Tag: CML
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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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5 – 9 May 2025
Tuesday Sunrise: 5:23am Dandelion clocks are ticking in the park, standing a head higher than the daisies which are still tightly shut at this hour. I say hello to CML on the way to the station; she’s walking her dog. Someone has kicked two empty canisters of nitrous oxide to the curb. The big canisters…
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26 – 30 August 2024
Tuesday “When we were in Thailand we saw… that thing that spins?”“A tornado? Did you?” The women behind me discuss tornadoes and tiny earthquakes and times when they thought they were going to die but didn’t. It’s a sunny morning and the low sun makes it feel like autumn is coming. “You can’t dream about…
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3 – 7 June 2024
Monday At band practise the person I sit next to is lost.“How does this work then? Where are we?”I say, “You play to the end, go back to the start and play to—““Did you see Ruth Davidson on a buffalo?”“—the coda sign and—what?”“You know who Ruth Davidson is?”I nod as the conductor says “We’ll go…
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27 – 31 May 2024
Monday A bank holiday. I finish making a gift for a friend. In the evening I stumble across a bacchanalian orgy. I planted seedlings earlier and the slugs are everywhere, drunk on rain and fresh possibility. They’re draped across leaves, sliding across plants, the earth and each other. Fat, thick, long, short, leopard spotted, orange…
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13 – 18 February 2023
Monday “Gizza job!” It’s T, obviously, and his mate. I’m litter picking. Haven’t seen T in ages, but he’s on a half-term break, and soon to be out of a job. They’ve sold the place where he works. “They only sold it for about 2 mil in the end!” “Whaaat?!”Incredulous, we all shake our heads –…
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