Karina

Good Friday 7 April 2023 I hung washing out yesterday on our newly-installed rotary dryer. I have not had a proper outdoor drying set-up since childhood. It was windy and sunny and it all dried. Very satisfying. There may be a frost this morning and I did have to warm up by wrapping myself in […]

Thursday 6 April 2023 It is, without doubt, significantly more interesting and easier to think of memorable things to do in London than Scottish Borders when it is a grey, wet day. Chris and I went to Selkirk and Melrose with Nicky in the morning, then Nicky and I also went to Hawick. It is

Wednesday 5 April 2023 Nicky and I were absolutely knackered when we got back to the house yesterday. We walked around St Mary’s Loch, stopping for a quick picnic lunch and a coffee and Selkirk Bannock (a kind of bready panettone-fruit cake). With a detour to the remains of a 1500s tower, we ‘only’ walked

Tuesday 4 April 2023 Our first visitor by car, Nicky, arrived yesterday shortly before 18:00. As soon as she had parked up and brought her stuff in, we all went up the garden. A beautiful, sunny, mild evening, hardly a breeze. Nicky and I carried on walking, going up one of the logging tracks, walking

Monday 3 April 2023 Yesterday afternoon, it was so sunny and warm that we sat on a bench in the garden to eat lunch, sat on a bench in the woods to admire the view and quiet and I hugged a tree. Thanks to the sunshine, I even enjoyed cleaning upstairs ahead of today’s visitor,

Saturday 1 April 2023 Well, that was an entertaining and interesting night. We had not been out in the evening since moving to Scotland and certainly not driven home after 23:00 in the dark. Neither had we been to a gig here before, nor one in an old community hall surrounded by fields, sheep, hills,