Tag: rain
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8 – 12 December 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 7:52am The weather is furious, hurling rain at windows and roaring into the sky. The whole house shakes with it, dreams are shaped by it, windows rattle and I can’t wait for it to end. On the station platform I join the rest of the commuters huddled into coats and puffer jackets. We…
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17 – 21 November 2025
Monday Sunrise: 7:22am The heart of the wood is quiet. No bird song, only the sound of squirrel claws skittering across trunks and branches. It’s getting light but taking a while. The temperature has dropped. It’s five degrees now and the first frost will arrive tonight, settling on cars and sparkling orange under the streetlights. …
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10 – 14 November 2025
Monday Sunrise: 7:09am Massive moon. Not full, but big and low. It rained for most of the day – except for five minutes during a call in which someone delivered bad news, and then the sun came out. I keep thinking about something I read last week. How can people write fiction when real life…
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15 – 19 September 2025
Monday Sunrise: 6:35am Looking at the woman’s fingers I think she could be a hand model. They’re so long and slender and… featureless actually. How do you get such smooth fingers? They’re as wrinkle-free as a freshly botoxed forehead. I can’t look. When you don’t get the tube very often you forget How To Tube.…
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8 – 12 September 2025
Monday & Tuesday Sunrise 6:24am & 6:25am JW sends photos of clouds above the house. Light from the rising sun strikes the bottom of each one and leeches into the dark shadows above. The houses beneath are in silhouette, the sky gets bluer the higher up you go. ‘Amazing!’ she says, and I say perfect…
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28 July – 1 August 2025
Monday Sunrise: 5:18am Did you know Lucifer means ‘light bringer’ in Latin? That Jesus apparently self-identified as the morning star? That the morning star is either the planet Venus or the star Sirius or the planet Mercury. That today I looked at the bright silver foil shining in the long grass and thought, “There it…
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21 – 25 July 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 5:10am “Make sure you get in the right lane for heaven!” The invisible man turns his head to watch the progress of a commuter who swerved last minute to avoid the barriers on London Bridge. He chuckles to himself.“Ahhh that’s a good one!” He turns back to face us all, head covered, mask…
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2 – 6 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:48am Rain. Scan the brutalist tower blocks and the raised walkways, a backdrop for some failed off-world utopia. Everything perfectly framed, a cinematic dream. We watched The Salt Path yesterday and this isn’t that, this quiet brain-rebellion. But the world breaks on a crowded platform and a missed opportunity. Check the clock, 5:47am.…
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3 – 7 February
Monday Sunrise, 7:34am I passed a new regular on the way to the wood. Today she smiled and said hello first. She always looks like a woman with a purpose. I like her. After so many storms the wood is a different shape, although it feels like it’s starting to settle. The fallen trees, swollen…
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