Monday 21 November 2022 We are now in possession of the keys to our new home in Scotland, and have been for three days already. So much for the honeymoon period of daily writing. This is the first time I have felt able to write. It’s 07:51, I’m on our sofa opposite the dying embers […]
1. Is the Grass Greener? The first few days Read More »
My partner, Chris, and I are moving from a tenth-floor flat with a balcony in the inner London borough of Lewisham to a Georgian house with two-and-a-half acres in a remote area of the Scottish Borders. I am planning to write a regular blog, return to taking proper photographs rather than mainly just camera-phone snaps
Is the Grass Greener? Moving from London to rural Scotland Read More »
Walking along the side of a muddy path, having deemed the right-hand-side to be the easiest route, the route least likely to end in muddy disaster, I felt committed to my path. Towards the end of the path, it became apparent that the people behind me who had taken the left bank clearly knew what
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner Read More »
I recently followed my first ever Burmese recipe, for a lamb meatball curry, to a surprisingly successful conclusion. I had never knowingly eaten Burmese food and neither did I know much about Burma-now-Myanmar and its cuisine. The recipe listed sixteen ingredients, which is on the cusp of being too many for the likelihood of not
One of the most seemingly pointless yet utterly delightful books in my possession is How to Wrap Five Eggs. You can probably guess its theme fairly accurately by title alone. Books can give pleasure from their content, but also for how they make you feel and what they make you think about. A beginner’s Guide
A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer Read More »
9/10 You know that little box in Zoom/video chats where you can see yourself moving and talking and, usually in my case, not revealing your best side? Well, I saw myself the other day with a series of small, but most-definitely-prominent, undulating rolls of neck-squidge. I stretched my neck, tried that trick of rubbing my
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron Read More »
