Is the Grass Greener?

Thursday 26 January 2023 I’m sitting in my favourite chair in our flat in Lewisham, looking out across a sliver of urban London life. A train has just rattled past, the main road below is rush-hour busy and I can see tens of flats and houses and a petrol station. It’s a familiar sight, we’ve […]

Tuesday 24 January 2023 It is grey and there is misty rain and fog. Today, I have a lot I need to do and hope to do, ranging from researching the next agent to submit to, to putting up another set of curtains now that we have more curtain rings. This time tomorrow, we’ll be

Monday 23 January 2023 I feel like I’ve written “Monday” far too frequently as the date in 2023; this month is whizzing along now. Kind of. Other than on the tops of hills and a few sheltered patches, the snow has gone, replaced by muddy earth. Kyla’s train is around 15:15 so we’ll have time

Sunday 22 January 2023 No alarms went off yesterday, for the third consecutive night the mouse didn’t leave its single dropping and some shards of plastic fan beneath the plastic fan, we just about kept warm by being wrapped in woollen blankets and there were no slips or falls in the snow or ice. And

Saturday 21 January 2023 Our first visitor, Kyla, arrived at Lockerbie station yesterday afternoon, a beautiful, sunny day. Chris and I realised we haven’t socialised at all in 2023 so I think we’ve been talking non-stop to (at?!) her. While sitting in the Tesco Lockerbie carpark eating a warmed-up sausage roll (me) and a haggis

Friday 20 January 2023 According to my computer, it’s one degree with a feels-like temperature of minus two outdoors. Indoors, it’s seven degrees. Maybe we were broken in gently with heating problems. Maybe the multi-fuel burner with the crucial tap turned off (the one that allowed the heat to circulate) was an introduction, then we