3BT
Not finished yet, waggle welcome, blown out
1. The last flashes of summer – a slowly ripening chilli, a sweet pea flower curving up to the light, the scent of the brushed basil in the porch. 2. I wish I had a tail to wag too, then we could run around in wagging unison when he comes home from the office. Instead, [...]
No teeth to hold it back, up Thornhill, “ssh, I want to hear”
1. With each cough, his tongue pokes out further. It is almost impossibly cute. 2. A long walk at lunchtime. We bat some ideas around and enjoy the sun streaming into the empty woods. 3. The one person paying attention, the one person amongst the chaos who wants to listen and learn.
Temporary passages, tired out, silky smooth
1. A dozen old streams are called into action for the day. Lily tastes tests each one. 2. The stove blazing, Bonnie Prince Billy playing, keyboards clacking, the dog is sleeping. 3. The papier mache mix is different this time and it flows much better. I feel like I’m sculpting soft clay into something elegant [...]
Neat numbers, poor Mr B, OpenTTD pokes my OCD
1. The car’s display tells us it’s 5.05pm and 5.5°C. 2. He’s had a hard day – first starved overnight then an operation to remove nearly all his remaining teeth. He’s hungry but his mouth hurts too much to eat and he pulls frantically at his gums with his paws, his claws. All I can [...]
Autumn Sun(day)
1. Rainbows fill the room. The dog has one on her chest as she waves her paws in the air. There is another on my legs. They dance across the ceiling. 2. The dew glistens on the cobwebs laced between the neighbours’ railings. 3. The woods have never been lighter or brighter. The trees are [...]
1BT – Carla soft soft
(I wrote this as a draft and didn’t write any more from that day – but think it should be published anyway.) 1. Lily has always been soft to the touch but not as silky as the cats. We have a new found appreciation of the cats’ fur since Lily joined the team, especially when [...]
Chicken chatter, carnival-less, lookalike
My fake definition for the word “waddy” was the winning entry on Word Imperfect the other day. Yay! 1. The chickens always chatter when I go down to see them. I imagine them like excited children, desperate for attention and to tell me about their day. 2. We stand on the undulating green lawn in [...]
Sunlight & animals, Purple parasols, Eternal nerdy teenager
1. I have lunch – leftover kedgeree – on the balcony. The cats and dog sit together in the soft sunlight. 2. Always on the look out for mushrooms, we find Amethyst Deceivers (Laccaria amethystea) – an amazingly deep, rich purple in the brown leaf litter. 3. As usual, I come home from drama and [...]
