Is the Grass Greener?

Monday 27 March 2023 It is good to be back in the middle of nowhere. Neither a positive nor a negative, it feels like we were away for much longer than a week. I wonder if, the more time we spend in our quiet and more solitary and less frenetic life in Scotland, the bigger […]

Friday 24 March 2023 I’m wondering how I would feel if we had moved from the house in Scotland to where I am now, in a flat in Lewisham. Even though “is the grass greener?” is an idiom referring to things you don’t have seeming to be better than those you do have, I don’t

Wednesday 23 March 2023 I met my friend Fiona in Hastings yesterday. It was very windy and rained most of the day, the kind of misty clouds of rain that make you far wetter than you expect. I had somehow convinced myself that that kind of weather is just in Scotland. I am at risk

Tuesday 21 March 2023 I’m sitting in my favourite ugly-but-very-comfy armchair at home in Lewisham next to the balcony door, which is wide open. It’s 08:04, grey and looking like it’ll rain. My laptop app suggested 6°C with a feels-like of 4°C. I was thinking it felt warmer. That is the temperature for Selkirk. It’s

Monday 20 March 2023 We had a more tedious than usual drive back to London on Saturday. We left Scottish Borders at 08:25 and didn’t get to Lewisham until about 17:30. All was good until we got near Peterborough on the A1. We hadn’t known that a chunk of the A1 south would be closed

Friday 17 March 2023 I have sort of made a headboard. Well, visualised? Conceived? I had the idea for the headboard based on another house we saw and how they had made a headboard which essentially created a wall to conceal the sloping wall that was down too low to be of use. That’s not