Hi gang - just a wee update

Hi everyone... it's been a while, but i popped in to have a look around and noticed my profile is showing an out-of-date location.

Me and my 2 greyhounds have moved to a wee village of 300 people in the South Lanarkshire countryside.
My partner has remained in Helensburgh.  I have been begging for years to move to a place where we could have a garden, and he repeatedly said no, and then at last said 'dont ask me again or we are going to seriously fall out'.
So i asked him how he would feel if i moved and took the dogs -- he said 'do what you need to do to be happy', so I did. 

I applied for housing with several Scottish councils and was told, as i expected that i don't have enough points to qualify for anything, so i expected to be on a waiting list forever, but if you don't ask, you don't get, right?

South Lanarkshire contacted me within a few weeks and asked how i would feel about living in an 'area of low demand'... no shops, no pubs, no public transport, etc and i said i'd do it.  So they gave me a ground floor flat (4 in a block) with a garden and i moved in straightaway.  I absolutely love it here!  I have a car, so the transport thing isn't an issue.  I'm 4 miles from the nearest 'corner shop' and around 15 miles from a supermarket/Argos/B&M/etc. No issue - all the supermarkets deliver, and it's probably a good idea for my liver that there's no pub. 

Still working from home since COVID, so no issues with commuting.  My dogs are loving it, and i've joined a subscription service for beginning gardeners, where they send you the seeds, pots, soil/compost and instructions for how to grow various veg and herbs in containers, so i'm looking forward to getting stuck into that.

I met another greyhound owner in the village within  a week of being here, and i joined a church in Lanark where i met a couple of other greyhound mums!

It's not 100% perfect.... there's no back door to the garden, so to get the hounds into the garden i need to walk them past my neighbour's kennels, which house a lurcher and 6 working spaniels, so there's a lot of barking, but no one seems to mind.  Would have loved a back door where the hounds could just come in and out as they pleased, but you can't have everything, and i'm really happy with what i've got here. 

Oh, that sounds wonderful!!!!  Congratulations!

I just got back from the allotment here (just damage control, it's still too wet to do anything out there) and just having been out in the fresh air and sunshine for a few hours makes such a difference.  The best of luck on your garden!

And how wonderful for the pups to have an "outdoor" space, too.