A New View

We've been busy settling into our new house, 'new' both in the sense that it's not the house we used to live in, and in the sense that it's newly built. It had never been our intention when we came to Golspie to build another house - we'd had enough agony building the one in Kilchoan - but with no bungalows coming onto the market and time overtaking us, we took the plunge. It's been an exhausting battle, one we won mostly because we were fortunate in choosing a good local builder.

We might not have subjected ourselves to the stresses of the last two years had we not found a site with a view. It's not the best view I've lived with - the views from the last house in Mombasa and Matenderere in Kilchoan were better - but it's something to watch. It's mostly sky above an empty sea but it has land between, a distant land which very much reminds me of the first sight of land after a long sea passage.

So it's a view which evolves, which changes slowly, which lacks excitement - though it may yet surprise us - a view which seems appropriate for our ages. We can relax into it, time can slow.