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A compound word for the growing intuition of your own internal physical structure based on the parts that become audible over time.

7:27 pm

My first prompt: a crime caper in a kindergarten featuring a proud mother…

So just your bog-standard Muppet Babies / Oceans 11 mashup.

10:38 am

Tiny hail that sounds like sand falling.

3:51 pm

One of those days when the ground is brighter than the sky.

9:15 am

MacBook-chassis-causes-pain weather.

7:36 am

Kids in hugely padded hoods playing in a half-inch of snow under a streetlight. You forget the gloriousness of weather as you get older.

8:26 pm

Better to be caught in a blizzard than face those two ancient mattresses and whatever might now lurk inside the broken, abandoned freezer.

12:17 pm

One just tried to break into my garage in disgust. Didn’t like the look of it. Don’t entirely blame them.

12:14 pm

Neighbourhood cats hiding under cars.

12:10 pm

Snowfall! And the muffled, distant complaints of birds.

12:08 pm

The end of my first week back at work after a three week break and I’ve managed to sleep strenuously enough to hurt my eyes.

10:37 am

We have entered the Screaming Chimney days of windy winter.

4:37 pm

Yet a single meaty cloud passes and you no longer have enough light to see across the room.

1:39 pm

It’s the season of accidental shiny-surface-induced blindness.

1:08 pm

I’d forgotten how the Big Christmas Tree acted as a diffuser. At this time of year any unobscured sunlight comes in through the rear window like a laser.

12:39 pm

The perfect winter’s evening reading soundtrack: loud-enough-to-be-heard wind and empty-sounding streets.

6:58 pm

December is when I started to follow mainly photographers and artists on Mastodon rather than predominantly just the same old ‘opinionated tech’ folks from the other site. No regrets.

7:39 pm (1 image)

Ah, here we go, the first vague anxiety of the new year: wondering if the neighbours silently judge me for the Christmas lights still blazing from every surface inside the house like a lighthouse beam.

1:23 pm

Strong winds and the low winter sun turning trees into disco balls.

1:00 pm

The precious discovery of an unopened, family-size box of Maltesers that mysteriously survived Christmas.

11:47 am