So, that’s it. No more filling the dishwasher three times a day. No more cringing when the noisy housemate slams the doors at four in the morning. No more madness of house meals that could feed an army.
I’m moving from my house-share of eight, but I now need to learn to share my home with [...]
The trill of a singing blackbird makes me happy. The pitch is just right to lift your spirits and see that the world is right.
Not today.
Today, I should be happy, but for some reason I feel flat. There’s no energy, no motivation, just tired.
Walking back the clouds are so low I can feel the moist [...]
You appear to have missed the entire point, my darling. I was having way too much cliche’d fun. Let there be no adjective left unturned. I even went back to add a few more in, just for bad measure.
Overwritten.
Tsk.
Divebombed by gulls, a lone fox padds along the strandline, scavenging the discarded driftwood and relinquished seaweed. The gull’s cry, harsh, beside the pebble lapping sea.
East, a soliatry ship, navigation lights ablaze, sits anchored between me and the not quite yet risen sun. The sky glows red.
The pier lighthouse punctuates my descent as I take [...]
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!
In a shocking development, I’m the only one to load and unload the dishwasher over the last few days. Add to that the fact that this morning’s breakfast is probably the first set of crockery I’ve dirtied since a week last Tuesday and you begin to feel my frustration.
Weirdly, I’m going to miss this place.
Driving home from a meeting last night the skies were immense. Dark, ominous clouds hanging low. There was a letterbox of brighter sky to the West.
It wasn’t long before the rain came. The clouds dropped their load, inking the road surface. Spray splashed from the tyres of the vehicles driving past.
The break in the [...]
Sometimes being nice is too much like hard work.
After a tough day and arriving home to find my keys were left in the office, I was an hour late getting into the house. However tough, it is nothing compared to TSD who’s boyfriend is still pretty seriously ill in hospital. The kitchen needed a good [...]
Airports are full of extremes of emotion. Today they felt full of clinging couples, parting or reuniting.
There is something deeply wrong about travelling through airports when you are neither going somewhere special, going to see someone you love or returning home.
Travelling back from Milan this afternoon, past the train that would take me to Glasgow, [...]
It had promised thunderstorms so I had packed my rain mac. I hadn’t needed it. From the Duomo cathedral, we took a short cut through Milan’s most exclusive shopping mall and found ourselves in an open piazza with La Scala on our left and the Bank of Italy ahead, the square buzzing with bright young [...]