Tag: solstice
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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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16 – 20 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:43am “Reflect from your shadow” says the sign above the entrance to the Elizabeth Line. On my back I’m carrying the heat of a tiny sun. My laptop has, it turns out, been running all night. Confined to a backpack it feels like it’s about to burn. On the platform I haul it…
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16 – 20 December 2024
Monday She asks, “Are you from the Football Association?” and I think, “Wow, the FA must’ve really let themselves go”. When she approached I’d just picked up a litre bottle of lemonade with the litter picker and prized it open with my fingers. As it was half-full and heavy I was tipping it out, watching…
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9 – 13 December 2024
Monday Trees are down in the wood. Huge beasts felled by the the storm. The sun won’t rise till 7:53am but even in the semi-darkness you can tell there’s too much space here. You can feel it. The ground is deep red slush: wet earth and autumn leaves. Blackbirds chik-chik-chik in the gloom. The path…
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17 – 21 June 2024
Monday Is it dangerous to Miracle Whip and drive? The spent canisters (nitrous oxide) have been dropped from a window passenger-side, and sit heavily in the mud of the kerb. It’s probably dangerous if someone lobs a canister at you from a moving vehicle but they’d need to put the effort in. They’re big and…
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18 – 22 December
The Wikipedia page on tradition would be a good start to a novel. “Traditions are often presumed to be ancient, unalterable, and deeply important, though they may sometimes be much less “natural” than is presumed. It is presumed that at least two transmissions over three generations are required for a practice, belief or object to…
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Week 50: 19 – 24 December
NOTE: when I wrote this, I thought I was on week 49… I was also publishing these notes on Tumblr. Week 49, would you believe it. And published late, too. But this is a radio edit: actual weeknotes are written as they go, so they’re always on time. This was the week of the winter…
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Week 24: 20 – 25 June
Monday Yesterday we listened to the radio while we were eating. It was the rest of a programme I caught by accident earlier in the day, by the chap that did the Battersea Poltergeist. Every other sentence followed Betteridge’s law of headlines. “Could this possibly be [highly unlikely paranormal thing]?!” We both yell “NO!” in unison. J…
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