EAGLETON NOTES

After many weeks of no rain and pretty good weather the inevitable June scourge arrived: the Dreaded Midge.  Today, however, there will be ...

I am on Skye. It is hot. It is Scotland. There is no wind. There are midges. EVERYWHERE.  The bedroom I am occupying is not large and l...

Yesterday afternoon the Minch was so quiet and placid that last evening the dreaded midges arrived. This morning there was an eerie ...

This morning there were a few dead midges around after the door had been open most of yesterday evening so I tried to get some photos with ...

On 19 January this year CJ aka  Scriptor Senex posted on the god DataTransfer  .  This proved to be his undoing as his computing world fel...

We've just made the national news.  No midges!  Since my post in June entitled B****y Midges apparently the very dry weather and the co...

One should always be careful for what one wishes.  Over the last few weeks I've been very conscious that one of the dangers of wishing ...

I'm sorry Mr Weatherman.  Within 30 minutes of me saying that the sun had come out at 0930 the sky had returened to that grey colour one...

This morning the midges were so bad that even the pigeons were being hounded:

This morning it's sunny and warm at 19℃ here in Eagleton and there is only a very slight breeze.  In most places that would be regarded ...

When commenting on a friend of mine who renews his BMW car and motorbike every few years, his new lady-friend said “Yes, he does come with a...

I blogged last year a bit earlier than this on Midges .  Inevitably when something plays such a significant part in a blogger’s life then it...

This morning there is no wind. That is a Good Thing. This morning at just over 11 deg (yes, I know, it's summer here!) it's a bit ...

Today has been hot. Really quite hot indeed. In fact in the garden it reached just over 25 in the shade. As there was no breeze there was no...