Cuckoo Flower
First cuckoo flower! Love this little wildflower. Means our resident cuckoo is due to arrive back any time now. Must have heard the...
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Feb 28, 2019
Spring..and love..is in the air
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...
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Jan 28, 2019
Lake Reflections
What a beautifully still lake this morning, the forest spotlit by the early morning sun. #morningslikethese #LakesideGlamping #Donegal...
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Oct 3, 2018
The wildflower grand finale for this year
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...
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Jul 25, 2018
Wild billbery-picking
We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...
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Jun 21, 2018
Wildflower heaven
A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...
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Apr 20, 2018
Cuckoo is Back!
The cuckoo is back! One of the loveliest sounds of Spring that stops you in your tracks. #Nature #Spring #Cuckoo #Birds
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Mar 1, 2018
The Beast came West
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...
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Nov 18, 2017
Dramatic Autumn sunsets
An apocalptic sunset on the horizon the other evening. (Thankfully we are all still here.) The light and long shadows across the...
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Oct 18, 2017
Storm Coming
Taking the donkeys down from their highland summer residence to their more sheltered winter residence...just in time before Storm Ophelia...
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Apr 16, 2017
Going Cuckoo
There was much excitement this morning at breakfast - the cuckoo is back! We have been looking forward to its arrival but weren't...
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Nov 30, 2016
Spreading Roots
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. ...
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Apr 18, 2016
The Vegetable Garden
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...
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Oct 22, 2015
Off-Grid Babies
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...
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Sep 17, 2015
Stormy Stormy Night
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...
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Sep 3, 2015
Fretting Grannies
We don't really like the term 'Glamping', I personally prefer 'Boutique Camping' (as we called it in my Electric Picnic days). Whatever...
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