Is the Grass Greener?

Thursday 23 November 2023 It is extremely windy this morning and I need to walk to the roadside to see if I can shove more recycling into our bin (ie into the neighbour’s bin). It is also raining. This is the kind of weather that stops me from going outdoors for a walk so I […]

Wednesday 22 November 2023 Today will be day three of another round of Openreach engineers trying to get our fibre broadband up and running. Progress was made yesterday because we now have the three green lights we needed. However, “our” connection pole is shared with our neighbour and it seems that when ours works, the

Tuesday 21 November 2023 High drama (admittedly with a low benchmark) in the middle of nowhere, outside our house yesterday, and all within an hour. First, a logging truck caused a van driver to pull over into a ditch and sink half the van into deep mud (not Openreach this time, this one was a

Monday 20 November 2023 I still can’t quite believe we moved into our house in Scottish Borders just over a year ago. I am so happy that there is no unpacking to be done. For the first few weeks here, I remember feeling a bit broken – I was going to say physically, but probably

Saturday 18 November 2023 This time last year, Chris and I were driving from Lewisham to Scottish Borders with a car laden with our most important packing. We have now had the keys to this house for a year. I didn’t write much in my journal a year ago but within a matter of hours,

Friday 17 November 2023 I’ve just read what I wrote in my journal on this date last year. The focus in my journal was on the stress of waiting for the removal lorry to take things from Lewisham to our storage unit in Folkestone via my mum’s house near Maidstone, for the truck to then