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A dusting of frost whitens the roof tiles: the wheelie bin’s iced shut again. Vapour trails slice the haze. I imagine excited passengers in flight to warm seas and warmer blue skies than mine.
I wear fingerless gloves as I type, slippered feet resting on a hot water bottle, body wreathed in layers: vest, blankets, jumpers – a scarf.
But the sun shines brilliant and golden on the old gas fire, brightening photographs of my smiling son and a Valentine’s Day card. Along with the blankets I’m wreathed in valuables – that card, those photos.
I don’t envy those holiday makers and their week on a beach.
I’d rather be here than anywhere.
That is lovely! Gorgeous descriptive piece.
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Ah, thank you! 🙂
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Beautiful and evocative. Beautiful Bristol. We lived there for seven years. The city my daughter was born in x
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It certainly has its lovely aspects. Days like today, down by the harbour, watching the gulls fall out with the pigeons, the ferries bobbing on the water – lovely:) I have a soft spot for Manchester City’s ground – the hospital my son was born in overlooks the stadium. I could see it from my bed!
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Beautiful!
I missed being in Bristol this weekend. Would have loved to be around for the 6Music Festival…
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It was by all accounts amazing. Of course, I missed the whole lot, being in a shop the other side of town, but you gotta love 6 Music and Bristol’s pretty good at throwing a party – street party capital of the UK, I’m told. 🙂
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You paint a nice scene, there, Lynn! I’m happy you’re happy. Here in Texas today, it’s a bright and sunny 70 degrees F (21 C, I think, according to the Google converter). After five years in Ohio, where on a day like today it’s more likely to be 0 C or (much) lower, I’m pleased as punch to be here. 🙂
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Sounds like a perfect temperature to me! Does it get awfully hot there too, though? I’m perfectly content at a temperature of around 17 / 18C – ‘cardigan weather’ my mum calls it! Much colder and it’s chilly, much hotter and it gets very muggy here – hot and moist . I’m such a Brit – discussing the weather 🙂
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It gets outrageously hot. 38 C or more for weeks on end. But I’ll take that over -17 C for weeks on end, as we had in Ohio for the last couple of years. Those crazy Polar Vortexes. Fie upon them.
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