Tag: rain
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2 – 4 April 2024
Tuesday Heavy rain starts at 4:11am. At 7:24am I look at the wrong clock and it says 6:24am. Despite the fact it’s both meteorological spring and astronomical spring, it’s also British Summer Time. I’d been planning to walk soon, although not today. But there’s a break in the rain and only three people at the…
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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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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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1 – 5 January 2024
On Monday we came home from the wooden house we’d been staying in with friends. As we were packing, the sun came out and turned the lake outside to a mirror. It had rained for almost the entire length of our stay, but in those final 30 minutes, everything looked glorious. The day before, I’d…
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11 – 15 December
Monday Today and tomorrow, the sun will rise at 7:55am and set at 3:51pm. Come the summer, this will seem incredible. We don’t even live in a country of seasonal extremes – not yet, or not really. It’s hard to believe days can be so short. An entire lifetime to come to terms with it,…
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13 – 18 November
Monday 13 degrees. I walked to the wood but it felt like a fool’s errand. The rain, which began as drizzle, got steadily heavier and water started to pool in my pockets. The sun wasn’t quite up and the car headlights lit up the rain as it fell in sheets. When I admitted defeat and…
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6 – 11 November
Week off. Monday “That’s the man whose dog is a bastard.” “Is it? Why has he got two dogs?” “One belongs to his wife. He’d prefer not to walk them toge—“ “One of those dogs is a bastard?!” I think the dogs are smaller than he expected. I never said they were big. It’s dark…
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30 October – 2 November
A short week this week. Monday Sunrise 6:49am sunset 16:47pm I walked to the woods to look for autumn, but it wasn’t there. We’re 2 days from November – is it supposed to be like this? There are leaves on the ground, but if you look up all the trees are green. I wonder if…