Karina

Thursday 1 June 2023 We had a good distraction from our water issues today; friends who’d been staying an hour away stopped by for a walk and lunch on their way back home to North Yorkshire. We both enjoyed spending time with them and picking Marc’s brains on all things related to heating systems and […]

Wednesday 31 May 2023 It’s grey outside, 9°C and clouds are covering the tops of the hills, but still no rain and it’s forecast to be sunny and 19°C later. It’s 07:16 and I’ve already been to our outdoor water tank. Despite optimism that it had possibly risen by a centimetre or so above the

Tuesday 30 May 2023 Chris and I are learning a lot by living in a fairly remote, rural area of Scottish Borders, things we would never have encountered living in London. Or indeed anywhere urban. At the moment, I could easily wallow in the challenging elements as we are still without running water (it’s far

Bank Holiday Monday 29 May 2023 I thought the heating would be the most challenging of our problems. The water situation has trumped that. We now have a trickle of water coming in from the spring, with no idea how much water is still in the spring. The trickle is controlled to be just that

Saturday 27 May 2023 It’s 07:35 and I’m sitting on our decking in the sun. It’s a comfortable temperature, birds are singing and swirling around above and there is a hare eating, sitting and scratching itself in the garden. It is a truly beautiful, peaceful morning. Another side to my morning idyll is that I

Friday 26 May 2023 Yesterday was one of those days where I felt like I slowed down, in a good way. I went with Annie and Tony to Ettrick Kirk. It’s a small area, but we ended up mainly standing, looking out across the fields and around the graveyard. I think most of the hour