January

 The taps and cracks in this house sound like conversations sometimes. They have a rhythm of interaction with each other in clusters. There are many reasons for them, wood contracting, water moving in pipes, the Aga cooling ect but then there are the human ones such as my wifes highly annoying habit of clicking her jaws, and my daughter occasionally her fingers. One click from where ever triggers several more in a cluster. Its these clusters that have me thinking there is an order here. Is this house a mimic ?

It feels like Christmas outside tonight. There is an energy of expectation. Ive always found January a powerful and dramatic month when the weather is bright and wintery. The sun rises just high enough to start shining in at the backdoor now. That sunlight and the shadows, it reminds me of the hundreds of years and the many people who have lived here through out history, all their hopes, fears and misery no doubt.

My temper has been awful these last few days. One broken fan heater, one broken tv remote and an outside back door door that I slammed now has the glass window come very loose on it. Actually Im in quite a productive enthusiastic mood, which is odd. Ive found anger also triggers a can do attitude sometimes. Its all energy after all. The phrase " feeling bullish " springs to mind.