Justification, ker-plosh, bwark-kuk-kuk
1. The heavy rain disrupts my gardening plans. Instead, I curl under a blanket with the dreaming dog and finish reading my book. 2. On the drive to Bingley, John makes poo-hitting-water noises and I can’t help but laugh and laugh. 3. There is just enough time between the rain stopping and night falling for [...]
100 miles north-north-east: day one
1. Hundreds of chickens – little red specks in the giant field – mill about in the early morning mist. 2. The blue robed woman stands in her garden, watching the train go by. 3. Suddenly the rows of terraced housing give away. The glorious green slopes draw the eye down to the curve of [...]
Crack, a pretty coincidence, accomplishment
1. The sharp snap as I break the twigs. 2. The arrangement of the washing on the line looks deliberately composed. The duck-egg blue of the bath towels, the washed out mid-blue of the dog ones and the soft turquoise & cream of the tea towels all coordinate while standing out against the leafy green [...]
3BT – sounds, Boron’s outside time, by the beck
1. Two pleasantly dull sounds within ten minutes of each other – the sound of vomit hitting a window in a cartoon and the knock of wood on wood as I throw logs onto a pile. 2. Boron watches us from the wall then when I rest, he pads over to sit on my knee. [...]
3BT – pate, cats, plunk-plink!, delights
1. The toast is evenly brown and perfectly crisp. The pate is strongly flavoured but delicious, and stirs in me the desire to make my own. I add it onto my “things to make” list. 2. Throughout the day, all the cats visit me at my desk. They sit on my knee between my body [...]
3BT – dishwashing symphony, plans, new decade
1. The pots and pans peal sonorously in the ceramic sink. 2. The end of the year & decade encourages me to reflect, to plan. A number of friends are doing “101 goals in 1001 days” but I think that’s too many and too long for me – I’d either end up listing things I [...]
3BT – whoosh, wood and weird
1. I move from room to room opening the curtains to let in the day. My favourites are the ones in the dining room because they whoosh dramatically. 2. The wood splits perfectly down the middle and by coincidence, the logs I’ve chosen stack neatly in the box. Despite the snow on the ground and [...]
