( USA 2012 : Day 12 - Thursday 7th June 2012 )

The Kingfisher Edition ( Read more... )

The "It Is Rather Dark Out There" Edition

Today it is neither raining nor blowing a gale. Given the recent weather that is quite noteworthy. As we pull out of King's Cross there are gaps in the dark grey clouds and their edges are tinged with purple.

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The cold winter's day edition ( Read more... )

Dark. Dark. And thrice I say, Dark. From which, dear reader, you can ascertain that the sun is yet to rise as I start another day of my seemingly endless loop of train travel between London and Leeds. This train appears to be the James Cameron edition as when we reach Leeds we will be "terminating there." So if you are called Sarah Conner, this ( Read more... )

The Cold and Flu Ediition ( Read more... )

The Jacques Cousteau Edition ( Read more... )

Hello darkness my old friend. Yes it’s that time of day and week again in which you hero has to be up before the sun. Though from a technical point of view it is summer, the weather had not been informed and looking out into the park while I waited for my taxi the grass was covered with a shimmer of mist. Overhead a variety of gulls ghosted through ( Read more... )

As we leave Leeds station the rose bay willow herb is now much more white fluffy seeds or bare stems than straight purple clad sticks and what had been a summer\s day turns dark and the clouds press down to oppress us with their heavy loads of soon-to-be-rain nestling inside their soft looking covers. It is not even four pm and already it is as ( Read more... )

Stillness dominates the morning. The lack of a breeze or any clouds in the sky is ominous in a way that it just should not be but is due to the poor to very poor weather of the last few weeks. The budlieas have turned from purple to darkest brown as most of their flowers have faded. Though a few remain in bloom they are the exception and very few ( Read more... )