Tag: dream
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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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2 – 4 October
This is the beginning of last week’s walk/weeknotes. I couldn’t publish last weekend for reasons too many to count. I’m not sure normal service will resume this weekend. Maybe the one after. I hope so. It’s definitely true that when the big things are too big, it’s the little things in the ordinary every day…
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Week 47: 28 November – 3 December
Monday Dream of death and dying. Jolt awake and this time it’s 3 minutes until the alarm goes off. Before I can reset it, the phone insists on telling me about its software update and the primary call to action on every screen is to make an emergency call. Perhaps, when I agreed to the…
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Week 43: 31 October – 5 November
Monday Sunrise 6.51am, 13 degrees. Clocks went back yesterday. It’s a beautiful morning in the park and there’s a low shapeshifting mist. Sometimes I follow it, sometimes it follows me. It’s like having a walking buddy. Two people stop to say thanks as I’m litter picking, and two people stop their cars to let me…
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Week 37: 19 – 24 September
Monday Watched the Queen’s funeral. I finished knitting the straight heel of the sock and completely forgot to turn it before I started the next section. Do we blame the queen for the mistake or thank her for helping me spot it before I went too far? Band practise in the evening. Instead of taking…
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Week 36: 12 – 17 September
The sunrise is getting later – sometimes at a rate of 2 minutes a day. Acorns have been dropping for weeks, mostly in response to the lack of rain over the summer. But this week I saw the first conker of the season too. It’s starting to feel like autumn and it’s getting colder. Soon…
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Week 20: 23 – 28 May
Monday Wake up in bed, overlooking a forest on a steep slope. There are only trees (no plants on the forest floor) and even though it looks like autumn I know it’s not. The trees are dying. As I watch, one group of people tries to cut them down while another group, dressed in white,…
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Week 6: 14 – 19 February
Monday It always seems wrong to block out the sunshine, but this morning it was blinding. So I picked up the car from the garage and did a weird dance as I drove home. Visor down, visor up, visor down, visor up. It’s early evening now and it’s pouring. I reviewed some presentations at work.…