Day Trip to Gorgeous Gigha
In one of our weeks up in the North, late June 2023, the weather had been pretty fair during the week but there was one particular day...
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John Burkinshaw
Jul 303 min read
More Lovely Visitors
Kathryn, Liz's friend from Nuclear Medicine days, made another trip to see us in June. For our first day we headed for a little cycle...
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Jul 273 min read
Wildlife at Clacheranmor
As well as the bird spotting, also very exciting has been several visits from a pine marten. Something we had never seen before in real...
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Jul 233 min read
Wednesday Date Day - The Waverley
On Wednesdays Liz doesn't work, so that's another day for some bucket list trips. This time, it was the paddle steamer Waverley which is...
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Jul 203 min read
Community events
Liz has been trawling the internet for local events in and around Dunoon - let's find out what's going on on our front doorstep and join...
John Burkinshaw
Jul 162 min read
Wednesday Date Day - Lochgoilhead
Wednesdays are Liz's day off in the week and it's always good to have a plan, especially in the summer, to make the most of this time we...
John Burkinshaw
Jul 133 min read
BIG NEWS - Latest CT Results
John: A CT scan was planned after the last chemotherapy session and booked for about 10 days later, so I headed off to Vale of Leven...
John Burkinshaw
Jul 91 min read
More work in the garden
The outside of the house has been on hold for the winter but now spring has arrived and rapidly become what we hope is a good hot summer,...
John Burkinshaw
Jul 63 min read
Bucket List - Five Ferry Fail
Liz thinks that John has made this up, but he says its definately a thing and it is on the CalMac ferry website. It's labelled as 'an...
John Burkinshaw
Jul 22 min read
New job, new car and other news
When living remotely some things take some coordinating. The motorbike needed its annual MOT - nearest MOT station is only about 20 miles...
John Burkinshaw
Jun 294 min read
A visit to Leamington
Visiting our 'young adult' offspring in and around Leamington is part of the deal and somegthing we want to do - probably every 6 weeks...
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Jun 253 min read
Amber Visits and More Friends
Amber came up in her car for a few days and we had some great times. As always, our children have the power to bring us the greatest...
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Jun 223 min read
New kitchen!
It seems ages back (January!) when we started the process on the new kitchen and now installation came upon us in April just as we headed...
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Jun 183 min read
More visitors
Having visitors to Clacheranmor gives us great joy - it helps us get ourselves out and into the world we now live in. Lately, Mark...
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Jun 153 min read
Chemo 9-12
Following a month break while we enjoyed a holiday in Italy and being able to forget about the whole cancer thing for a while, dose nine...
John Burkinshaw
Jun 112 min read
Utility room makeover
When we bought the house the utility room housed a battered sink and unit below, and an even more battered boiler. When the new boiler...
John Burkinshaw
Jun 82 min read
Disaster at Clacheranmor
The water has gone off - thankfully at 8.30am on a sunny day (albeit mid-shower with a head full of shampoo!) For most people, the water...
John Burkinshaw
Jun 43 min read
Bucket List - Seaplane Excursion
Liz has been encouraging me (John) to think about things I really want to do - a bucket list - to help us focus on some memorable good...
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Jun 12 min read
Spring garden tidy
Mum loves gardening and so whenever they joined us at Clacheranmor it immediately becomes her task. I'm not sure if her heart rose or...
John Burkinshaw
May 252 min read
Guest toilet transformation
Another room in need of a complete strip back and start again was the guest toilet - the toilet was not flush against the wall, the sink...
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