Category: february
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26 February – 1 March 2024
Monday ‘Severe weather warning: moderate rain.’ I wonder how both parts of that statement can be true, but you can’t argue with the weather. Despite the warning, every hour from now ‘till sunset is marked with a wind icon in the app. It’s 4 degrees and I want to stay home but I go out…
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19 – 23 February
Monday “How are you?” I wait while he winds the rest of the window down. “The usual. Y’know.” Lies. He’s always more cheerful than this, even on a Monday. “The other van has packed up again so there’s two of us.” He jerks his head back slightly. Ah. Across the park I see a man…
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12 – 16 February
Monday I watch a man walk towards me with his dog. He’s old, but the dog is not. Every few steps they stop for the dog to sniff at the undergrowth. I smile and say: “That’s gonna be a long walk…” and the man’s face brightens under his cloth cap. “Tell me about it, she’s…
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5 – 9 February 2024
Monday The first miniature iris of the season are out. I love these flowers. Tiny and exotic. Less exotic: the litter pick. Along with everything else, six large canisters of nitrous oxide. You could be forgiven for thinking the change in law has had no effect, but you would be wrong. Now, instead of the…
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29 January – 2 February
Monday There’s a reason I stopped litter picking on Mondays in winter. It’s poor both emotionally and editorially. Tuesday Train strike. On the muddy path near the earthworks someone has carved JESUS CHRIST in large letters. I can’t tell if it’s meant as a blessing or a curse. Wednesday Everything outside has a pink hue,…
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26 February – 3 March
Monday I got a lift home from band. We’re about to park when R says “Hello, Mr Fox”, and a fox stalks across the pavement. It looks like the one I saw the other day – but I guess all suburban foxes look like that? R says “Did you see the one that climbed that…
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20 – 25 February
Monday Today the sunrise is 7:04am: a full 13 minutes earlier than last Monday. I’ve also got the day off, so I sleep through it, more or less. We drive to the coast, four in the car, three of us singing lyrics in unison to songs that are 10, 20 years old. Later, we visit…
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13 – 18 February
Monday “Gizza job!” It’s T, obviously, and his mate. I’m litter picking. Haven’t seen T in ages, but he’s on a half-term break, and soon to be out of a job. They’ve sold the place where he works. “They only sold it for about 2 mil in the end!” “Whaaat?!”Incredulous, we all shake our heads –…
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5 – 11 February 2023
Sunday It’s a beautiful day, a good day for a walk – but part of me is too lazy to go out. I message with S, he’s just got back from an osmitsa in Italy. He says ‘Go for a walk! Send me proof you’ve been’. On the way to the wood I see the…
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Week 7: 21 – 26 February
Monday Nothing but work and tea. Tuesday “Do the Wordle!”“I don’t want to!”“We should do the Wordle.”“I don’t want to tell you the word I use.”“Let’s do it!”…“Is that the word you use?!”“Yes. I said I didn’t wanna tell you.”“Omg.” School kids on the train, ‘doing the Wordle’. Accidental education. According to my phone, today…