Lifestyle

Saturday 5 August 2023 Today is largely all about the rain, lots of it, forecast more in London and southeast than Scotland. This has scuppered my friend Fiona and I having a long walk and picnic. We are instead meeting up in Rochester, Kent. I feel less bothered by rain than I perhaps used to, […]

Wednesday 2 August 2023 Day four of London-water tea and I finally can’t immediately identify the chemical taste of mains water. I had a bottle of spring water from our tap in Scotland so poured some of that into a glass, then matched it with a glass of our London tap water. I gave it

Tuesday 1 August 2023 I probably think this on the first of every month about whatever month it then is, but how on earth is it August? In the British mindset, this is summer, the summer holidays, the one month we all had off as students. I have some idyllic (heavily rose-tinted, I know) memories

31 July 2023 Cables. I have so many [expletive] cables. But not the right one in the right place at the right time. My mobile is showing signs of, as Chris and I refer to it, “piece of shit status”. It’s just over three years old, doesn’t work particularly well on WiFi Calling (which is

Friday 28 July 2023 We are having our roof repaired and guttering re-fitted at the moment. These are things we’ve never had to do with a flat in a block. I feel oddly grown up having a roofer working on the house. Today is another grey, cloudy day with more than a passing suggestion of

Thursday 27 July 2023 I drove six miles to our nearest letter box to post a birthday card and a small package, then decided to carry on to a nearby village that I have only ever driven through. I heard a strange noise as I walked through a graveyard, looked at a drystone wall and