Is the Grass Greener?

Tuesday 4 July 2023 Chris, Angela and I drove to Kirkcudbright (“kir-coo-brie”) yesterday, had lunch, a walk around the marina and old town and Angela and I circumnavigated a coastal pathway around St Mary’s Isle. We had rain, sun, wind, chilly, hot; a reminder we are in Scotland in summer. Chris and I have recently […]

Monday 3 July 2023 [Expletive] water. Our water tank had been filling slowly and we got to about 72cm of a possible 97-ish-cm. The water coming in from the spring was a trickle a week ago, Sunday, a decent trickle, then it ever so slightly decreased and by Friday it was looking increasingly drippy. By

Sunday 2 July 2023 It’s almost 07:45 and I’ve just walked out to open the front gates. However, I have been scared off by Mrs Pheasant and what appear to be seven pheasant chicks. Chris claims to have been chased by her in a flapping and screaming frenzy when he interrupted her escorting her chicks

Saturday 1 July July. July. It is chilly, raining, grey and windy and this morning I had to shut the bedroom windows as it was so cold. But rain is good and not being as hot as it was a couple of weeks ago is also good. My friend Angela arrived mid-afternoon yesterday. In the

Friday 30 June 2023 My friend Angela is arriving this afternoon from Kent via a night in Kendal. I am not expecting her before midday so my plan is to do some work this morning, as indeed I have already been doing (it’s 09:01), then a time-pressure clean and tidy, which is when I am

Thursday 29 June 2023 Walking along a stretch of road near our house for the first time, a road I have driven along countless times, I realised how much more there is to see than just the blur of loveliness as I drive past. It annoys me that I don’t know the names for a