Karina

Thursday 14 December 2023 It is 20:13 and outside is apparently 20°C. I am in Doha, my first trip back to the Middle East in the almost-four years since the pandemic. I don’t think I have ever enjoyed sunshine and warmth as much as this. Yes, I love living in Scotland (and it’s not like […]

Thursday 7 December 2023 It’s 18:42 and I’m sitting in the living room with the balcony door open, and I’m still a bit too warm. I am most definitely in London. It is a lot easier to appreciate and sort of prefer this warm flat in winter compared to the bitterly cold house in Scotland.

Tuesday 5 December 2023 I attended a community council meeting last night in a village hall a forty-minute drive from home. I wanted to go to support the need for something to be done about the flood which cuts off our road in heavy rain, which then causes the river to flow over the road.

Monday 4 December 2023 It’s been a weekend of snow. Today it is grey, wet and windy and the last of the snow has pretty much gone. I had an amazing walk in a thin layer of snow in the woods yesterday, one of those walks that makes you feel that all is good with

Friday 1 December 2023 Yeah, it’s definitely winter. The app on my computer is telling me that it’s -6°C and outside is white from frost on snow on frost. I’m sitting in my office with the oil-filled radiator on and I’m still cold. I am wearing wrist warmers and my hands are still cold. I

Thursday 30 November 2023 No, I am most definitely not ready for (A) December or (B) to be thinking about any element of Christmas. I have a December-floodgates-open kind of mindset. Today, however, looks like it’s December already because there is snow! Okay, so it’s just a light covering, but it is still most definitely