numbers & rain

it was the last day of term for my students today, and therefore it was a bit mad...

i was pretty vacant being as i'd had not that much sleep, nervously waking up on the hour from 4am onwards...

i started cycling back with D and within a few streets we'd stopped to put on our jackets, then a few streets later our waterproof trousers...

we parted company, as we always do, @ ladbroke grove and i found my way (as i always do) to the regents canal, by which time it had started to chuck it down some...

i was really enjoying the look of the raindrops hitting the water and i stopped after awhile and left my little camera running facing the water, under a bridge, so the raindrops ended in a line in the water...

i was listening to my shuffle and just waiting while my camera filmed, if the rain had let up a bit i would have set off but it just got worse & worse...

i turned the camera the other way and was delighted when a family of geese swam past, one of the gosling's swimming right by the camera...
oh, and numbers,

i was hoping that we might have a coincidence of numbers on saturday, which is the 7th of the 7th month 2007, and it might still happen that my counter over there on the right hits 6666 on 7/7/07 but looking less likely now that it's 58 tonight and there's all of tomorrow to go in between...

either way, whenever it comes i will be doing my customary thing with the 6666th visitor, assuming i can see where you're browsing from i'll post a picture of your town...

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wet

crossing the seven sisters road coming up hornsey... whooping at the top of my lungs... probably noone hearing me except maybe that woman who was about to cross, i was catching the last of that green light...

the rain had been getting gradually worse but just before this it had got considerably wetter in one fell swoop...

i was soaked through...

it had just stopped being a pain and started being quite marvellous... glad to be alive marvellous...

of course the sun is out now, it's been a day of changing amounts...

i'd left the house this morning and the rain was fine and wet but still small... i got out on to hornsey road going south and it opened up... right in my face... really wet... then by the time i reached shoreditch it had almost stopped...

this journey home (with the whoop) had begun with almost no rain.. ending with every single item of clothing i had on being wet...

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