Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
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Last Update: Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 09:05
For the last four years I have been trying to work out how and why Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and why Boris A. P. Johnson persuaded more than half of voters that we...
On Saturday Tobermory was still and quiet; we were still keeping our distance there were no visitors, no cruise ships, I had the ferry, "Loch Tarbert" to myself again and the inshore fishing boats...
First find a mouseHens (chickens in the USA) are highly intelligent, they can negotiate complex mazes in return for rewards, they learn quickly, for example they expect me to be out there in the late...
Wild goats where they should be... not in townIt's quiet out there with very few people about and wild animals are moving into urban spaces.Today's "Guardian" newspaper has a photo of a gang of...
For one passengerWe've been doing self-isolation in the UK for a week now, it's felt like a string of Church of Scotland Sundays.The village shop / post office is doing a sterling job supplying the...
No trees too many Red deer If I look down from my bedroom window in the small hours of a moonlit winter's night there are large grey shapes mooching around in the field that runs down to the sea...
The UK terrorist police think I'm a potentially violent extremist because my white hair, hearing aids, poor eyesight, poorer memory, dodgy knee and the occasional corn on my right foot. Why?......
I have always been lucky, my mother once told me...." If you fell in the harbour you'd come out dry with your boots full of fish".Forty years ago I was lucky to be given a Winston Churchill...
Each morning I read the online version of The Guardian (UK equivalent of the Washington Times and France's Le Monde)) and The Times, to get a balanced view of the world.Photo: Patrick Hendry,...
Sunrise over Morven 14/11/19It's the 14th November and already this month I have filled the water butt with a hosepipe for the livestock three times. It's been unusually dry for...
