You’d think it wasn’t too hard to write a post a week. Four weeks into my imposed writing routine, evening outing plus tiredness sets in on a Thursday night…no post. Rather than berating myself, let’s just pretend it’s still 4 February, and go for it. OK? — The half-yearly visit to the dentist is upon …
Category archives: Moments
Weekly snapshot: 28 January
Storm brewing outside. We’ve let the kids know that it’s going to be noisy, but they are safe inside. I think they believe us (mostly). I feel a bit the same, writing. Some days, it seems a gale goes on before I can sit down and write, and I’m only really writing once a week. But …
Weekly snapshot: 14 Jan
I’d like to find the right words to describe the sky today. Cold, bright, slightly ruffled clouds. The kind of winter day that lifts you up; the kind that also has you doing the morning footwear calculation for the kids. Shoes or boots? Boots (wellies) won out, which was just as well: there were some …
Weekly snapshot: 7 Jan
Where to begin? So starts another year. So maybe the writing can start again. A couple of days back, Dan brought some photo albums down from the attic. He’d promised to show the kids some pictures from a particular trip; a few more albums made it downstairs with him. Some of this was filling-in work: …
Into the dark
Heads down to the shortest day. Nine more days, then the light levels will start to lift again. I can’t wait. — I remember reading something by Monty Don, the gardener, a few years ago. He wrote about the difficulty of gardening in that October – December slot, the time of shortening days. (There is …