07:12 – 07:54, wind SSW 2 gusting 3, temp 5C (feels like 5)
oNe man, hood up, sits at tHe back of the bus topiary Spirals upwards six piNts on the doorstep a paperboy trollIes his load a drop-leaf table lyinG across the skip a dunnock propositions tHe world a lyTch gate to the garage the house wIth two porsche’s … and a beNtley eighteen Geese ‘v’ north above the green fellow travellers wAlk the streets the sparrowhawk fLap glidE flaps through
07:08 – 07:54, wind W 3 gusting 4, temp 3C (feels like -1)
off to deFine the south east Inlet jaywalk oVer the temporary lights empty bussEs a light frost crisPs the grass joggers cross the lIttle moor along the grove of no myrtLes … though there is an elderfLower the paperboy neAtly folds the day’s news primulas by cowslips in a stReet corner bed plump liPs by “award winning surgeons” sheds and greenhouses stud the alLotments a blAckcap sings flits jumps sings “suppliers of household requisites siNce 1947”
07:00 – 07:41, wind W 6 gusting 9, temp 8C (feels like 4)
off To define the northErnmost peninsula the wind mimicS the lost Traffic roar drIfts of daffodils a lurcher ruNs towards us a roGue rhododendron please don't park in Front of these gates an overgrown pAth across alley gaRages with huge shuttered doors a concrete fRont garden full of vegetAble trays a street sweepinG machine bumbles along back alley slabs cut to make flOwer beds
06:59 – 07:44, wind W 3 gusting 4, temp 5C (feels like 2)
heading for The NW peninsula a man in black gOes to work on a harley a small juDas tree An X18 with nobody on it nearlY walk in front of a bike tree-top blackbird Song the sparroWhawk flushes everything off the field on wolsinghAm road bunting still flies house sparrow fLies off with a feather in its beak tree-top finch flocK
11:12 – 11:59, wind NNW 2 gusting 3, temp8C (feels like 6)
wren sings on the garden fenCe looping through the sOuth east cherRy in full flOwer the bell paiNted black fewer people less trAffic iVy rotted fence a poInter and an old black lab duck thRough the fence cows on dUke’s moor smell of woodSmoke
15:16 – 16:03, wind NNE 4 gusting 6, temp 10C (feels like 7)
dog puShed along in a baby buggy bush Of sparrow’s Chirp greetIngs passing at distAnce poLice car makes a sharp right turn jay-walk across the main roaD side roads Into Jesmond outside the house builderS stand chatting pass The ruined chapel Along the dene two meN talk across the road patChes of sunshine always walking into thE wind
06:50 – 07:32, wind N 4 gusting 6, temp 6C (feels like 2).
zig-zag To the nOrth west shiny hoarDings promise sumptuous bAthrooms as crYing gulls circle two magpies joStle at a roadkill housing estate haunt of winter Waxwings parked up cArs line the driveways oLd nest in a pruned shrub cracKed paving slabs
