Goodbye 173

I’m sitting in the November dusk. It’s been a day of firsts. I dressed my first crab. I sent my 9 year old out for his first unaccompanied bike ride around the village and I walked into a bank and paid in a cheque for thousands and thousands of pounds. Sadly it wasn’t mine. The…

Brain Clippings

Yesterday I was running back home and I saw some cows. Nothing remarkable in that, you might think, and you’d be right. Except it was about 3 pm on one of the most perfect winter days ever. The air was pin-sharp, the sky was a pale icy blue and the low sun had painted golden…