MABEL’S BLOG

MABEL’S BLOG

We love dogs and we are very happy to welcome friendly adult dogs and their owners.

Powdermills Bed and Breakfast in Inveraray is ideal for dogs. It has slate floors with rugs and direct access out into our secure 10-acre garden. We have established routes around the grounds that are perfect for an early morning or early evening walk with your dog.

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Sue and Johnny -Everything and Anything – Episode 38

20 October 2023

En Pointe, Pirouette, and a Pas de deux – A Tribute to John Rintoul

14 October 2023

I remember it like it was yesterday, except it wasn’t.  It was the third week of August in 1979.  John Rintoul approached me between classes with his usual bouncy spirit.  He was delicate, with fine cheekbones, scrupulously clean-shaven, with auburn hair dusted with grey.  He always seemed to have a cheeky smile, as if he […]

Sue and Johnny – Everything and Anything – Episode 37

12 October 2023

Speakers’ Corner – Singing in the Rain

12 October 2023

Have you heard of the band The Silencers and their song Scottish Rain?  Me neither; it came on Spotify on Sunday morning at breakfast during the hush, interspersed with the clink of knives and forks, that befalls the house when guests enjoy their fayre.  It’s not a bad tune; it’s on my playlist now.  We […]

Speakers’ Corner – The Sanctuary of Powdermills

6 October 2023

The Sanctuary of Powdermills, Furnace, Argyll ‘You’re so lucky, having a garden like this, so large, so wild.’  That’s a statement I’ve heard many times.  If I had £5 for every occasion it has been hurled at me, I’d be rich.  Firstly, it’s not a garden.  It is a protected historical industrial monument with grounds, […]