Is the Grass Greener?

Wednesday 8 March 2023 It’s 07:56 and I’ve been up for an hour, largely admiring the frost and sunshine and looking at pictures in the news of London and the southeast with snow. It’s apparently minus seven here. It looks beautiful though, especially now the sky is so blue. Food-wise, we are adequately stocked up […]

Tuesday 7 March 2023 This morning, it’s frosty, the sun is shining, there is seemingly no breeze and the forecast says it’s minus-five with a feels-like temperature of minus-eight degrees Celsius. I’ve just drunk a mug of tea, I’m wearing thermal long johns and a high-necked thermal top under my jumper and cargo trousers, I

Monday 6 March 2023 Now I’ve discovered the ‘delay’ setting on our washing machine, I often time my washes to coincide with the ‘economy’ electricity tariff between 04:10 and 07:10. I have just hung out a wash because it was partially sunny. As soon as I got back indoors and looked out the window, it

Saturday 4 March 2023 I have hung the washing outdoors. I could tell this was overly optimistic as soon as I went out and realised the sun was deceptive; it’s quite chilly. Hmm, my laptop app says it’s one degree above freezing. Anyway, it looks sunny enough for clothes to be hanging outdoors. Yesterday, taking

Friday 3 March 2023 It’s 07:28, sunrise was at 06:59 (06:42 in Lewisham) and sunset will be 17:51 (17:43 in Lewisham). The longer days are good for the Beast from the East v2 that the news has been banging on about for weeks. This morning, we’re swapping Friday for Sunday, having a day off today,

Thursday 2 March 2023 I’m having an up and down week. On Monday, I felt overwhelmed by dwelling, festering and stressing about as much as I seemingly could dwell, fester and stress about. On Tuesday, I felt great, got a lot of writing and work done and things felt really positive. Yesterday, I had a