The season is about to spring to life – the cafes and castles are reopening and we’ve had a fun and productive winter carrying out our never ending list of jobs.
We managed a quick weekend away by Loch Awe – the hotel had these lovely fire pits by the edge of the loch – I need to convince Tom that we should have fire pits at Cill-Mhoire 🙂
What better way to spend your birthday than with a blustery walk to Langamull and a happy dog chasing a tennis ball into the sea!
I caught this beauty whilst taking Fuggle out for her evening constitutional – moonlight being refracted by millions of ice crystals. Such a lovely sight!
Oh winter! It’s been super windy and we got battered by storms over the New Year. We have trees that have just been ripped out of the ground and small bits of damage to the lodges including the trellis outside Willow finally giving way. We’ve been putting off replacing it as we liked the plants. But this took the decision out of our hands! Instead of getting panels we’ve replaced them bit by bit, so we’ve saved the plants and it looks nice and refreshed for the new season. Yay!
We don’t leave Mull very often, but when we do, we make the most of it! A full day in Oban – shopping, opticians, dentist and then a wee treat on the boat on the way back.
We’ve been having glorious weather for the past few weeks – the evenings are getting longer and we’ve had some amazing skies. We’ve got availability left in April if you fancy a short break with us – for a limited time a three night break can start any day of the week.
We love watching the seasons change and Autumn has definitely arrived. Mull is getting quieter now, some of the restaurants and cafes have closed until next year and the shops are reducing their hours. The hills and beaches and pathways stay open all year round though, as do we!
If you want to escape for a few days our availability calendar is always up to date and online.
We’ve had a great week with family and for once, we managed to leave site and do lots of fun things! We finally visited the aquarium, we’ve been building sandcastles, going on boat trips and, my favourite thing, crabbing in Tobermory. Sadly we’re back on our own again and about the tackle all the jobs we avoided whilst doing the fun things!
Those of you who have visited us over the last five years will have met our two ‘assistants’, Fuggle and Simcoe.
Sadly we lost Simcoe recently. She had a degenerative spinal issue that even the best vets couldn’t fix and on their advice we let her go.
We’ll always miss her x
We had Tom’s family visit us over Christmas and had great times exploring and climbing on some of Mull’s best beaches, including on the rocks above Traigh na Cille beach near Torloisk. Christmas and New Year here can be magical – why not think ahead to 2022 and book your Winter stay with us!
A grown up Puffling
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