Tag: mar-2024

• 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…

  DW

  March 30, 2024

• 18 – 23 March 2024

  Monday The sun was shining weakly on the path between the fields, so I risked it in walking boots instead of wellies. Terrible idea. I was only a quarter of the way in when I gave myself a pep talk: “Come on – it’s as bad to go back as it is to go forward…

  DW

  March 23, 2024

• 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.”…

  DW

  March 16, 2024

• 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…

  DW

  March 9, 2024

• 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…

  DW

  March 2, 2024