Karina

Saturday 12 August 2023 Yesterday, I walked over 19,000 steps according to my Fitbit. For this week at least, the Fitbit has worked at getting me walking more in Scotland … oh, but I’ve only been here two full days, so that’s not impressive. Yesterday’s walk was in the early evening and timed to coincide […]

Friday 11 August 2023 The water supply is currently good, very few midges around, extractor fan mouse hasn’t been eating through the fan and all seems kind of okay. Yesterday, it looked like autumn, grey, but it was 23°C and more humid than I’ve ever known it up here. It was the number one small-talk

Thursday 10 August 2023 Yesterday morning at 05:40, I left London for Scottish Borders, stopping once for a stretch and coffee near Retford and two wandering-about stop-offs, Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen, arriving back at our house in Scotland at around 14:45. I am still tired and not acclimatised to the significant drop in temperature,

Monday 7 August 2023 I keep thinking how many more friends I see when I’m staying in London. It’s true, I do. But it’s not a reflection of how it was when I lived here. In the week I’ve been back in London, I have seen six friends (planned) and my mum, all separate meet-ups

Saturday 5 August 2023 Today is largely all about the rain, lots of it, forecast more in London and southeast than Scotland. This has scuppered my friend Fiona and I having a long walk and picnic. We are instead meeting up in Rochester, Kent. I feel less bothered by rain than I perhaps used to,

Wednesday 2 August 2023 Day four of London-water tea and I finally can’t immediately identify the chemical taste of mains water. I had a bottle of spring water from our tap in Scotland so poured some of that into a glass, then matched it with a glass of our London tap water. I gave it