Totally still morning. Fog - okay, mist - in the valley. I suppose fog like this would be "man fog" on the analogy of "man flu". The ground shimmering slightly, blurring one of the precise elements of the morning. Chilly and wet. Dew on the windows. At this moment, deep silence. One bird, briefly, but not enough to break the silence. A day for lighting indoor fires, although this is only the cold of wetness. No sun, just a grey that could be blue. Clear night last night, stars. The blue-tits figure out gradually that the level in the nut feeder has fallen to the bottom rung. Note: fill it today.
This is a day for turning on all the lights and, er, Spring cleaning the clutter of things left for another day in the office: papers out of synch; old newspapers containing cuttings-to-be. And for assembling all the must-dos that have slid from a past <now> to a future <I'll get round to it> and asking - why not now? Bookmarking passages in fiction where people get paperwork done is a bad sign - especially when the passages on either side are intense. I have an uneasy feeling that at some point during the course of today, I will catch myself telling myself that I really must get organised.
That kind of day. Who was the comedian who said, "I love work. I can sit and look at it for hours"? Possibly Tommy Cooper?
Must get - on with it. Close.
This is a day for turning on all the lights and, er, Spring cleaning the clutter of things left for another day in the office: papers out of synch; old newspapers containing cuttings-to-be. And for assembling all the must-dos that have slid from a past <now> to a future <I'll get round to it> and asking - why not now? Bookmarking passages in fiction where people get paperwork done is a bad sign - especially when the passages on either side are intense. I have an uneasy feeling that at some point during the course of today, I will catch myself telling myself that I really must get organised.
That kind of day. Who was the comedian who said, "I love work. I can sit and look at it for hours"? Possibly Tommy Cooper?
Must get - on with it. Close.