Tag: Lakes
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Born sloppy .NUTS
Karl and Rick, Warehouse MCR, 12/04/24 Hmmnn, so it looks like it’s been a fair while since I last scrawled something on here. Nothing more or less to do with anything other than the title of this piece I’m afraid: a deep and unsettling apathy toward the general state of the world and the lack…
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Three pictures of my dog
The larger of the two tiny ponds in our little garden is looking very sorry for itself. In fact, it’s looking like a new and frightening lifeform is about to emerge. The hedgehog who prickled its way over the cobbles for a quick evening slurp in April has long since sought a less hazardous watering…
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Millstones
Feeling my age on Humpty Dumpty Hill, Burton in Kendal So I had one of those milestone birthdays recently. I suppose I’d been fearing its onset pretty much since the last one, and it didn’t disappoint. There’s something disturbing about the number 50 and its existential half-way baggage. Half-way to what…..paradise?! So near, yet so…
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Road to somewhere
Bonfire night, and a sunset in a north-easterly sky. Rare autumnal sun this year, plunging into Morecambe Bay behind me and Jessie on Hanging Hill enflamed the arse-end of a front that had plagued us all day. She bothered a scratty stick while I gathered a few rain-fattened waxcaps; then the mysteries of temperature differentials…
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