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⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ Here we go!
On living in the moment: Today, this one-of-a-kind day
Currently reading: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex 📚
Always a little apprehensive when starting a book bought as a gift. Let’s see how this goes.
It’s Norway vs Austria for us at the Euros tonight. I’ll always take the game with something to play for over a dead rubber ⚽️
Today I am grateful that it is significantly cooler in the north east than it is in the south.
I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed.
Today I am grateful for seeing Izzy again after five days apart.
I am looking forward to being at the Germany v Spain Euros match tonight.
Sports day…
🏉 Australia v England
🎾 Rybakina v Jabeur
🏏 England v India
⚽️ Netherlands v Sweden
This is my favourite tree in Jesmond Dene. I love the variety of colours and how it catches the late afternoon light.
Do you have a favourite tree in your local park?
January to June in my local park
A chair collapsed underneath me today. Now I find myself viewing all chairs that I approach with suspicion
Human beings are like jazz musicians; always improvising.
Fortuitous to be in the car with 6Music on the radio yesterday to catch Herbie Hancock on The First Time with Matt Everitt
Spent the morning with Hockney at Salts Mill. Fell in love with a tree 😍
Finished reading: The Locals by Jonathan Dee 📚
Found this massively underwhelming, if not irritating. Dee seemed to start lots of plot lines and then just let them trail off. About two thirds through I asked my wife if anything happened before the end, she said yes… it did not.
When I started co-working at Good Space in Commercial Union House we knew that one day it would be knocked down. Four years later they finally did it and this is all that remains
Got my watercolours out today and enjoyed getting a feel for the brushes again. Realised this may be the first time I’ve painted as an adult! It won’t be the last 🎨
Up and out for a walk before the Bank Holiday crowds. Lovely and fresh after last night’s downpour
What a morning of cricket! Delighted for local lad Matthew Potts on his debut. Trying not to get ahead of myself though; difficult to tell from the radio whether we’ve been good or NZ aren’t up to scratch… and have to wait to see how we bat 😬🏏
Finished reading: A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry 📚
Another gem. I don’t know any other author who weaves poetry into the narrative like Barry does.
Too nice not to head out for a stroll this evening
Just found out a local coffee roastery is opening a shop within 100 yards of my flat. Can’t decide if this is the best thing to happen this week (excellent coffee on my doorstep) or the worst (there’s already a beer cafe so soon I’ll have no pocket money left!)