Saturday, 2 May 2026

Ad Lib 31

Amorous Oystercatchers respond to the hormonal tick of nature's clock. As April turns to May, with the season yet to settle.

Rhythmic rowers glide past Stargazer's sunfilled cockpit. On a warm windless breakfast-in-the-cockpit morning.

Wind whipped white horses race toward the Tidemill during a wild afternoon walk.

Whilst warm jackets ward off the chill for the black box bearing pilots. . . .

. . . .of diminutive yachts. Which dance, to the tempo of swirling gusts, across a heaving Emsworth Mill Pond.


Fields and foreshore are cloaked in spring green, freckled with blossom and bright wildflowers. Days grow longer. The sun's heat stronger.


But still the four winds hold to unruly wintery ways: alternating gales with calms. Stargazer must bide her time, whilst they steady into summer moderation.







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