Seven Days In

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year and today looks like it's going to be similar. I've read that a cold shower is good for y...

Although temperatures are rising when I am out walking there is a wind that almost takes your face off it is so cold. This makes walking ou...

It is still cold , so cold that the snow gets a bit slushy during the day then freezes at night. The lowest I've seen is minus eight deg...

I was out walking tonight , it was -2°C (this morning was -7°C) and thought this is just perfect. The snow crunched underfoot and there is ...

Having had a reasonably restful week I thought I would get up in the middle of the night and write this post just to prove that I can. I we...

Yesterday was a non work day for me , so I went out walking and managed to meet and chat to two of my neighbours , Emma and Manjit , twice....

The weather doesn't really seem to be improving, still cold , wet , dreich.  This is my thirteenth post this year , though the second t...

Heaven Knows ......I'm miserable now. Well not really , yesterday started with more snow , and though it's cold it looks nice , rel...

Although we have not had snow, temperature have been continually less than zero for more than a week now, meaning that snow has not melted ...

 Although we are way past the shortest day (on the Winter Solstice) it is still dark in a morning although lighter in an evening. It's ...

The weather has curtailed my walking. It is cold . It has snowed and turned to slush and them frozen , then rained and then frozen again , ...

It was dreich and depressing , then we had snow which was cold but pretty, and now the snow has gone and it's dreich and depressing the...

We're in the first full week of 2021 , and I posted on New Year's Day, but haven't felt like writing since then. Part of this i...

I find it amazing how time flies by if you are doing something that needs to be done , or you are enjoying it, but drags like hell when you...

 The other week I just did not feel like walking at all, although I managed a few steps , last week I did get back to sort of normal althou...

I often think that I will just not write anymore on this blog , but then it's a diary and diaries never stop. It also is a method o...

The sky is a uniform grey and it's raining and drizzling a perfect situation for the word "dreich"  , not exactly great w...

I haven't written much about "The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker but am thoroughly enjoying it, although I've...

Since the weekend the sky has been a uniform grey with mist almost to ground level. This has burned off for the last two afternoons rev...