Yesterday saw the funeral take place for Mrs O’s mum. So much has happened in these last three weeks but this was the big event. I went out early on the bike and the morning light was truly beautiful. It was a familiar route but I seemed to see things differently. The light was very […]
The phone call that was dreaded finally came
Yesterday, quite out of the blue the house phone rang and Mrs O picked up. It was the care home. This was the call she had been dreading for some while now. Her mum had died suddenly. No fuss, no melodrama, just went. I had noticed over the last month that she was travelling further […]
Wondering at the firmament
In a week of mass natural destruction and death, state execution and civil murder, I gazed up into the night sky last night and wondered at just how small we are in the scale of things. I could see Ursa Major clearly with my naked (but corrected) eyesight. I was not prepared for the detail […]
Decades come and go
I stayed up late last night, way past my bedtime to see out my 6th decade. I used to play golf before I went off to UCS to study photography and I still find the spring lushness and azaleas of Augusta National awe inspiring. So Mrs O elected to knit and watch telly in her […]
I used to think of Southwold as being apolitical – a blot on the landscape changed that yesterday
Yesterday the sun shone on a bitterly cold East Anglian landscape despite the Southerly direction of the light breeze. Sunny days in Winter are an automatic draw in our household to romp up the coast to Southwold. I had half a mind as to what to expect as regards grockles but my, I have never […]