Is the Grass Greener?

Friday 1 December 2023 Yeah, it’s definitely winter. The app on my computer is telling me that it’s -6°C and outside is white from frost on snow on frost. I’m sitting in my office with the oil-filled radiator on and I’m still cold. I am wearing wrist warmers and my hands are still cold. I […]

Thursday 30 November 2023 No, I am most definitely not ready for (A) December or (B) to be thinking about any element of Christmas. I have a December-floodgates-open kind of mindset. Today, however, looks like it’s December already because there is snow! Okay, so it’s just a light covering, but it is still most definitely

Wednesday 29 November 2023 I got a lift with Chris about four miles down the road before 08:00 this morning. He was on his way to Nice, I was on my way to the closest letterbox and back home. The temperature was -6°C according to the car, and it also felt distinctly subzero. I had

Tuesday 28 November 2023 This morning, while it was still dark and I could hardly see out some windows through the layer of ice, Facebook showed me that I had spent the day lying on the beach in Ajman, UAE, with a friend this time four years ago and I had posted photos of the

Monday 27 November 2023 We have added to our list of professional tradespeople by having a chimney sweep pay us a visit, at 8am on Saturday morning when it was roughly -7.5°C. I left home at 8am, waving hello and goodbye to the chimney sweep as we passed car/van. Chris said he was at the

Friday 24 November 2023 I have been reading my journal from this time last year. I don’t remember doing as much as we did in the first week of living here. I suppose I just thought it was all unpacking and sorting. I am now being reminded how utterly exhausted I was, physically but also