YESTERDAY MORNING Stepping out the back door and up in to the garden coincided with the passage of nine noisy ravens overhead. I stood, looked up, observed and counted. Though my breath condenses into steaming clouds from mouth and nostrils, this morning it feels definitely milder. You can read it in the birds. There’s rooks [...]
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29 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman YESTERDAY MORNING
Friday, January 29th, 20107 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman ANARCHY IN THE U.K.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010ANARCHY IN THE U.K. Although I’ve had enough of the snow already and look forward to a thaw and emerging signs of spring, I do like the anarchic nature of this frozen beast and the way it brings so many things we take for granted to a grinding halt. In many cases we’ve no choice but [...]
Read More »4 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman JUBILEE STEPS AT TEN IN THE MORNING, (LACK OF) VISION
Monday, January 4th, 2010JUBILEE STEPS AT TEN IN THE MORNING 10am: a dozen or so blackbirds stripping berries from Jubilee Steps cotoneasters. With ground hoar-frosted and hard as iron, it’s a mercy for our feathered friends that such a heavy bounty is to be had. They scorn the scarlet berry clusters during autumn, as if saving themselves for [...]
Read More »24 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SUNSHINE & SHOWERS IN TRINITY SHORTLY AFTER 5PM
Friday, July 24th, 200924 July 2009 SUNSHINE & SHOWERS IN TRINITY SHORTLY AFTER 5PM Rain comes down gently. Like shimmering silver mist which I can only see where it falls in front of a deep green yew or through the illuminating shafts of summer evening sun. Under my tree it remains dry. Briefly, it descends more heavily. A [...]
Read More »13 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman JUBILEE STEPS WEDNESDAY MORNING 9.30am
Wednesday, May 13th, 200913 May 2009 JUBILEE STEPS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9.30AM On Jubilee Steps between St James Park and Abbey Walk. I can smell the scent of moisture on the ground. It rises as a fresh aroma in response to an overnight sprinkling of misty drizzle. But nothing like the rainfall that was forecast as coming in and [...]
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