Is the Grass Greener?

Moving from London to rural Scotland

111. Is the Grass Greener? A day with friends trying to dodge the rain

Bank Holiday Monday 1 May 2023 May. It’s May. How the [expletive] is it May already? It’s shortly before 08:00. Mitch is already outside and on the roof of the shed he’s constructing around the frame of what was once, apparently, a pig shed. Chris is in the shower, which will have been scalding. We […]

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110. Is the Grass Greener? The joy of noisy DIY and loud music in the middle of nowhere

Saturday 29 April 2023 It’s before 08:00 and we seem to be ready for our bank holiday weekend visitors, Fiona and Andy. They left Folkestone at 06:15 and have already encountered an unplanned chunk of motorway closure. Having visitors makes us get on with things. We had a flurry of activity yesterday afternoon, putting up

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108. Is the Grass Greener? Gardening inadequacy and late April frost and hail

Wednesday 26 April 2023 It’s the second consecutive day of frost. Fortunately, when I needed a reliable and continuous WiFi connection for work yesterday, the silicon glue connecting our exposed WiFi cable coped fine with the frost and hail. There was hail in the gutter this morning and apparently it’s minus 2°C; sub-[expletive]-zero. Frost barely

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