1. I like to see the window cleaner move his ladder with his rucksack clipped on to the fourth rung. He leans it carefully against the wall and climbs up to put soap on a shop's glass, before swiping it off again. The other morning, he passed a frightening man who was muttering angrily to himself in a bus stop and said: 'Hallo Mike.'
2. Changing a lightbulb with too few watts to a brighter one.
3. On a rainy night the path up the hill shines when everything else is dark and dirty.
Chime, dogs and get-away planning.
1. The doorbell chime signalling the arrival of a child home from school. 2. It strikes me how frequently the seconded coppers I am editing ...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...