Category: Journal
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22 July: July Diaries
20 July: Heat Wave He say he’s never seen mewith wet hair before. and the patio is too hotfor ants to walk on, and is it okay to step on them? She knocks on the bedroom door, and askswhen Nana and Farfar won’t be sick and says, please fix this boiling house. They they’re both…
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18 July: London Two Ways
17 July: London Two Ways (30ºC, and my flowers are dying) He is at the London Aquarium.hands-on and poking starfish. singing Baby Shark song says King Louie is biggerthan that shark She is at the matinee of Frozen.says it’s all wrong Elisa doesn’t have dark skin.and the singing is too loud. and she says Nana…
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15 July: Centerparcs Longleat 31°C
15 July: Centerparcs Longleat 31°C He threw his soft toy penguinin the swimming pool. swim, he shouts.his penguin sinks. it takes three days to dry a penguin. She whispers. every word.and tilts her headand smiles. one must choose to listen. They are crying. they don’t want to go home. why are we all sick and…
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11 July: July Diaries
11 July (mostly inside today) He is afraid of the big bird in the garden,it wants to eat him, he says. and says it’s too hot outside buthe’ll have toast anyway. cereal. no milk. no spoon. and he’s washing is hands inhis drinking glass. More water, he says. She likes Danish cheese, and her legsare…
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9 July: Little Hampton Beach
9 July ( A Day at Little Hampton Beach) He says why are they red,those aren’t grapes – grapes are green. and he doesn’t want a red applebecause Snow White keeps eating them,and then she is dead again. his sister eats all of his grapes. She is dressed for the beach. Misha and the bearare…
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8 July: The July Diaries
7 July: The Natural History Museum He says, it’s all bones, bones,but where are the dinosaurs and he doesn’t need the toiletbecause he’ll sit on his bum so poo won’t come out and he likes trains that rattle and then asks, what’s a gap. She can name most every dinosaurin the museum and says her…
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4 July: The July Diaries
He is fascinated by bird poo.pigeon, magpie, and sheep “poopoo”,and wants to poke it with a stick. and that big long one on the pavement isdefinitely dinosaur poop. and then there’s sticks.big sticks are better than cookies. and he wants to know whyhe can’t eat a spider. She says, why won’t the oyster give up…
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2 July: The July Diaries
1 July: Family is visiting. First time we’ve seen the grandchildren (except for video calls) in 3-years. Forgive me if I don’t read and reply to friends’ posts. Things are rather busy around here. He wants broccoli and cauliflower.And anythingred, he says.Not tomatoes.We shall buy strawberries.And maybe a little red car. She who arrives fullof…
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24 June: 14-Lines at 13:30
14-lines at 1:30pm HammeringMetal on wood on wood on wood.Good weather forConstructing a guest bed. Razor edge sun,Fresh air andInsects in and out and in, mostly. A bee’s busy as a bee should be inPink stocks on the table.Bouquet from the garden broughtFrom outside inside. In and out and in, and stillOn wood on wood…
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1 June: Sanctify
Sanctify I remember our last goodbye. A small slip of a tear between us. A kiss on the cheek. Yours felt surprisingly cold for a scorched autumn day, and I remember the blue-eyed sky, the old orchard, apples that fell like red hoofs thundering on the ground, and sunlight was my eternal joy. I have…
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