Friday 27.11.2015

Dithering: "to be nervously irresolute in acting or doing". Not nervous but definitely irresolute with a couple of hours to spare this morning. Christmas cards? Chores? Reading? So in the end a walk`s the only thing even though the sun had already disappeared and we knew it was going to rain. :)

Stages of rainfall:
- desultory spitting as we walked up the hill and the clouds settled overhead
- short sharp pelt of icy stilettoes (or maybe stilletti) just as we walked out of the trees and into a clearing
- drizzle, occasionally given a swirl by the gusting wind
- the sky darkening, a steady rain, patterning the puddles

Hot shower, hot coffee, warm glow. In fact enough of a glow to light up a small town.
And no more dithering, time`s up - we`re away to Inverness to see Billy Bragg. :)

Wednesday 25.11.2015

Easy to forget how quickly the sun disappears for the next few months. As we went up the hill sometime after two this afternoon, into the teeth of a sharp wind, it was already well down, turning a wan yellow and then dropping behind a cloud that was perched on the horizon though it peeped out again briefly as we skirted round the trees in the woods.

We turned for home, crunching across frozen leaves caught somewhere between autumn and winter,

and by the time we were trotting back down the hill it was grey and still. Tea,toast and honey were the order of the day. :)

Sunday 22.11.15

In the meantime....
there have been more walks on mild November days,lunchtime from work





and at home under stormy skies.

Then work and events took over. Journeys south, a gig @Barrowlands, Glasgow that exceeded all expectations,

(thank you Frank Turner, Skinny Lister and Will Varley)

a sojourn in the Cotswolds, lunch in Bristol, a trip back up the motorways in a hire car with a particularly good sound system,temporarily lost in Glasgow and finally home - all in a long weekend :)

Since then more work, and more work, the Toad, but even if we didn`t make it to the woods today there`s always somewhere to walk...up on the hill on a wintery afternoon, perfect stillness and though not forecast to linger a taste of what`s to come.

Sunday 01.11.2015

Warmest November day on record apparently. Certainly irresistible this morning, not exactly first thing but before anything else got done.


Different time of day, different light,

new colours,

hot dogs. :)