Well, what a great spell of weather we've had ;  the hens just love the sunshine and the combination of a glorious day and the pleasure of digging up the garden to make dust bowls is almost too much for them.  So they just lay more and more eggs and for me Spring is a frenzy of cake and quiche making.  We had the daft idea of getting a smaller freezer and there's not much extra room for all these goodies so if you happen to open your cottage freezer and find it packed with chocolate cake then just quietly eat it!

Lots on in the village over Easter - it's a great time for family visits;  what's more all the traditional Carradale holiday visitors turn up in force so the Golf Club is packed and it's hard to find a place to eat. It would be lovely if the summer holidays had the same feel of camaraderie but times have changed and we don't get so many repeat visits as we used to.  People come and have a lovely time exploring Kintyre, but next year it has to be somewhere else. But we do have our wonderful old faithfuls, and many people pop down for a few days of nostagia!

The huge electricity project up the road has moved into a new phase and is much less disruptive.  What's more, most of the back road is being resurfaced which is wonderful.. This is going on at night and the other day Mike, returning from Yorkshire, had to do the last part of his journey along forest roads! We still await the exciting part of laying a cable undersea from Crossaig to Hunterston but there won't be much to see.  We'll all be taking trips back and forth on the Arran ferry just to get a peek.

Talking of which, Arran fares have come down drastically thanks to a subsidy call the Road Equivalent Tariff, so we'll all be having a day over there with the car for next to nothing.  When this came in to the Outer Isles they weere inundated with mobile homes, and the people in Mull are dreading the same.  Arran seems a bit more laid back about the whole thing,  and what a nice perk if you live on the island.