Alice Walker: ‘Horses make a landscape look more beautiful’

the moon comes with

Addled from exposure to a particularly ill-conceived London local council tax reduction scheme, I may now be as estranged from logic as its authors. (if this means nothing to you, be happy)

Sheep grazing towards the sun.

Turns out men in somewhat later life can make new friends.

ChatGPT: story detective. Which short story features a man being tested to become immortal? He awakens in a strange enclosed space. A friend has previously shown him a Mobius strip and he figures that he is inside a Klein bottle.

Idea for paper: prompt engineering as ideomotor effect. Is an LLM just a ouija board with a dodgy encyclopaedia?

Shadows and snow on the South Downs. On the track, the snow was crisp and washed my trainers clean of the week’s chalk mud.

Something lunar about today’s short light.

First walk after horrible bronchial fuckery.

On every lamppost a crow: it’s cold.

Beech tree retaining its looks in this light.

Clear spot in the hollowway.

Visited Hull after many years away. Wish I’d brought my copy of @nemoloris.bsky.social ‘s Dark and True and Tender with me.

Walking with new phone on a windy evening. A kestrel obligingly shows up.

Found this on eBay, designed and illustrated by my dad for Camell Laird in the 1970s. Later today I’ll take his cap off its peg and leave the house to its new owners.

Now that my children spend most of their time away, household investigations are brutally efficient. Who deadheaded the rosebush with the kitchen scissors? I did. And I'd do it again.

the nettles impossibly green at this hour

It’ll be back.

The light is back

Half a century later, I still wake up sometimes wanting to be an astronomer.

Some time in (probably) the late 70s, R Young (painter, electrician) offered to buy C A Duffy (playwright, poet) a pint in exchange for a poem. He later gave this to my parents.

Returning light

Just before dawn at Woodingdean, Venus, Moon and aerial. Five fingered cloud above them.

Is DWP using LLMs to write press releases now? The disability element of universal credit does not exist and 'positive' UC awards per the quoted paragraph are not a thing. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Says he’s no fan of the carceral state. Still plays Ford or Broadmoor with the new cabinet.

The twins? Over the moon. [Brighton last night - Castor top, Pollux centre]