3BT – every day is party day, becoming real, hide & seek
1. My bunting arrives and it’s so nice that I want to order more and fill the house with it. 2. While I’ve been hiding indoors from the rain, bean and pea pods have appeared. 3. Lily watches me leave the room and slowly follows – too slowly to see me run downstairs and hide [...]
3BT – I’m not the only one, misconception, night bright
1. The bus stops right outside. I ring the buzzer and tell the voice at the other end of the wire that I’m there to stroke yarn. The way she laughs makes it clear she understands. Inside, everywhere I turn, I see potential. 2. I try spinning for the first time: the wool thing, not [...]
3BT – finally finished, look closer, soapy spheres
1. The joy of a job finally finished – the last of our veg beds dug over and ready for seedlings. Years of ambivalence left them compacted and weed clogged so it’s been a chore to clear them out but I know that from here on in – next year and the years after that [...]
3BT – productive, chance meeting, double-cake afternoon
1. Knowing it’s going to rain, I head straight out into the sunny garden after breakfast. The washing is dry and my gardening tasks are accomplished by the time the clouds gather at 1pm. We carry the seedlings back from their sunbathing spot to their warm nursery in the porch. 2. We spot the tshirt [...]
3BT – ongoing, accurate, I have a thing for divisors
1. Everyday something changes so every day the walk is different. Today, we taste wood-sorrel and investigate mole hills. 2. Finding this quote in the comments of a fluff article about women with depression: “the sadness that runs under the skin of things, like blood, beginning as a trickle and ending up as a haemorrhage, [...]
3BT – sunseeking, the boundary, mental melodies
1. The mint shoots tilt south. 2. Lily and the dog stare at each other across the beck, like forbidden lovers kept apart. Then suddenly the spell is broken: they run to each other and bounce around in the water. 3. The songs whirling in my head, I dance along the tarmac line while waiting [...]
3BT – musty, dusty, surreal, feral, exploration
1. My fingers smell of old, dried glue. 2. A circle of matte green-grey shoots have appeared in the garden. Only time will tell what they’ll be. 3. As I leave the theatre, a woman is holding a fake hand prop in her arms like a sleeping baby. 4. Carbon spot it first: a fox [...]
3BT – reward + walk = rewalk, can’t wait, so soft
1. I finish an unpleasant task a lot quicker than I expect which means I have time for a walk with the cats in the woods. They bounce and chase through the decaying leaves then follow me home. 2. I learn about herbs from one book and wild foods from the other. I can’t wait [...]
