Sunday August 15, 2021

Goodnight friends! A few days of stultefying pressure and grey skies came to a head today. Such a uniform, shapeless looming lightless heaviness that I rarely felt I noticed any difference at all between 10AM or 3PM or 7PM. Soundless rain began as a ghostly prickling caress and slowly, slowly thickening until everything was silently drenched through.

Joint aches subduing and dispiriting, but I felt better prepared to take things easy. I ended up doing laundry and making a few tiny slivers of progress in the seemingly endless marathon process of tidying the flat, which beneath a loosely orderly surface sometimes feels like a decade’s worth of solid muddle and chaos I have to tread gingerly over to avoid tumbling down into.

May we find recognition and fellow-feeling with our friends and peers today!