Is the Grass Greener?

Wednesday 28 June 2023 Today’s temperature around Scottish Borders is between 6°C and 15°C with periods of rain. In Lewisham, it is 17°C to 24°C and overcast. I got up shortly after half-five yesterday, worked, then had a break at about nine. I drove about four miles and parked, then walked a roundtrip to post […]

Tuesday 27 June 2023 There has been rain and it’s very good to hear so much running water around the garden again. I haven’t checked the water tank yet today but, before dinner, it was up to 58cm. Since then, I have done a second wash (the excitement of being able to use a washing

Monday 26 June 2023 There is good reason to have hope that the water problem is alleviated. In fact, I’m so optimistic that I have prepared a load of washing for the machine and last night’s shower stretched to three whole glorious minutes of hot showering. I give myself a degree of credit for isolating

Sunday 25 June 2023 Chris is currently in London, I’m in Scotland on my own. He left home at around 07:45 yesterday and didn’t get back to Lewisham until about 17:30, so almost ten hours. In fairness, for weekend engineering reasons as well as logistics with having a car and needing to leave and return

Friday 23 June 2023 It’s raining. This is good news for the health of our spring, but a bit annoying because we have friends coming round for dinner and I’d planned to cook marinated lamb chops on the chimenea outdoors. But, in these drought-y times, rain is better than chimenea-cooked lamb. As for the water,

Thursday 22 June 2023 I ordered a “Strimmer”, which I now realise is actually a brand name (Black & Decker’s string trimmer, Strimmer), so really I planned to order a grass trimmer. But I think I may have been so hung up on trying to work out what a non-Strimmer Strimmer should be called that