Karina

Thursday 12 October 2023 It’s zero degrees and there is frost. The kitchen, which has been chilly for a while, had not got below 14°C, went up to 16°C for a day last week but is now 13°C. Last winter, it was down to 7°C. I think that isn’t that cold, but indoors, trust me, […]

Wednesday 11 October 2023 Today and yesterday, we have had an Openreach engineer getting us ready for fibre broadband. As with seemingly everything about living out here, there have been issues, including that the cable will need to be laid underground rather than above ground due to some height issues (even that’s not straightforward, one

Tuesday 10 October 2023 My friend Lindsay stayed with us from Thursday to Monday. Despite the heavy rain on Friday, particularly Saturday and a small amount on Sunday morning, we had walks every day. On Sunday, we left home at 07:30 to drive to Samye Ling for an 08:00 to 09:00 silent meditation session at

Saturday 7 October 2023 It is raining. A lot. The river at the bottom of the garden is wider and considerably more exciting than usual and the odds are extremely high that our road is flooded and impassable for our cars. We had already realised we wouldn’t be able to go to Edinburgh today as

Friday 6 October 2023 It’s 07:34 and apparently it’s 13°C. I have opened two of the kitchen windows as there have been two enormous flies buzzing around since yesterday. One has exited the window, the other has disappeared, but I know not out the window. You’d think, looking out the window, it would be significantly

Thursday 5 October 2023 When we first moved to Scottish Borders in mid-November last year, we only once drove in the dark and only a few times at dusk. We didn’t know the roads particularly well, there was a lot of rain and a lot of flooding and, worst of all, a lot of ice,