Is the Grass Greener?

Wednesday 12 April 2023 I’m kind of between holidays. Our friend Duncan is staying, and today we’re all heading to Edinburgh for a few nights. As with most visitors, something fairly dramatic happened. We picked Duncan up from Tweedbank station on Saturday afternoon, had a seeing-and-eating-and-walking afternoon, came back to the house, dinner, chat; normal […]

Saturday 8 April 2023 I have just waxed the kitchen table in honour of our guest, Duncan, who’s currently on his way from Inverness to stay with us. I have most definitely never waxed a table in someone’s honour. I have also emptied out the water in the bottom of the dishwasher (about a month

Good Friday 7 April 2023 I hung washing out yesterday on our newly-installed rotary dryer. I have not had a proper outdoor drying set-up since childhood. It was windy and sunny and it all dried. Very satisfying. There may be a frost this morning and I did have to warm up by wrapping myself in

Thursday 6 April 2023 It is, without doubt, significantly more interesting and easier to think of memorable things to do in London than Scottish Borders when it is a grey, wet day. Chris and I went to Selkirk and Melrose with Nicky in the morning, then Nicky and I also went to Hawick. It is

Wednesday 5 April 2023 Nicky and I were absolutely knackered when we got back to the house yesterday. We walked around St Mary’s Loch, stopping for a quick picnic lunch and a coffee and Selkirk Bannock (a kind of bready panettone-fruit cake). With a detour to the remains of a 1500s tower, we ‘only’ walked

Tuesday 4 April 2023 Our first visitor by car, Nicky, arrived yesterday shortly before 18:00. As soon as she had parked up and brought her stuff in, we all went up the garden. A beautiful, sunny, mild evening, hardly a breeze. Nicky and I carried on walking, going up one of the logging tracks, walking