Is the Grass Greener?

Thursday 28 September 2023 Who’d have thought it, I’m now in possession of a pair of PPE-guaranteed steel-capped Dunlop boots. Possibly overkill but I’ve had a few near misses with forks and spades recently and I don’t have ‘cheap’, non-welly footwear that I’m not too bothered about getting muddy. I also nearly bought a hi-vi […]

Wednesday 27 September 2023 I have been away from Scotland for just over two weeks, in Lanzarote for eight days and London for eight days and probably another few days. I have thought a lot about the differences in my daily life in Scotland compared to London and where I want to be. There are

Tuesday 26 September 2023 I’ve been up for over two hours and not done anything I got up early to do. I’m still in Lewisham. Chris is in Scotland and, since yesterday afternoon, is without WiFi in the house, which also means no mobile phone capabilities. We do, fortunately, have a landline, albeit with party-line

Monday 25 September 2023 It is three months until Christmas Day. I am already fretting slightly about weather and plans for our whereabouts over Christmas. I have realised that we were lucky last year with the winter weather in Scotland, sort of. Since our road flooded and was impassable in one direction on 19 August,

Wednesday 13 September 2023 I’m sitting in the flat in London with the balcony door open. The noise from outside is astonishingly loud, children playing in the courtyard after school. More shouting than playing. There has also been the barking of an enormous dog that, staggeringly, someone keeps in their flat and lets out into

Friday 8 September 2023 I met some pilgrims walking along our road yesterday afternoon. From what I could gather, they set off from Isle of White to COP 26 in Glasgow in 2021 and are now on their way back. I have no idea what they did in the two years since then. I saw