Karina

Friday 28 April 2023 I set off for Edinburgh yesterday at 08:10, back home again at 18:30. I had needed to do a food shop so could have just gone to Galashiels, but the allure of a long city walk and another Edinburgh-explore easily won. I also had an idea that I might find a […]

Wednesday 26 April 2023 It’s the second consecutive day of frost. Fortunately, when I needed a reliable and continuous WiFi connection for work yesterday, the silicon glue connecting our exposed WiFi cable coped fine with the frost and hail. There was hail in the gutter this morning and apparently it’s minus 2°C; sub-[expletive]-zero. Frost barely

Monday 24 April 2023 I finished painting the area we keep referring to, slightly pretentiously-sounding, as the Indian room. Two walls are now four coats of Fish Tale, a teal Valspar paint from B&Q. Unbelievably, it has come out looking exactly the colour I’d hoped for. I also did two coats of Petticoat Pink around

Sunday 23 April 2023 Today is overachievement day as Mitch is here for the day. Today, he will largely be constructing a shed around the frame of an old pig shed and there might be some lawn mowing with a ride-on mower, which sadly isn’t ours. I might actually enjoy mowing if I had a

Friday 21 April 2023 My friends, Catherine and Chris, arrived yesterday lunchtime and continued their journey back south this morning. Although windy, it was a beautiful sunny day yesterday. We had a restorative walk through woodland and marshes, climbing over fallen trees (only one of us slipped over, though she did it so discreetly I

Thursday 20 April 2023 I’ve been a bit remiss about my patrols around the garden and round to the road of late. I take photographs of certain places around the area to hopefully get a better idea of how it all changes over the year. It had never occurred to me to take regular photos