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 was a clear morning this morning. Blue sky and a crisp air. Having been cooped up most of the week either due to inclement weather or inclement mood I felt a long walk through the local park was in order.
I’ve never been along Jesmond Dene before. I have no idea why. Less than ten [...]
Lunchtime I headed out for a sandwich. It was freezing cold but I needed a banana for reasons I won’t go into, so I donned my warm coat and wrapped myself in my scarf.
Walking down the street of the city centre I noticed that the sky seemed bluer than usual, the sun felt warmer on my [...]
Thank you for coming to the station. I love that moment when I see you first.
It’s nice.
I’ve been busy.
But now, on a Sunday morning all is quiet, everyone is happy and I have almost two days before chaos resumes in the guise of 800 toddlers. That’s almost two whole days to work out how I’ll entertain them all for a day.
There’s enough time for a cup of tea and a cwtch before I set [...]
Any moment now, the man with the van might come and steal all my cables away.
Soon after, I move myself to the other side of the country.
I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to post.
It may be a little while.
In the meantime – May the badgers be with you.
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I should be looking forward to seeing you tomorrow but right now I am still disappointed that I don’t get to today.
This afternoon I took a thick pen and wrote your name and address on the front of a padded envelope. I enjoyed it. Not just because I was sending you a parcel, but there is something about the swoop of the letters and the words that pleases me. Knowing that this parcel will soon be in [...]
Our hotel reservation has been cancelled.
No National Fireworks Championships for us this year.
You’d best take me to Whitby, then.
Can we get some sparklers and sit on the beach?
One day, you’ll share a summer solstice sunrise as beautiful as this with me:
Just not this year, huh.