The Pie Run

Today we headed to Lochinver to buy pies (of course) from Lochinver Larder. We bought pies for this evening’s dinner and also a selection of pies to freeze for future dinners. We usually just buy savoury ones, but today we treated ourselves to two “toffee apple” pies which I look forward to tasting. The village was very quiet with restaurants and cafés all shut today, although the An Cala café still opens from Thursdays to Sundays during the winter. I absolutely love Lochinver but I’m glad that our cottage is in Ullapool where there are quite a few restaurants and pubs that open year round. Luckily for James the Lochinver Chandlery and Hardware store was open for a quick browse, it’s one of his favourite shops - Alison and I once lost Hugh and James in there for some time! It’s not even that big but they just disappeared among the shelves! Hugh later suggested that James visit Highland Industrial Supplies (HIS) in Inverness which is so big that it has several buildings. James was overwhelmed with excitement when he went to HIS, quickly buying a hatchet and a log basket as well as other unidentifiable tools which he felt were essential for the maintenance of the cottage. 

When we were in the area we went for a walk around some wee lochans near the River Inver; it’s an easy walk but very beautiful. The weather couldn’t make up its mind between sunshine and showers and hence we were treated to a rather lovely rainbow.