Category: june
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29 June – 3 July 2026
Monday “Do you do this every week?” There’s trash in the open grass and trash by the bench. But there’s also a man on the bench admiring the view. As I didn’t want to disturb him, I was heading for the trash in the open first. I say sort of, and walk over. He tells…
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22 – 26 June 2026
Monday “Who is the man with the black umbrella?” “There are thirty guns in the box.” I’ve started using Duolingo again. I could potentially weave black-umbrella man into the Duolingo story, but I’m less sure about thirty guns in a box. That said, these sentences do seem to fit together. I just completed a lesson to…
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30 June – 4 July 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:47am “She said some days she just gets up at four and goes into the garden…” “Not a bad idea. At least it’s cool.” “She said she listens to the birds and watches the sun rise.” It’s 2am and I can’t sleep. I wonder how we slept in Athens, then I remember the…
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23 – 27 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:44am Wind whips through the ailing trees. The tall buildings create a wind tunnel here, but when you see it, feel it, you can kid yourself that it’s really just nature, left to its own devices. The bus swerves gently to let an unmarked police van through. Discreet blue lights flash. The van’s bodywork…
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16 – 20 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:43am “Reflect from your shadow” says the sign above the entrance to the Elizabeth Line. On my back I’m carrying the heat of a tiny sun. My laptop has, it turns out, been running all night. Confined to a backpack it feels like it’s about to burn. On the platform I haul it…
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9 – 13 June 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 4:44am Tick-tick. Tock. Sunrise is getting earlier each day, until the day it’s not. Last week the sun rose at the same time on two consecutive days. Yesterday and today too. Just 11 more days until the solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. The verges by the road have been left…
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2 – 6 June 2025
Monday Sunrise: 4:48am Rain. Scan the brutalist tower blocks and the raised walkways, a backdrop for some failed off-world utopia. Everything perfectly framed, a cinematic dream. We watched The Salt Path yesterday and this isn’t that, this quiet brain-rebellion. But the world breaks on a crowded platform and a missed opportunity. Check the clock, 5:47am.…
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24 – 27 June 2024
Monday Last week the sun rose at 4:43am every day. Today it’s 4:44am and tomorrow 4:45am. Next up, the nights are drawing in, but never mind that now. It’s 17 degrees at 7:15am and I’m walking up to the Iron Age earthworks. There’s a runner ahead with a dog at her heels. She stops suddenly…
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17 – 21 June 2024
Monday Is it dangerous to Miracle Whip and drive? The spent canisters (nitrous oxide) have been dropped from a window passenger-side, and sit heavily in the mud of the kerb. It’s probably dangerous if someone lobs a canister at you from a moving vehicle but they’d need to put the effort in. They’re big and…
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