Blog Entries from An Appetite for Lochaber
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
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When your mother says either “don’t do it!” or “You could NEVER do that”, it often triggers a defiant response. Never much of a rebel, my response was “Aye, yer bloody right I wouldn’t!”With a heavy...
On a rare warm and sunny day, the Running Police called to suggest taking advantage of the good weather. I was still licking wounds from Curly’s 12 mile ‘light’ exercise but didn’t like to mess with...
Casual Curly suggested a wee run after tea the other week. I couldn’t make it til later so she said 7pm at Spean Bridge would be plenty time for a simple, evening adventure. A run to the Laraig...
After a difficult week of pig herding which had put a bit of a strain on our relationship, I asked Spook if he’d like to join me on a gastronomic tour out on the Morvern Peninsula, Strontian and the...
After securing the darling little piglets, we headed off to Edinburgh to pick up Granny and Papa Munro who had been living the dream in their camper van in Europe, but had broken down 200 miles from...
The warning signs were everywhere if only one had paid attention. Meg (and I) had thought it was a good time to have pigs again. There was a time when every croft had a pig - they turned over the...
Endurance - there’s the thing. You gotta keep at it. So in honour of the day before Summer Solstice (because it was the clearer evening and because we could both afford to be knackered on Wednesday...
When Lochaber has been stuck under the only cloud in the country for a few days, it brings about a fresh enthusiasm for getting out and about. Running Girl, aka Running Police, recommended a Half...
Finding normality when life is ever-changing, isn’t easy. Perhaps that’s because normality is ever changing and this has to to be acknowledged and embraced. Mamma J passed away on the 7th of May.(...