Ardno House Bed and Breakfast

12/10/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
Mummy and Daddy and I need a rest, so this will be the last one for a week or two cos we are going into hibernation next week when we say goodbyes to the last of our 493 guestses from 30 countries.
We have served 1019 breakfastses this year. It is my bestful meal of the day. There are often titbits coming my way. My favouritest is smokey salmon and kippers with a side of sausage and scrumbled egg.
Autumn is a great time to see spectackular skies here and this week has been the bestest, with rainbows, auroras, and moody skies. Mummy took some fabidoo piccies which I is sharin.
Anyhoo, be nice to each other and when we has had some restfulness I’ll let you know what’s new in my life.

10/10/2026

05/10/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
When the season comes to an end Daddy starts counting things and yesterday, he was counting where the guestses have come from this year.
As usual mostest of them have been from Americaland, in about the same numbers as last year, but the numbers from Yewrope, espeshully Germanians and Frenches are much moreful. I think they like the Scottish summer weather.
Numberers from Oztralia and New Zealandland are well down though. Daddy thinks that is because it is more difficult to travel becos of people with hate in their hearts making wars. Doggos like me only have love in our hearts. If all those hatefilled mens (men!..tut tut) had a doggo to stroke every day and take for walkies round Glencoe Lochan they might chill and get on lots better.
Anyhoo there is not much spaces left to stay here this year. Daddy suggests that if you are thinkin aboot coming to this area next year and want your whistle wet you should take a look at the fabidoo

Anyhoo, see yous next week.

28/09/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
At this time of year as the guestses season ends there is lots of rememberings about what has happened this year being discussed.
Mummy and Daddy like their memories. They keeps lots of them in their headses but they also surround themselves with them.
There are Swizzles Love Hearts for the guestses which remind Mummy of living near the smell of the factory making them. There is roobub growing in the garden that came from Daddy’s Daddy’s garden as well as the little man. There is a blossom tree that was planted to remind Mummy & Daddy about their wedding birthday. And a spinning wheel and Harris tweed in the house remind mummy of her Hebridean rootses.
Even the puffin doorstop has a memory of a very dear cousin who used to go fishin in his yellow wellies.
And of courses whens they look at me they remember how luckyful they are.
I has a good memory too. I can always remember when it is first and second breakfast and teatime. I keep my memory in my nozel hozel what I use for sniffin things.
One of our guestses sent us a piccie of the house this week which they have as a memory of their visit.
Where do you keep your memories?
Anyhoo, see yous next week.

21/09/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
This is your last call for a stay this year. There is not mushroom left before we closes for a while.
In October we only have roomses Thurs 1st & Fri 2nd, Mon 5th, Tues 6th & Wed 7th, Thurs 15th & Fri16th and Sat 17th & Sun 18th.
Talking of mushrooms there are lots growin here. Mummy knows her onions when it comes to fungi (that’s why she married Daddy) but he still won’t eat them when she picks them.
It doesn’t matter how much sh*take about how good they are, he tells her that she is being sporing and to button it. I have no idea what they are talkin about and feel as if I am being kept in the dark.
Anyhoo it doesn’t matter if she is the champignon of the world at foraging, he still won’t risk it. The morel of the story is if you want to stay out of truffle don’t eat wild mushrooms that Mummy has cooked.
Enough of this stalk. To cap off the week, we went to Inverary where we saw two very different boatses in the bay and had a nice walk around the town. Mummy was uncumfortubble though because it is Campbell country and they were nasty to her famalam clan, the MacDonalds only 334 years ago, so we didn’t visit the castle.
She says she doesn’t hold grudges; she remembers facts. Her memory is great which is a shame because her grudges will outlive a Seychelles Giant Tortoise.
But Daddy’s memory is really bad. Mummy bought him a book about how to improve his memory, but he keeps forgetting where he put it. I am very furgetful too and need a reboot of my nose (where I store my memory) most mornings.
Anyhoo don’t furget, last chance to book. See yous next week.

14/09/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .

I tolds yous last week that I would let you know about my short holibob with mummy, daddy and littler sister.
We wents to Loch Rannoch. It was over 70 miles in the roadmonster. I don’t know why we didn’t go the way the crow flies. It is half the distance.
Anyhoo we stayed in a posh hotel and I had my own bed and was allowed to be with my famalam in the restyrant, though I was a bit worryful in my bedroom because there was a big bunny rabbit which I am sure kept staring at me and then hiding every time I looked at it.
We went to see a very very very old tree which was very very old even when daddy was born. Mummy was not allowed to hug that one but she did find another. She likes hugging trees as much as hugging me.
You can see from the piccie that she and I walked to the top of a big mountain called Schiehallion (I had help to spell that) It is famous for being the place that contours were invented and the mass of the earth was first calculamated, whatever that means.
We didn’t really climb the mountain. Ha ha. The piccie was done with Artifishul Insemination. Did it fool you?
On one of our walkses Mummy saw a sign which made her laughiful. She thinks there are a lot of signs which might be obeyed more if they had “or give death a chance” at the bottom.
Anyhoo I had the bestest time and I’m off now for snacks and snoozes. Catch you next week.

07/09/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .

I owes you alls a big apawlagy. I donts know where my head was last week.
Firstses I forgot to tell you baby piney’s new name.
You were very kind and gave us lots of suggestables.
I liked Marmite, Daddy wanted Piney Minogue (tut tut rolled eyes), Biggar sister voted for Piney McPineyface (because she was asked not to. Bigger tut tut eye roll) Littler sister voted for Haggis, and Mummy wanted Pinecone.
So piney is now called Pinecone, because as Mummy reminded us all, “This is not a democracy”. Daddy told me it is a benevolent dictatorship, and we have to make the most of the benevolences. Life is good.
So, thank you Jenny Clough and Jane Morrison for the suggestable and to everybody else who gave us ideas.

I have to say sorry too for some of the photos last week. Instadoodle and Facebonk took it upon themselves to chop them down and make them look funny and I didn’t notice before I pressed go. So, I am showing them too you again along with some others from this week.

Daddy thought my botches might have been because I have been working too hard and I deserved a holibob so we went away for a couple of days for a rest. I have come home bouncyful and reddy for the last five weeks of the season (that’s 35 doggy weeks for me).
I’ll tell yous all about our holibob next week but the first two piccies will give you a cloo as to where we went. Can you guess.

Anyhoo I’m off. Catch you next week.

31/08/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
For any of yous readin this who fancy plannin a break here I decided I would tell you what my famalams faveritful places to go and things to do are.
Daddy. His happiful day would be to take the Corran ferry and drive to Castle Tioram in Loch Moidart. There are lots of castles near us but this is his favouritest. He likes old ruins, perhaps becos he is one.
Mummy. She would go to the beaches at Camusdarach and the silvery sands of Morar. They really are beeootiful and also where her favouriteful fillum Local Hero was fillumd.
Biggar sister and her finance, Mummy’s Favourite child. Easy choice for them. They love the outdoors and a challenge, so would head for Aonach Eagach, the Notched Ridge adjoining two of the Munros that they have been bagging in Glen Coe. I would find this very scaryful and you has to know what you is doin and be prepared.
Littler sister is always happy to be in, on or near the water. She is weird. I hate baths and showers. But put her in a kayak in Cuil Bay, or Bishops Bay and she is in her element.
But what about me? There is noffin in this world that I like more than a trip to the National Trust Visitor Centre or The Linnhe at Castle Stalker with my besties for coffee. I get spoilt with tummy rubs, snackses and walkies. It makes me very exciteful.
If you fancy doing any of these things take a looks at the activities pages on www.discoverglencoe.scot . Enjoy your planning.

Anyhoo I’m off. Catch you next week.

24/08/2026

folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
No influenzaing this week. I have filled all our rooms until October so I’m havin a well-earned snooze.
Daddy is always saying how importentful it is to get peopleses names right so I was confuzzled this week when he didn’t call me Maddy or Good girl, or Maddy Moo, or Maddy the Madster which are all my soodonims. Instead he called me Puppydoo.
Puppydoo I ask you? I think he has losted the plot. Next it’ll be Maddy MacMaddy Face. He needs seriousful help methinks.
Anyhoo talkin of names we have a baby piney came knockin at the window this week. We can’t call him Piney cos that is his Daddy (or Mummy; we are not sure) so please let me have your ideases as to what you think would be a good name.
But please not Piney MacPiney Face. Leave a comment below with your idea.Don;t leave it to Daddy. Goodness knows what he would call him.
Anyhoo I must go now. Catch you next week.

17/08/2026

Halloo folkses. Maddy here, cos it’s .
It is always funful when we see some birdses in the garden for the firstest time, so Daddy was happiful to see two collared doves this week. He said to mummy that they looked like a pair of love birds, just like him and her. She gave him a very odd look. I think she thinks he is daft as a brush, but she luvs him really, though not as much as she luvs me of course. .
On Wednesday I went up the hill with Mummy and my besties to watch it go dark with something they called a pole of the clips. I took my speshul specktickles so my eyes wouldn’t hurt, but I didn’t need them as it was cloudy. Still, it was a lovely walk with my faverit peeps.
Daddy stayed at home to wait for guestses. There have been a very lot of them this week from all over the world. There have also been quite a few who knocked on the door wanting to be guests cos they had not booked anywhere. That’s not a good idea here in August, cos I have done such good infuenzaing and we are already full. I hopes they found somewhere.
Anyhoo I must go now. Catch you next week.