Lifestyle

Monday 18 December 2023 Goodness, it’s a week until Christmas Day. There is no point commenting further, I have resigned myself to a scraping-by kind of Christmas. I’ve sort of done most things I really need to do. Sort of. I now have loads to get done (not Christmas-related) before I head for London again […]

Sunday 17 December 2023 It’s rained and been windy all day. I had a short wander around outside while it was barely raining but that’s it. It’s not particularly cold (9°C) but it’s horribly dreary. I suppose there’s no surprise that I’m missing the sunshine. The temperature is fine, but the sun … I was

Thursday 14 December 2023 It is 20:13 and outside is apparently 20°C. I am in Doha, my first trip back to the Middle East in the almost-four years since the pandemic. I don’t think I have ever enjoyed sunshine and warmth as much as this. Yes, I love living in Scotland (and it’s not like

Thursday 7 December 2023 It’s 18:42 and I’m sitting in the living room with the balcony door open, and I’m still a bit too warm. I am most definitely in London. It is a lot easier to appreciate and sort of prefer this warm flat in winter compared to the bitterly cold house in Scotland.

Tuesday 5 December 2023 I attended a community council meeting last night in a village hall a forty-minute drive from home. I wanted to go to support the need for something to be done about the flood which cuts off our road in heavy rain, which then causes the river to flow over the road.

Monday 4 December 2023 It’s been a weekend of snow. Today it is grey, wet and windy and the last of the snow has pretty much gone. I had an amazing walk in a thin layer of snow in the woods yesterday, one of those walks that makes you feel that all is good with