Leaving Glen Urquhart and travelling via the 10.30pm sailing from Oban and arriving in Achadaphail at midnight. We intended to cut the grass and spend the day in the garden on Saturday but the weather on Friday was not at all promising with heavy showers and quite a strong wind. Saturday turned out to be a great day with sun and a breeze so the Factor 40 was necessary. This couldn't last though and we woke to heavyish rain for most of Sunday morning which became more intermittent as the day went on.
A dash for Fishnish and the 3.10pm crossing to Lochaline proved to be 2 minutes too late and so it was the 4.25pm ferry which took us back to the mainland.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
March Trip 3
Back again. This is the last push as our first guests arrive the following Saturday so when we leave on Sunday afternoon the house is ready and looking well.
March Trip 2
A late night crossing from Oban and a busy weekend finishing the floor and beginning the skirting boards.
March Trip 1
I took a Thursday and Friday off work to travel on Thursday morning, from Glen Urquhart, via Inverness and Kentallen Farm near Salen then finally reaching the Ross of Mull about 4pm. AN helped me lay the new Caithness slab for the hearth and that was about all I managed for Thursday. Frantic laying of floor boards ensued all Friday and Saturday and I returned north again on Sunday.
February Weekend
We removed the carpet and hearth in the living room and began preparing for the new floor and stove. We made a new concrete plinth for the hearth stone and laid the first new boards for the floor.
Friday, 8 January 2010
Christmas 2009
Our last trip of the year, 28th-29th December, was primarily to check over the house in the midst of the cold winter weather and to deliver some larch flooring which we intend to put down. Packing the van in Glen Urquhart on the Monday morning it was -16C but luckily Mull never experiences temperatures like that.
We stayed Monday night and took the long road back to Skye on Tuesday leaving at 3pm and arriving home about 10.10pm through some pretty wintery conditions, a 480 mile round trip in all. The drive at Achadaphail was like a skating rink, see below, but glad to say the pipes in the house were fine.
Ben More, Tuesday 29th December 2009.
We stayed Monday night and took the long road back to Skye on Tuesday leaving at 3pm and arriving home about 10.10pm through some pretty wintery conditions, a 480 mile round trip in all. The drive at Achadaphail was like a skating rink, see below, but glad to say the pipes in the house were fine.
Ben More, Tuesday 29th December 2009.
3rd and 10th October 2009
The 3rd of October would have been my parents 40th wedding anniversary (married Bunessan and then reception in The Clansman, now Pennygael Hotel) so it was slightly poignant to be down on the Ross of Mull on this date.
We left from Glen Urquhart in the morning and by Spean Bridge we were asking ourselves were we wise, a very stormy morning with wind and heavy rain made it a pretty horrible drive down. We persevered as I didn't expect to be able to get across on any other weekend. This led to a new pastime called 'Extreme Lawnmowing', whizzing around the lawns at Achadaphail whilst dealing with a force 7 or 8 gale (see the pictures of Burg below).
Made it home safely that evening to Glen Urquhart via the take-away in Inverlochy.
The 10th October was another milestone as it was Catherine's mother's first ever visit to Mull. We stayed the Friday night in the Distillery Guesthouse in Fort William (an excellent guesthouse and our first visit there). The next morning Catherine and Mary headed off early to Achadaphail (this was Isle of Mull Rally weekend too) and did the changeover on the house, before heading home to Hungladder. (I didn't go over this weekend as I was playing at a wedding with the band and the last thing I wanted was to turn up late for a wedding booking).
We left from Glen Urquhart in the morning and by Spean Bridge we were asking ourselves were we wise, a very stormy morning with wind and heavy rain made it a pretty horrible drive down. We persevered as I didn't expect to be able to get across on any other weekend. This led to a new pastime called 'Extreme Lawnmowing', whizzing around the lawns at Achadaphail whilst dealing with a force 7 or 8 gale (see the pictures of Burg below).
Made it home safely that evening to Glen Urquhart via the take-away in Inverlochy.
The 10th October was another milestone as it was Catherine's mother's first ever visit to Mull. We stayed the Friday night in the Distillery Guesthouse in Fort William (an excellent guesthouse and our first visit there). The next morning Catherine and Mary headed off early to Achadaphail (this was Isle of Mull Rally weekend too) and did the changeover on the house, before heading home to Hungladder. (I didn't go over this weekend as I was playing at a wedding with the band and the last thing I wanted was to turn up late for a wedding booking).
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