I’ve started a writing course, just for fun and as an experiment, and to get me out of the house and around people. I’m really enjoying it so I’ll be writing for 15 minutes a day whenever possible and publishing my writing there and then, unedited. Images will probably be random and unrelated to the content. Any feedback most welcome!

The freshly washed laundry billows gently in the breeze. Pristine planters brimming with seasonal blooms adorn the sage green wooden fence. A hula hoop hangs casually over a small wooden hut, a construction that belonged to my previous next door neighbours, handed down to my neighbours 2 doors down for Jo’s first grandson, Theo. A selection of jumbo vehicles are strewn higgledy piggledy along the astroturf, stalled for the time being after a bout of bumper truck fun and games. The swing is motionless, begging to fulfil its purpose. The door to the cat enclosure is open. I wonder where it is. I often hear its loud pedigree vocalises. Next to it is a pop up greenhouse, its flimsy plastic walls concealing its contents.

I look up to see small hills half a mile away, reaching up towards the puffy silver white clouds. A buzzard circles way up high, lazily using the thermals to pursue potential prey. Thick patches of dark green trees punctuate the landscape. A sequence of telegraph poles join wires, connecting, communicating.