Spring is always a few weeks later up in the Trossachs. whilst many of you may have seen your daffodils come and go...the ones we planted in front of the Soghail Lodge are just in bloom..... Beautiful!

Yesterday's arctic blast dropped a couple of inches of snow and sent the mercury to about minus ten degrees..... but our guests were snug as a bug in the lodges, and woke up to some spectacular views of the Balquhidder Braes!

We've had 3 or 4 inches of snow at the lodge over New Year, and the children of our guests built a Snowpig on the decking. Check out how it turns into a ghostly apparition when viewed from inside the lodge later that evening!

Auld Lang Syne is a great Scots tradition to sing on New Years Eve....a nod to remember good times gone by. Prince gave a great performance of this Burns ditto on Hogmany 1987 at Paisley Park....the opening bars are the chords for Purple Rain...then Prince makes his entrance, which is where we pick it up, and he gives his rendition (some nice licks at the end for the rockers)....enjoy....Happy New Year from Balquhidder Mhor Lodge!

Wintery scenes arrived as we had a white Christmas at the lodge this year once again and our guests enjoyed a lovely bottle of champagne in the hot tub!