“Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.”

— Robert Macfarlane, Underland 📚


Sunset approaches.

Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.

Dramatic lighting over Shoreham Fort.

I have earned this today.

A bottle of red wine, about to have its cork removed.

I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.



Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning:

“Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst Twitter: it’s like a bandpass filter that stops useful data getting through.”

🔥


How culture changes:

”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.”

From: Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill 📚


Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊‍♂️


Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with my early morning Sunday trips to the pool. An hour by the poolside with a book and a coffee. 👌🏻

Reading a book called Mermaids by the poolside.

I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in Starbucks last week. It’s been a long time since I consciously thought about their logo… 📚