Tag: seedlings
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27 April – 1 May 2026
Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Pay last weekend’s sunshine tax with a litter pick. A row of stationary cars builds steadily beside me as they wait for temporary traffic lights to change. I feel self conscious. Am I weird? This is weird. I hold up cans and let them drain before crushing them underfoot. Pick them up…
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20 – 24 April 2026
Monday Sunrise: 5:54am “Morning!” Podcast man is smiling. He and his dog are early, much further down the street than usual. The sun is up and the air is already lilac scented. In the wood the bluebells are a blue haze and around the edges the stitchwort is out. Dandelion clocks are ticking – some…
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22 – 26 April 2024
Monday Head across the park in the sunshine. It’s 3 degrees and there are small patches of frost clinging to shadows in the long grass. The dandelion clocks are standing proud, fluffed up and ready to go. A helicopter leads the way, low and loud. The sun warms my back as I walk to the…
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24 – 28 April 2023
Monday Woke at 5:38am. Listened to a scrappy dawn chorus, including a bird that sings at the exact same pitch as a digital alarm. Mondays. Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? Not sure. Stare at the computer? I nip out quickly before work. Walk across the park…
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10–14 April 2023
Monday Did some baking and darned a sock. Like a scene from Little House on The Prairie (probably) but with less focus and more internet. Found the plastic legs of a toy horse in the garden. Tuesday Snuck out to the woods before work instead of a litter pick. I wanted to see if the…
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