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fiat_knoxSomething I have to post here: something I should have reported yesterday.
A flock of geese flew overhead yesterday afternoon, as I was heading into the shed. I watched them in their V-shaped flock as they flew virtually directly overhead, on a roughly northerly trajectory. I called Dad out to watch them fly past.
For me, the observation of a flight of geese heading off towards the Wirral Peninsula, Liverpool Bay and points north is the definitive sign of winter's arrival.
And that makes the second call for me to go to that beach this week.
I don't often feel the call to go to the sea. There's usually an element of the stars being right, islands rising and Great Cthulhu receiving his early morning wakeup call. For a' that I'm Cancerian, I'm pretty much a confirmed land crab. :)
But it looks like a visit to a lonely place for a spot of meditation in an empty, desolate, off-season spot looks to be on the cards. And I'd best make plans for a patrol there soon.
I'm always glad to catch sight of the geese, though. I've watched them go every Autumn for more than ten years, and marked the event as a milestone of the year.
Nine times out of the last ten years, I've observed them from a railway carriage coming home from patrol - usually Liverpool, sometimes Manchester, but always whilst I've been on the move. This year was the exception.
Which brings me to my next point. I last patrolled, oh, at the start of October - I went up to Manchester. :) I'd been planning on making another trip out to Liverpool on or about the 22nd, but a sudden yet not wholly unexpected change to my personal circumstances put a crashing and immediate halt to my patrolling anywhere for a time.
Well, that change to my circumstances is still ongoing - but it looks as if, overall, it will be ultimately to my benefit. Not so much in the short term; definitely in the long term, though.
And so, tentatively, I can announce that, pretty soon, I shall be resuming my patrols to these cities again. I might even go so far as to combine my patrolling with some jobsearching - for how better way to prove my wilingness to look for work than by purchasing a copy of the Liverpool Echo, Chester Chronicle or Birmingham Post, or catch a free copy of the Manchester Evening News, on the day they publish the want ads columns? :)
See, I think of everything. >:D
A flock of geese flew overhead yesterday afternoon, as I was heading into the shed. I watched them in their V-shaped flock as they flew virtually directly overhead, on a roughly northerly trajectory. I called Dad out to watch them fly past.
For me, the observation of a flight of geese heading off towards the Wirral Peninsula, Liverpool Bay and points north is the definitive sign of winter's arrival.
And that makes the second call for me to go to that beach this week.
I don't often feel the call to go to the sea. There's usually an element of the stars being right, islands rising and Great Cthulhu receiving his early morning wakeup call. For a' that I'm Cancerian, I'm pretty much a confirmed land crab. :)
But it looks like a visit to a lonely place for a spot of meditation in an empty, desolate, off-season spot looks to be on the cards. And I'd best make plans for a patrol there soon.
I'm always glad to catch sight of the geese, though. I've watched them go every Autumn for more than ten years, and marked the event as a milestone of the year.
Nine times out of the last ten years, I've observed them from a railway carriage coming home from patrol - usually Liverpool, sometimes Manchester, but always whilst I've been on the move. This year was the exception.
Which brings me to my next point. I last patrolled, oh, at the start of October - I went up to Manchester. :) I'd been planning on making another trip out to Liverpool on or about the 22nd, but a sudden yet not wholly unexpected change to my personal circumstances put a crashing and immediate halt to my patrolling anywhere for a time.
Well, that change to my circumstances is still ongoing - but it looks as if, overall, it will be ultimately to my benefit. Not so much in the short term; definitely in the long term, though.
And so, tentatively, I can announce that, pretty soon, I shall be resuming my patrols to these cities again. I might even go so far as to combine my patrolling with some jobsearching - for how better way to prove my wilingness to look for work than by purchasing a copy of the Liverpool Echo, Chester Chronicle or Birmingham Post, or catch a free copy of the Manchester Evening News, on the day they publish the want ads columns? :)
See, I think of everything. >:D
