Is the Grass Greener?

Sunday 7 May 2023 I got up and went to fill two toilet-flushing buckets of water from the hot tub – long story – and carried on up the hill to check on our water tank. As I passed our little stream, which has been little more than a trickle for the past month or […]

Saturday 6 May 2023 Being off mains water, even though you don’t have to pay for water, is not something to be recommended overall, I’d say. Our water does taste and feel special and spring water in your home is a lovely thing. But you still have to pay for waste (in the form of

Friday 5 May 2023 Water has become the new heating in that water is now the hot topic and the subject on which we are talking about above all else. It would seem that my comments yesterday about sort of missing rain were even more pertinent than I could have realised. It has been grey

Thursday 4 May 2023 Sunrise was 05:25 (05:26 in Lewisham), sunset is at 20:53 (20:27 in Lewisham). It’s currently 5°C with a feels-like of 1°C (10°C currently and feels like 10°C in Lewisham). The high for today around Selkirk is 10°C and in Lewisham it’s 19°C. I’m very surprised to think this but it feels

Wednesday 3 May 2023 Our friends Fiona and Andy set off for a few nights near Castle Barnard (will there ever not be a joke about eyesight whenever anyone mentions Castle Barnard now?!) yesterday morning. The four of us first had a wander round Samye Ling Temple, which, as it always is, was incredibly peaceful

Tuesday 2 May 2023 Yesterday, we walked a lot off-road. Today I feel pleasantly tired. It wasn’t beautiful weather but it didn’t rain and every now and then, particularly in the morning, the sun came out and everywhere that already looks gorgeous looked even more beautiful. We walked through and alongside so many fields of