Karina

Wednesday 17 May 2023 The drive to Scottish Borders from Lewisham wasn’t too bad yesterday, in large part because I left just after 05:30 and I don’t think I had to stop for any lights or roundabouts (‘just’ a roadworks hold-up on the A1) until I parked up at Wetherby Services at around 09:15. I […]

Sunday 14 May 2023 I’m still in London. I’ve had a great few days and more revelations and altered perspectives than I could have imagined. I got back to Lewisham on Tuesday and have so far seen my mum and my friends Nana, Rachael, Duncan, Sarah, Catherine and Ciaran, all on a one-on-one basis –

Wednesday 10 May 2023 I drove from Scottish Borders to Lewisham yesterday, the first time driving on my own. It’s a lot easier and less tiring being able to share the driving, but it was kind of okay. I left at 06:20, stopped for about half an hour, was delayed by maybe twenty minutes with

Bank Holiday Monday 8 May 2023 At some point this afternoon the water in our main outdoor tank from the spring was just below the outlet pipe, meaning no water going into the house to fill up the water tanks. For a while, the water that was going in was muddy. It has rained pretty

Sunday 7 May 2023 I got up and went to fill two toilet-flushing buckets of water from the hot tub – long story – and carried on up the hill to check on our water tank. As I passed our little stream, which has been little more than a trickle for the past month or

Saturday 6 May 2023 Being off mains water, even though you don’t have to pay for water, is not something to be recommended overall, I’d say. Our water does taste and feel special and spring water in your home is a lovely thing. But you still have to pay for waste (in the form of