Wednesday, July 06, 2022

South, sound and radio.

1. I've woken so early, but to the south there is such clear, bright light.

2. The way headphones replace the noise of roadworks and scaffolders with sounds that I can control.

3. I am supposed to be looking after our girls. They go into the garden and totally ignore me, apart from occasionally knocking on the window and running away. So I put on a radio programme about the technicalities of storytelling and ignore them right back.


Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.

1. The grounding weight of my watering cans. 2. Our schedules mean that I eat supper alone in the peaceable, silent kitchen. 3. Now the chil...