Yesterday was our first month anniversary after moving down to a sleepy village on the North Cornwall coast. It was also a typical day to forget all about it. Several times a day we remind ourselves: “This is where we live.” This place still feels like a holiday on which we carted all our stuff [...]
Rural life is displaying its wind-blown charms on a daily basis. The rhythm of life is unsurprisingly very much slower here, and, in my experience thus far, the stronger the local accent, the slower the life. I completely confused the guy at a local car repair and MOT garage this morning by telephoning to ask [...]
Urban life has its advantages. Convenience and accessibility are surely near the top of anyone’s list. So a move to a more wild and windy land demands some careful day-to-day adjustments. Petrol was my first concern. Even in our preliminary visits, we hunted out the nearest petrol station. Not using the car often, sometimes not [...]
The week of house moving hell is over. Though pockets of boxed chaos remain, we are mostly settled-in to the new home. But it is proving a strange experience. I remember many years ago toying with the notion of moving to a more rural location; Exmoor in that case. Having experienced a rural childhood, it [...]
I’m unaccustomed to dealing with medical problems, so the prospect of undergoing a routine surgery came not without some trepidation. This was to be a hernia repair. Possibly the result of lugging a humongous 32-inch Sony CRT television set up two flights of stairs a couple of years ago (as at least two people who [...]
