Karina

Friday 5 May 2023 Water has become the new heating in that water is now the hot topic and the subject on which we are talking about above all else. It would seem that my comments yesterday about sort of missing rain were even more pertinent than I could have realised. It has been grey […]

Thursday 4 May 2023 Sunrise was 05:25 (05:26 in Lewisham), sunset is at 20:53 (20:27 in Lewisham). It’s currently 5°C with a feels-like of 1°C (10°C currently and feels like 10°C in Lewisham). The high for today around Selkirk is 10°C and in Lewisham it’s 19°C. I’m very surprised to think this but it feels

Wednesday 3 May 2023 Our friends Fiona and Andy set off for a few nights near Castle Barnard (will there ever not be a joke about eyesight whenever anyone mentions Castle Barnard now?!) yesterday morning. The four of us first had a wander round Samye Ling Temple, which, as it always is, was incredibly peaceful

Tuesday 2 May 2023 Yesterday, we walked a lot off-road. Today I feel pleasantly tired. It wasn’t beautiful weather but it didn’t rain and every now and then, particularly in the morning, the sun came out and everywhere that already looks gorgeous looked even more beautiful. We walked through and alongside so many fields of

Bank Holiday Monday 1 May 2023 May. It’s May. How the [expletive] is it May already? It’s shortly before 08:00. Mitch is already outside and on the roof of the shed he’s constructing around the frame of what was once, apparently, a pig shed. Chris is in the shower, which will have been scalding. We

Saturday 29 April 2023 It’s before 08:00 and we seem to be ready for our bank holiday weekend visitors, Fiona and Andy. They left Folkestone at 06:15 and have already encountered an unplanned chunk of motorway closure. Having visitors makes us get on with things. We had a flurry of activity yesterday afternoon, putting up