It’s A Beautiful Day
I’ve written before about rain. About how it makes me feel alive. Today the rain was beating down, propelled by cold gusts of wind that...
I’ve written before about rain. About how it makes me feel alive. Today the rain was beating down, propelled by cold gusts of wind that...
It starts to snow. My youngest son has been waiting all year for this. “Ha ha ha!” he shouts, looking out of the window. He’s already in...
A film version of one of the passages from my book A London Country Diary. (Music by the Highbury Vale Electronic Music Studio) See also...
It’s sheeting down with rain. I’m walking, at a decent clip, in the direction of Holloway Road, though, of course, I could go anywhere....
Maybe this theory needs a bit more work.
The daffodils are out in Clissold Park. Squat dogs round and through them. “Kaiser! Butch! Over here!” shouts an angry looking man with...
It was a midweek night and I was waiting at a Green Lanes bus stop for a 341 or 141 to take me up to the Salisbury for a few beers. The...
It’s the same every morning. At the end of the tree-lined bank that used to carry the New River, as you turn vaguely northwards towards...
The winter winds brought some unexpected activity in the garden this year. The Argos shed we’d bought, against all advice, is still there...
When there is a bite to the air and the winds begin to take most of the leaves, it’s time for new visitors to appear in the hedgerows...
Splashing across our lawn on a rain-spackled evening, the hare announces his return by dancing in the pools of water that form in the...
We keep a big dirty plastic cement bucket in our back garden to tell us which way the wind is blowing. If it’s up near the gas tank we...
It’s Sunday. Which means the wind has changed from south westerly to a freezing, biting North wind. It’s like mid-December. The family of...
Grey everywhere today. Biting wet winds are blowing in from the south east. The Aran Islands look like three faint grey clouds as sea...
The weather is manic depressive at the moment – one day sunny smiley and full of possibilties, the next storm grey with sheets of rain...