Category: march
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25 – 29 March 2024
Monday A litter-pick in grass so wet it soaks last week’s mud from my boots. It’s a plague house, so I sleep in the spare room and leave the curtains open, just for the joy of seeing the moon print bright rectangles on the wall. Tuesday Walked to the earthworks while there was a gap…
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11 – 15 March 2024
Monday “Here you go!” I hand (the other) T a second bag of trash. I met him earlier when I was halfway through the pick. The bag was already three quarters full and he took it off my hands and gave me a fresh one. I say “There’s a wheelchair down there and two tyres.”…
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4 – 8 March 2024
Tuesday Awake at 3:01am. It was still raining at 7am and I missed the bus to the station twice: once as it drove past my door and again as it completed its circuit, crossing its own path a few streets over. From the top of the bus in the city I heard a wheel squeak…
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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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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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20 – 24 March
Monday Sunrise, 6:03am, 8 degrees. It’s placeholder weather: neither hot or cold, wet or dry. The sky is blank, waiting to load Litter pick-pick-pick. Found a single handcuff in the park. Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late We watch the News at 10. They say “We could be…
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13 – 17 March
Monday Can’t sleep.Until of course,It’s time to get up. Then you will find, I am sleeping Like a champ. #overslept Tuesday Choose the walk, and the speed of it, for the corner shop at the end. On the way to the wood I spot tiny flowers blooming at the bottom corner of a hedge. I’ve been waiting. Small…
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6 – 10 March
I’m not a bad gardener (I have a hunch there are just gardeners and knowledgeable/good gardeners… To be a bad gardener, I think you just don’t garden?) Anyway I worry. Why aren’t there leaves on the trees yet – are they still alive? Etc. So last Sunday I tagged my weeknotes. Now I can see…
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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…