Is the Grass Greener?

Tuesday 28 February 2023 I spent too much time yesterday dwelling on ‘stuff’, both in terms of this move and my work and income. Regarding the move, fortunately it’s not the case that I’m questioning whether it was the right thing to do, moving somewhere so far removed from pretty much everything that is familiar […]

Monday 27 February 2023 I thought the extractor fan mouse had gone. It had been over a week since it left its calling card (a solitary poo), but this morning I found another one. I mind less about it now and am still surprisingly okay about mice seemingly entering the roof at dusk and leaving

Friday 24 February 2023 Chris and I, along with our neighbour, stood in a row watching in amazement as an enormous nine-and-a-bit-foot-wide tractor with a tanker attached to the back reversed – yes, reversed – across our bridge, which is nine-foot, and back a further sixty metres. The enormous tyres were slightly wider than the

Thursday 23 February 2023 Good news on the poo. We have found a farmer (licenced) to empty our septic tank. Annoying news is that I had been planning to go to Edinburgh today, maybe even meeting a couple of friends there, but now I can’t as Chris has Zoom meetings today. Instead, I’m planning on

Wednesday 22 February 2023 I’ve been sitting for at least five minutes looking out the window as the sun rises and the sky is slowly lightening. I can see trees, a large hill beyond and garden birds zooming around. There is bird song, but otherwise I can only hear the ticking of a clock on