Tag: moon
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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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27 November – 1 December
It’s been a good week for the moon. Last Saturday night it was almost full and there was a huge halo around it. I made J come into the garden to look. Later I saw friends’ photos on instagram. From Sussex to Yorkshire, pictures of the moon’s halo. Monday Awake at 2am, and again at…
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25 – 30 September
Monday “OI!” Look up. It’s T and his mate in the distance. His mate’s already walking ahead. T’s just a dot, shouting on the pedestrian crossing. “YOU ALRIGHT?” “YEAH! YOU?” “YEAH!” A wave, and he’s off. Later I’ll wonder why he isn’t working. And whether or not he ever did get paid. For now I…
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1–5 May
Monday Before the weekend, I stuck sticks in the pots to annoy the squirrel. Yesterday, E said “what amuses me is that you always think it’s the same one.” But I think it is. It always takes the same path across the fence top, over the grass and up to next door’s bird table. It…
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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 49: 12 – 17 December
Monday Wake up to yesterday’s snow. Leave before the sun is up, but it doesn’t matter because the snow makes the most of what little light there is. The woods are black and white. I snap a photo and when I share it later, wonder if people think I’ve used a filter to make it…
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Week 40: 10 – 15 October
Monday Wake up with a splitting headache. And it’s raining. No walk. At the end of the day, I smack my head into the open – yet slowly closing – boot of the car. It leaves a bump, a bruise and I finish the day as I started. With a headache. Excellent work all round.…
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Week 2: 17 – 22 January
Monday My god, the moon! I walk through the park in the morning and it’s huge and luminous above the trees. A planet made for looking at. Later, I’ll look at the sun, close my eyes and chase 6 dark spots across the warm orange of my eyelids. A hard stare to make the dots…