Lifestyle

New Year’s Eve 2023 I’ve always felt kind of sorry for the last few days in December. Reviews of the year have usually already been done but so much could still happen on these end-of-year days. That said, I have no reason to think anything dramatic is going to happen today, but there’s no reason

Sunday 24 December 2023 Not only is it one day to Christmas, it’s a week until the last day of December and thus the end of 2023. I am still not feeling particularly festive, despite having been in central London yesterday. I wanted to walk around central London early morning before shops open and crowds

Saturday 23 December 2023 How on earth is it Christmas Day on Monday, in two days? I am back in London, hoping to be able to have Christmas as planned at my mum’s. I feel fine from Covid but will test again tomorrow and mum and I will make a decision about my staying there.

Wednesday 20 December 2023 I’ve only gone and got Covid. I thought I had a cold, a bit of post-travel sniffle and headache. Then I noticed a headline on an online newsfeed about less common symptoms of the current Covid variation. Hmm, that headache, not as interested in snacking as usual, occasionally feeling a bit

Tuesday 19 December 2023 The roads in this area are littered with pheasants, dead and alive. A lot of them come from pheasant farms (I doubt they’re called that) and are bred to be shot. When I was driving home on Saturday, a narrow road near Lockerbie was made even narrower (it’s not a busy