Karina

Sunday 9 July 2023 It rained a lot last night, water levels in the river are higher than they have been for about two months, all the streams and squishy bits in the garden are wet and my trousers are wet from walking around the long, wet grass just now. The water tank is also […]

Friday 7 July 2023 It’s raining, windy and chilly-looking but is apparently 14°C and it’s not even 07:30. I have just been watching a hare in the garden, happily munching away at our lawn. We think it’s a young hare as it doesn’t seem to have yet realised the perils of so often being so

Thursday 6 July 2023 King Charles is visiting Galashiels and Selkirk today so there are road closures around. Chris is driving to Innerleithen this morning to have a new tyre fitted and is hoping that (A) the slow puncture doesn’t speed up and leave him stranded or that (B) that doesn’t happen when a royal

Wednesday 5 July 2023 It is 06:46 and sunny. Yesterday’s wash is already hanging outside in the sun. Washing done with a washing machine. We have a change in the water situation. We’ve gone from nothing going into our outdoor tank, not even a drip, on Sunday through to Monday night. Then, with assistance from

Tuesday 4 July 2023 Chris, Angela and I drove to Kirkcudbright (“kir-coo-brie”) yesterday, had lunch, a walk around the marina and old town and Angela and I circumnavigated a coastal pathway around St Mary’s Isle. We had rain, sun, wind, chilly, hot; a reminder we are in Scotland in summer. Chris and I have recently

Monday 3 July 2023 [Expletive] water. Our water tank had been filling slowly and we got to about 72cm of a possible 97-ish-cm. The water coming in from the spring was a trickle a week ago, Sunday, a decent trickle, then it ever so slightly decreased and by Friday it was looking increasingly drippy. By