
Winds batter the shore;
gulls, ever my companions.
Sand between my toes
Copyright Francis 2021
Winds batter the shore;
gulls, ever my companions.
Sand between my toes
Copyright Francis 2021
Weather matching moods
Analogous depression
Dankness wall to wall
Rain seals the darkness
Roosting birds watch silently
Humans mourn the day
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
I have to confess I have never heard of the ‘foehn effect’, nor do I admit to understanding it having now digested the information, yet when temperatures in northern Scotland briefly reach nearly 17 degrees C overnight, it makes you pause over your morning coffee. And this at a time of year when the average overnight temperature is around freezing point.
My only ‘experience’ of such unusually warm winter weather was when I was a baby, according to my late mother.
Apparently, it was warm enough one dark January evening for her to sit by the riverside in her short sleeves whilst watching me in a pram. Even if such memories did distort the truth over time, I saw no reason to disbelieve her.
copyright Francis Barker 2019
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