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Backlog: October 2019
Tuesday 10th of January 2023
October is Emily’s birthday, and also when Interesting Things start happening to the trees and sunlight. Emily in her birthday dress at my parents’ house petals fallen from a potted plant A bit more variety this month, with trips to Lowestoft and Yarmouth and of course the usual walks along the seafront. rusty chain with circle patterns scraped on its anchor I find abandoned shops fascinating, and…
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Night and day, shadow and light
Sunday 11th of February 2018
I didn’t really appreciate just how much of one’s time a baby takes up until Emily was born. It’s not even just things like rarely having a moment alone; it’s the other stuff, like major limits on spontaneity, especially in winter. Zoe and I can’t just decide to go out somewhere now, as we need to consider how accessible it will be with a baby and maybe pram. Consequently this leaves less time for…
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Into Darkness
Sunday 14th of June 2015
I spent most of yesterday writing code , right on up until about 9pm, which left me in no frame of mind to sleep, so I decided to go for a walk to clear my head. I got a bit lost, following a road into a housing estate then on to various footpaths that crossed fields. The light was like this when I started: the light at the start of my trek Getting dark, but nothing to worry about really. By the …
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Fog at Night
Friday 19th of September 2014
Fog has always fascinated me – the way it makes things look is obviously different, but also the way it mutes sounds, and disorients the senses. At night time these effects are amplified further, with large patches of grey that fade out into unknown darkness. lamp post shadow Odd shadow below a lamp post backlit spider web shady alley Fog is great for light rays bright bollards The street lights l…
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Holiday in Malta: Day 3
Thursday 3rd of April 2014
Posts in this series: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 My destination for today was Għardira, the beach resort in Mellieħa , and being almost at the other end of the island from the flat, it was a two-hour bus ride away. Before I set off, I made myself a packed lunch and grabbed a bottle of Kinnie, a ‘bittersweet soft drink made from oranges and aromatic herbs’, native to Malta. bo…
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