20 – 24 April 2026

Monday Sunrise: 5:54am “Morning!” Podcast man is smiling. He and his dog are early, much further down the street than usual. The sun is up and the air is already lilac scented. In the wood the bluebells are a blue haze and around the edges the stitchwort is out. Dandelion clocks are ticking – some slower than others, fluff weighed down with frost. In the grass, low spider webs have caught the dew. On the path by the side of the fields early cow parsley is coming now and the deadnettles are spreading, both white and pink. But it’s not all bucolic delights. On the backroads someone has dumped a huge builder’s bag of waste – the kind it usually takes a small crane to lift. Large pieces of broken furniture sprawl across the road, surrounded by ripped McDonalds wrappers (last night’s feast for foxes). Later the sky is massive on the way to band practice. Yellow sunlight bleeds through bruise-coloured clouds. On the way home there’s a thin sliver of a silver moon. Tuesday Sunrise: 5:52am…