Karina

Wednesday 29 November 2023 I got a lift with Chris about four miles down the road before 08:00 this morning. He was on his way to Nice, I was on my way to the closest letterbox and back home. The temperature was -6°C according to the car, and it also felt distinctly subzero. I had […]

Tuesday 28 November 2023 This morning, while it was still dark and I could hardly see out some windows through the layer of ice, Facebook showed me that I had spent the day lying on the beach in Ajman, UAE, with a friend this time four years ago and I had posted photos of the

Monday 27 November 2023 We have added to our list of professional tradespeople by having a chimney sweep pay us a visit, at 8am on Saturday morning when it was roughly -7.5°C. I left home at 8am, waving hello and goodbye to the chimney sweep as we passed car/van. Chris said he was at the

Friday 24 November 2023 I have been reading my journal from this time last year. I don’t remember doing as much as we did in the first week of living here. I suppose I just thought it was all unpacking and sorting. I am now being reminded how utterly exhausted I was, physically but also

Thursday 23 November 2023 It is extremely windy this morning and I need to walk to the roadside to see if I can shove more recycling into our bin (ie into the neighbour’s bin). It is also raining. This is the kind of weather that stops me from going outdoors for a walk so I

Wednesday 22 November 2023 Today will be day three of another round of Openreach engineers trying to get our fibre broadband up and running. Progress was made yesterday because we now have the three green lights we needed. However, “our” connection pole is shared with our neighbour and it seems that when ours works, the