Well, another week of dry warm weather and our visitors are enjoying the beaches and walks of Kintyre. Most have the sense not to be too ambitious - the narrow roads are best taken leisurely, and not for doing huge long trips. There is always the statutory visit to Campbeltown - which can disappoint so best combined with a trip round the distillery, or a run across to Machrihanish. And Gigha is a must! But otherwise you can spend days pottering around the local forest trails, or wandering down to the Bay.

At the moment forestry operations near the village offer a fascinating view of modern timber felling. The Forestry Commission don't mind you watching, and the amazing machines that trundle up and down the hillside chopping up trees to exact lengths for precise purposes are really state of the art. The operators have GPS, computer control, and about three telephone connections and know precisely what should be felled and where.

It's always very sad to see much loved trees suddenly disappear, but at the end of the day it is a crop and it's because of this that we have such wonderful trails and paths all around us.