Is the Grass Greener?

Monday 5 June 2023 I had an impressive over-achievey day yesterday, which also doubled as a satisfying-exercise day. It was a Mitch day so I had decided to do chores for the duration of his working day; someone else being busy and working around the house/garden is an incredibly good motivator for me to get […]

Friday 2 June 2023 It is a beautiful sunny day and it is now June, thus officially summer. I have hung out a wash and the washing machine is on again. I feel a mild sense of hope that the water situation has settled a bit, though it’s far from resolved. It is also a

Thursday 1 June 2023 We had a good distraction from our water issues today; friends who’d been staying an hour away stopped by for a walk and lunch on their way back home to North Yorkshire. We both enjoyed spending time with them and picking Marc’s brains on all things related to heating systems and

Wednesday 31 May 2023 It’s grey outside, 9°C and clouds are covering the tops of the hills, but still no rain and it’s forecast to be sunny and 19°C later. It’s 07:16 and I’ve already been to our outdoor water tank. Despite optimism that it had possibly risen by a centimetre or so above the

Tuesday 30 May 2023 Chris and I are learning a lot by living in a fairly remote, rural area of Scottish Borders, things we would never have encountered living in London. Or indeed anywhere urban. At the moment, I could easily wallow in the challenging elements as we are still without running water (it’s far

Bank Holiday Monday 29 May 2023 I thought the heating would be the most challenging of our problems. The water situation has trumped that. We now have a trickle of water coming in from the spring, with no idea how much water is still in the spring. The trickle is controlled to be just that