Karina

Wednesday 4 October 2023 I had a ridiculously productive day yesterday, though a less productive element was staring at the banister I had painted in five different colours but which is now – well, shabby chic, distressed or, my term, horrid. Due in large part to my not preparing the banister properly before painting it, […]

Tuesday 3 October 2023 A large formation of birds have just flown past, probably water foul heading south for warmer weather. Some time between my leaving Scotland on 12 September and Chris arriving back on 24 September, the last of the swallows left for Africa. I don’t blame them, it really has got chillier here,

Monday 2 October 2023 It’s 10:51 and we are awaiting the arrival of telecoms engineers to hopefully repair whatever is wrong with our WiFi and to get us ready for fibre broadband from 10 October. Fortunately, one of our three WiFi signals is working (the outdoor one) so we can do basic things online. It’s

Sunday 1 October 2023 October. It’s October already. It’s not quite 07:00 and sunrise isn’t for another fifteen minutes so it’s quite dark. For the first time since maybe April, I’m sitting in the kitchen with the curtains closed. I drove back to Scotland from Lewisham yesterday. It took me less than the ten hours

Thursday 28 September 2023 Who’d have thought it, I’m now in possession of a pair of PPE-guaranteed steel-capped Dunlop boots. Possibly overkill but I’ve had a few near misses with forks and spades recently and I don’t have ‘cheap’, non-welly footwear that I’m not too bothered about getting muddy. I also nearly bought a hi-vi

Wednesday 27 September 2023 I have been away from Scotland for just over two weeks, in Lanzarote for eight days and London for eight days and probably another few days. I have thought a lot about the differences in my daily life in Scotland compared to London and where I want to be. There are