When you’re weary.

@xFiacre (15487)
Ireland
October 2, 2026 2:48am CST
I drove my wife to the airport yesterday morning at 5.30, well before sun up. On the way back things changed. The sun was still invisible, but its influence of light and heat was starting to make itself felt. I noticed the eastern sky start to turn a purply mauve colour as if she’d started to bruise after being punched. I took the back roads to avoid traffic and headlights, and had it been an hour later I would have parked up off the road along Shane’s Hill to watch the sun come up over Scotland and the sea, all green and apricot with wispy cloud. Later today, just as the sun will be preparing to disappear again, I’ll be heading back to the airport to collect the lady, and I’ll have to labour in home-bound traffic at the end of everyone else’s working day.
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (14903)
• United Kingdom
2 Oct
Well, welll, well, hasn’t somebody got a poetic way with words today …. All green and apricot with wispy cloud ….. Anyway, I hope your wife enjoyed her short trip …. Hope you didn’t go down the fast food route again whilst she was away .
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@traceyjayne No, but I hoovered today and I haven’t mislaid the new cat. Yet.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@Traceyjayne I’m always mislaying them but they always turn up.
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (14903)
• United Kingdom
2 Oct
@xFiacre hey well done ….you make a lovely wife x P.s. did you mislay the old cat ?
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Fleur
@Fleura (36168)
• United Kingdom
2 Oct
That's a brief trip for your wife.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@fleura Brief and expensive. The two of them meet up in Glasgow and eat and go to theatre.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@Fleura She alternates between Glasgow and Manchester to see daughters 1 and 2. I haven’t yet suggested that I might do a solo visit to see my brother in Bayeux.
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Fleur
@Fleura (36168)
• United Kingdom
2 Oct
@xFiacre what a jet-setting lifestyle!
Amber
@AmbiePam (132071)
• United States
2 Oct
I take the back roads to avoid traffic too. But you make it sound much better than I could.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@ambiepam Thank you for your kind words.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (179042)
• United States
2 Oct
I can't see the sun this morning even if I tried. We have pea soup fog here. I can't see the street right in front of the house. I can see vehicle headlights driving past but that's about it.
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PsalmOneCares
@everwonderwhy (7295)
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2 Oct
This is so poetic and creative writing. The imagery breezed through my mind. As I closed with eyes, I felt I was there walking on the countryside of Scotland. The sun kissing my cheeks as it shyly and gracefully unveil its warm embrace. So, how did your lovely wife's trip go? :-)
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (15487)
• Ireland
2 Oct
@everwonderwhy I get her back from Scotland at 7 tonight.
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The Fly One
@aureliah (25034)
• Kenya
2 Oct
I hate sitting in traffic. The view off the Shane's Hill sounds picturesque
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Michael
@Wrexxo (10349)
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2 Oct
Love how you described that sky, the bruised mauve part really stuck with me. Shane's Hill at sunrise sounds like a spot worth getting up early for. Hope the drive back with your wife goes smooth, even with all that traffic.