Is the Grass Greener?

Wednesday 26 July 2023 Apparently, it’s going to rain by lunch time. It’s 07:43 and my first ‘stress’ of the day is whether it’s worth trying to hang the washing out for a few hours. We will hopefully have a roofer coming round today to do some small repairs, the kind he can do in […]

Tuesday 25 July 2023 Yesterday, my friend Becky and I finished digging over the area where the cabin will go. It does not look like we have done anywhere near as much as it felt like we did. The ground is full of stones and roots. By the time we finished, on top of the

Sunday 23 July 2023 It’s 07:26 and I’m in the midst of a yawn fest. Outside, it’s apparently 11°C and I don’t need an app to tell me that it’s raining, raining with determination. The plan for today is/was for my visiting friend Becky and I to make a start on the foundations for the

Saturday 22 July 2023 It’s raining. It’s forecast to rain until Monday. My friend Becky is arriving this afternoon for a few nights. The plan was for us to start work on my cabin project but I’m fairly sure that’s not going to happen with continual rain, but I might be slightly underestimating Becky’s determination

Friday 21 July 2023 I had some shopping errands, though not urgent ones, and an enthusiasm for a city fix, so I drove/caught the train to Edinburgh yesterday. I walked a lot, had plenty of coffee/cake/ice cream treats (toffee popcorn ice cream; hello, why had we never been acquainted before?). I take it back, no