it in my Electric Picnic days). Whatever...

In August 2014 we spotted a patch of Donegal wilderness available for sale online. The photos showed a rather murky boggy hill, not...