Tag: books
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27 December 2025
Radio edit this week. If you like books, these are good places for books in the UK. Slightly Foxed, beautifully produced books – reprints of old novels or biographies which are worth the reprinting. Rough Trade Books – from the Rough Trade records people, this is an interesting independent publisher. Plus Craig Oldham is the…
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15 – 24 December 2025
Radio edit this week. Thursday, 18 December Sunrise is past 8am. There’s always talk about scrapping daylight saving, but if we did, which way would we go? This survey from 2019 found that “the majority of Britons (59%) would opt to remain permanently on summer time, sacrificing light in the morning in the winter for…
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11-15 August 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Saw T in a field full of clover and birds foot trefoil. I wasn’t sure it was him for a minute but he shouted and waved so I tracked back to meet him. We talked for so long that I ditched my plans and walked back with him the way I came.…
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4 – 8 August 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:29am Car crash moon: waxing gibbous, 10 days old. It’s not even full, but it’s low enough to catch your attention and turn your head. Low enough to bang your head, maybe. This morning, the biggest of the morning glory twirled right off the top of its bamboo cane and continued into…
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10 – 14 March 2025
Monday Sunrise: 6:25am Did she say it was like the sky was alive, or the sky was awake? I met FMP this morning as I was littler picking. We talked about holidays and a trip she made a few years ago to see the northern lights. She said it was wonderful. I think she said…
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24 – 28 February 2025
Monday Sunrise: 6:55am We’ve cracked the 7am sunrise barrier, but it rained too hard to go out. Tuesday Sunrise: 6:53am Proper light when I leave the house. A smile of recognition as someone from my old commute says hello and joins me in the bus queue. The bus is late, so we miss the train.…
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30 December 2024 – 3 January 2025
Wednesday 1 January 2025 Things I know from keeping notes. In January, the sound of woodpeckers will echo around the leafless wood. The park will freeze and there’ll be a crunchy frost with bright blue shadows. As the sun rises, contrails will glow pink in the sky and linger like frozen shooting stars. There will…
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2 – 6 December 2024
Storm Darragh is currently raging across the U.K. More than 170,000 homes are without power. In the south east the wind whips through every crack and hurls rain at every wall and window, but we’re protected from the worst of it and thankful. This has been the second of two weeks off. When I started…
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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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