Karina

Monday 28 August 2023 It’s not a bank holiday in Scotland today but it’s currently sunny, albeit a mere 9°C. I had a Sunday kind of Sunday yesterday, which is exactly what I’d wanted. Other than a walk, my exercise was digging and setting the last of the nine foundation stones for my cabin. It […]

Sunday 27 August 2023 I’m sitting on my Mastermind chair listening to music in the slightly pretentiously-named Indian room. It was officially completed a week ago and has been used significantly more since then. There is now a speaker in one of the niches and more of the cold, hard porcelain flooring is covered by

Saturday 26 August 2023 I have discovered there is a women-plumbers company called Stopcocks. I shall be applying to work for them, in part at least because of their excellent name. I have fixed the downstairs loo. To say I am impressed with myself would be a massive understatement; I’m still bursting at the seams

Friday 25 August 2023 I can see five swallows perched on an overhead cable across our garden. We first viewed this house on 29 August last year and I remember getting out of the car and taking a photo of a row of swallows on the same stretch of cable. It’s the last summer bank

Thursday 24 August 2023 The flush mechanism for our downstairs loo has broken. My friends Su, Will and Ella were visiting for a few hours on their way further north on Friday and fortunately I was showing them round the house so discovered that the flush was still pouring water, roughly an hour and a

Wednesday 23 August 2023 Yesterday, it rained on and off all day and the only hour or so of sunshine happened to be when I went out to the letterbox and for a walk at around 17:30. Carla, who’d been staying Saturday to Monday, had arrived on Saturday late afternoon wearing shorts and a vest