December arrived yesterday with frost and sunlight. The sun caught in the harbour was too bright to face. I turned my eyes away and pointed my camera in vaguely the right direction. This morning, the scraping-of-ice-off-the-windscreen kerfuffle was the hardest yet. Worse still, by the time I left work it had to be done again! [...]
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December
Posted in babbies, ice, norway on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whales and worlds
Posted in America, Australia, England, art, family, friends, ice, leeds, light, norway, paragliding on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today the light was soft. Sunlight hazed through billowy clouds, gilding the edges of the harvested fields, getting caught in the golden trees that have already started losing their hair. English weather really. Most mornings, frost glitters on everything, and once the mist clears, the sky is blue as ice.
Quite a lot has happened in [...]
Goodbye Feb
Posted in halden, ice, light, norway, seasons, snow on Saturday, February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I cannot believe it’s the end of February. That’s two months best over and done with! The snow has been pretty. But I can’t wait until I can wander blithely along a footpath again without the very real danger of slipping on the silly ice. Bring on May, I say. May here is just the [...]
Ice crystals
Posted in books, ice, phd, snow, writing on Thursday, February 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I took this on the weekend. Not sure the past three days could be accurately described as my most productive days ever. Have put aside my loathed theory chapter for now (just wish it was less flimsy), and am getting back to one of my poets. Hopefully keeping feelings of hate and wretchedness at bay. [...]
A Sunday drive
Posted in ice, lakes, lovie, norway, seasons, snow on Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This afternoon we drove up along our regular summer cycling route, marveling at the icicles cascading over the rocks on the side of the road, and the little green islands in the middle of the frozen lakes. At the end of the route, we got out and had a stroll. I can’t believe I swam [...]
This is the weather forecast for today and tomorrow. As you can see, sunshine, with a delightful temperature range of between minus five and minus fourteen. (Here’s the weather website.)
The town is still covered in snow. It is soft and dry and light, like dust. I tried to make a snowball the other day and [...]
Ice-bright
Posted in creatures, halden, ice, image-poem, light, seasons on Sunday, January 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We haven’t seen the sun in days. But when it comes back it will be too bright to face.
Fierce and low and white. And the whole of this tilting world
this flat, glinting, patterned world
will tip into its arms.
Duck on ice
Posted in creatures, ice on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Pretty much sums it up right now.
Cold
Posted in almost disaster, creatures, halden, houses, ice, light, norway, phd, seasons, snow on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We got back on Monday night. It was freezing. I have never been in a house so cold. The sheets were crisp with cold, even our clothes in their drawers. The floor was slippery. The toilet seat burned. We put the heater on in our bedroom and shut the door, and snuggled in with extra [...]
Chimneys and words and packages
Posted in Christmas, England, disasters, family, germany, ice, lovie, norway, phd, snuggle-car, writing on Sunday, December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another view of the Bingley chimneys. And the semi-frozen canal. The ducks promonade around here much as they do in Halden. The thesis chugs along. I reckon I’ll get it finished in early February, or possibly late January. I got my chapter one (extension of intro) nearly written. I felt like I was juggling [...]
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