Karina

Monday 26 June 2023 There is good reason to have hope that the water problem is alleviated. In fact, I’m so optimistic that I have prepared a load of washing for the machine and last night’s shower stretched to three whole glorious minutes of hot showering. I give myself a degree of credit for isolating […]

Sunday 25 June 2023 Chris is currently in London, I’m in Scotland on my own. He left home at around 07:45 yesterday and didn’t get back to Lewisham until about 17:30, so almost ten hours. In fairness, for weekend engineering reasons as well as logistics with having a car and needing to leave and return

Friday 23 June 2023 It’s raining. This is good news for the health of our spring, but a bit annoying because we have friends coming round for dinner and I’d planned to cook marinated lamb chops on the chimenea outdoors. But, in these drought-y times, rain is better than chimenea-cooked lamb. As for the water,

Thursday 22 June 2023 I ordered a “Strimmer”, which I now realise is actually a brand name (Black & Decker’s string trimmer, Strimmer), so really I planned to order a grass trimmer. But I think I may have been so hung up on trying to work out what a non-Strimmer Strimmer should be called that

Wednesday 21 June 2023 I can’t quite believe it’s the longest day already. Sunrise and sunset around the house in Scottish Borders is 04:27 and 21:58 (with no nightfall/complete darkness) and the temperature variation is predicted as 8°C to 18°C with a mix of sun, cloud and a possible hour of light rain. In Lewisham,

Tuesday 20 June 2023 After the rain of Saturday night, I walked around the garden and round the forestry track and back along the road, my ‘patrol’ route of around 1,500 steps. The bottom of my trousers, in fact up to above my knees, got wet. I stood by the river bank for a while