Is the Grass Greener?

Thursday 31 August 2023 There was a gorgeous, large, bright full moon last night and it’s sunny this morning for the last day of summer. I have been outside and it is chilly, properly chilly. According to the app on my laptop it is 4°C, which does not seem as inaccurate as it sounds for […]

Wednesday 30 August 2023 I can’t quite believe this is the 200th post since we moved from London to Scottish Borders in November or that tomorrow is the last day of August and of meteorological/three months of summer. This morning, 07:35, it is currently 8°C but sunny. In fact, it feels like the first fully

Monday 28 August 2023 It’s not a bank holiday in Scotland today but it’s currently sunny, albeit a mere 9°C. I had a Sunday kind of Sunday yesterday, which is exactly what I’d wanted. Other than a walk, my exercise was digging and setting the last of the nine foundation stones for my cabin. It

Sunday 27 August 2023 I’m sitting on my Mastermind chair listening to music in the slightly pretentiously-named Indian room. It was officially completed a week ago and has been used significantly more since then. There is now a speaker in one of the niches and more of the cold, hard porcelain flooring is covered by

Saturday 26 August 2023 I have discovered there is a women-plumbers company called Stopcocks. I shall be applying to work for them, in part at least because of their excellent name. I have fixed the downstairs loo. To say I am impressed with myself would be a massive understatement; I’m still bursting at the seams

Friday 25 August 2023 I can see five swallows perched on an overhead cable across our garden. We first viewed this house on 29 August last year and I remember getting out of the car and taking a photo of a row of swallows on the same stretch of cable. It’s the last summer bank