(listed in order of loudness/pleasantness)
Birds
Bees
Insects
Whispering
Giggling
Swing creaking
Trampolene squeaking
Distant laughter
Not so distant laughter
School sportsday cheering
Car stereos (in passing)
Neighbour’s radio (in perpetuity)
Hoovers
Lawnmowers
Strimmers
Hammers and/or drills
Motorbikes
Ice Cream Van
Claire
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Notes:
1. Written on May 20th, 2024
__________Unexpected sunshine after several months of rain. Bird song and insect buzz. Ice cream van jingle burrowing deep within your brain. If you look closely you can see the grass growing beneath your feet almost in real time.
New month, new life. The perfect time to reappear.
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Notes:
1. Written on May 1st, 2024
2. Apologies, also, for prolonged absences.
Even in the sealed confinement of her room, Tina sneezed and sneezed. She could not stop.
It hardly seemed fair. All these tears and she wasn’t even sad. At least the sound of the others playing on the swing outside helped her write some of the most furious poetry in her collection.
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Notes:
1. Written on the 3rd of August, 2021
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Sudden sun for a whole weekend marks the unexpected end of this long unceasing winter, and by Monday morning, all that remains of this entire season’s crop of snow are puddles dotted here and there on the street and in the road. And when the children walk to school, one by one, beneath the gleeful stamping of their boots, they too will soon be gone.
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Notes:
1. Written between June 9th and June 15th, 2021
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Notes:
1. Written on March 7th, 2011
2. I set this to autopost six months ago or so
3. Not realising spring this year would be cancelled
4. And all activity ceased