slight infection phenomenal day

robbed.

irritating to be sucked in to giving a shit about the football by that disallowed goal, years of not supporting england and then suddenly i care, only for england to lose...

this slight feeling of down, normal football fans must have this so regularly, your whole emotional state governed by something completely external to you... football is nuts,

an incredible day for weather, (so typically english), opened my curtains to a blue sky so i wore my thin indian trousers to work, as i left the house a grey sky laughed at me, i stuck it out... i was walking with funki g after work, celebrating the beautiful day it eventually turned out to be, she got on a bus, i was walking up to liverpool street, got utterly drenched moments later in a sudden downpour...

i had to go out to sawbridgeworth to see a project being run by one of my students, strange part of the world, essex, very pretty.
went past hackney marsh on the train, near stamford hill where i used to live, that church with the almost pagan statues around the spire... strong memories of place,

so on the train back into town, just as the england - portugal game kicked off, there was the most amazing series of high atmosphere events, beginning with majestic banks of clouds bordering a blue sky with the sun low on the horizon, thickening out over london into dark storm clouds, just where we were heading. if you looked in the right place you could see right under the storm clouds, to a patch of lighter grey a long way off, really dark but small clouds over there. it was all about light traveling long distances, the sun so low it illuminated the underside of the murky weather.

as we drew in closer to london it started raining a little, sunlight, rain, classic rainbow territory... and sure enough, moving to the other side of the carriage, (rainbows are always seen with your back to the sun), a beautiful rainbow in sharp focus, all the way over, with it's second weaker outer rim, inside the semicircle of the rainbow, such a luminous grey... heavenly. very aware that i'd run out of photos before the rainbow, such a nice / odd shot with the rainbow, and the reflection of the blue skies behind me, lost, or maybe remembered all the better...

as we approached tottenham hale the southern end of the rainbow started dissolving, seemingly a lull in the rain where i was headed, got home just after half time,

robbed.