Category: april
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22 – 26 April 2024
Monday Head across the park in the sunshine. It’s 3 degrees and there are small patches of frost clinging to shadows in the long grass. The dandelion clocks are standing proud, fluffed up and ready to go. A helicopter leads the way, low and loud. The sun warms my back as I walk to the…
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15 – 19 April 2024
Tuesday “Surely they can’t get on, bro?” It’s a fair point, but the driver doesn’t reply to the man in the corner, pressed against the door. Instead he keeps that door closed and opens the ones in the middle. Somehow, two more people squeeze on. I walked halfway to the station but chose to get…
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8 – 12 April 2024
Monday Some days I feel like I could walk through the wood forever. It would help if it was bigger of course, but still. Woods then, if not this wood. Today the birds are singing, there’s petals scattered across the paths from flowers blooming so high you need to crane your neck to see…
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2 – 4 April 2024
Tuesday Heavy rain starts at 4:11am. At 7:24am I look at the wrong clock and it says 6:24am. Despite the fact it’s both meteorological spring and astronomical spring, it’s also British Summer Time. I’d been planning to walk soon, although not today. But there’s a break in the rain and only three people at the…
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24 – 28 April
Monday Woke at 5:38am. Listened to a scrappy dawn chorus, including a bird that sings at the exact same pitch as a digital alarm. Mondays. Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? Not sure. Stare at the computer? I nip out quickly before work. Walk across the park…
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17–21 April
Monday The sun rose at 6:01am today, tomorrow it’ll be 5:59am. The grass is still wet from the pre-dawn rain and I have a slight emotional hangover from the weekend. I litter pick as much to give myself a sense of agency as to tidy up. I’m relieved to see T. He’s on his own.…
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10–14 April
Monday Did some baking and darned a sock. Like a scene from Little House on The Prairie (probably) but with less focus and more internet. Found the plastic legs of a toy horse in the garden. Tuesday Snuck out to the woods before work instead of a litter pick. I wanted to see if the…
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3 – 7 April
Monday I see T and his mate. Perfect timing. My litter picker is good but it’s not strong enough to pick up the heavy gas canister I’m staring at, or the other five in the big box next to it. Also, I’ve done my back in (again). We all stare at the canisters and talk…
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27 March – 1 April
Monday Sunrise 6:47am 1 degree I think I’m behind the times with my seasonal adjustment disorder. But this morning? Sun! The sky is blue and the blossom is starting to come out. I take the classic shot, white blossom against a bright blue sky. In the wood, the lesser celadine are about to earn their…
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Week 16: 25 – 30 April 2022
Monday The sunrise was 5.44am this morning, according to my phone. So we’ve made it back to where we were on 28 March, the day the clocks went forward. The bluebells are out in force in the wood now, and they’ve snuck into every garden in the neighbourhood too, ours included. They’re tallish plants, so…
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