Karina

Tuesday 26 September 2023 I’ve been up for over two hours and not done anything I got up early to do. I’m still in Lewisham. Chris is in Scotland and, since yesterday afternoon, is without WiFi in the house, which also means no mobile phone capabilities. We do, fortunately, have a landline, albeit with party-line […]

Monday 25 September 2023 It is three months until Christmas Day. I am already fretting slightly about weather and plans for our whereabouts over Christmas. I have realised that we were lucky last year with the winter weather in Scotland, sort of. Since our road flooded and was impassable in one direction on 19 August,

Wednesday 13 September 2023 I’m sitting in the flat in London with the balcony door open. The noise from outside is astonishingly loud, children playing in the courtyard after school. More shouting than playing. There has also been the barking of an enormous dog that, staggeringly, someone keeps in their flat and lets out into

Friday 8 September 2023 I met some pilgrims walking along our road yesterday afternoon. From what I could gather, they set off from Isle of White to COP 26 in Glasgow in 2021 and are now on their way back. I have no idea what they did in the two years since then. I saw

Thursday 7 September 2023 Another misty start followed by blue sky; I’m getting used to this. Today, sunrise around us was at 06:28 with sunset at 19:50. In Lewisham, 06:22 and 19:33. So we still have slightly longer days in Scotland than in London. Our shopping errands were only half successful (didn’t stock the gate-paint

Wednesday 6 September 2023 I got up early and worked later than usual last night. The reward was an extended lunch break combined with a walk through nearby woodland and marshes and a coffee break. The weather is beautiful up here, in the twenties, a cooling breeze and sunshine. We have done three consecutive days