The still asleep river
Meets the early morning sea
A snake of mist melts away
I went for my twenty minutes morning walk. The sky was clear, except for what looked like a thick white mist over the Tamar valley. Where the river met the sea, so did the river mist. But it continued in a long white line, like a serpent made of smoke, slowly disappearing in the sea breeze.
Sunlight dances
Friday morning at park
On orange dino hat
Friday’s are my stay at home father day. If the weather is good we try to go to the park early. Before there are lots of kids. My son loves getting on the swing. The little kids swing, always the one on the right. He points to the twin swing on the left and says baby swing – as if he is on the big kids swing. Both are exactly the same, but he always insists on going to the one on the right. If there are others, we wait for our turn, even if the one of the left is free.
Yellow chu chu train
A thousand humans buzz
Happy summer sun
Little one and his mom are on the yellow chu chu train. There are three of them. Yellow, red and blue. Primary coloured. Little one always insists on going on the yellow. It’s his favourite. He always insists on going with his mom. She is his favourite.
I sit and wait on one of the wooden picnic tables nearby. The sun is warm on my back. I semi close my eyes and listen to the sounds.
The sea breeze forms a soft background noise. People talking. Laughing. Children playing in the park. Shouting. Running after the ball. Cars driving by. Everything blends together into a joyous summer afternoon drone, like something coming from a happy insect colony. Punctuated every now and then by the raucous cries of the ever present seagulls.
Red sky, yellow sky
Zippy has turned amber
Bedtime, little one
Zippy is a sleep timer we have got for the little one. It stays blue during the day. When its his bed time it turns amber. If the clouds aren’t there, the sky to the west has turned red and yellow by this time. Red sky! yellow sky! little one shouts. We say red sky yellow sky means…we pause..he says sun bedtime! Yeeees, sun bedtime, Adi bedtime we say. Sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn’t.
Invictus 
