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The window out of my toilet points north, by which I mean I can see houses facing south if I look out of it. It's a little too high to see out of comfortably, so I have to stand on tiptoe to peer out of it. I can just see the back of another crescent when I do so, which stands 4 stories tall, carved from the same golden limestone that Georgian buildings both here and in Bath are, and because it's the back of it, the walls are not uniformly flat, but rather full of dents and crevices, odd jutting sections where it's been built out, and sunken bits where it's been taken in. It's maybe a couple of hundred meters away.
Because it's behind our crescent, when the sun first rises in the morning, it doesn't hit that building straight on, but it rather filters over the top of my crescent, and in through gaps in other buildings. But the end result is when I first get up in the morning these days, and peek out of that window, what I see is the tops of the buildings a bathed in brilliant early light, with the occasional stripe streaking downward. It's like the entire thing has been picked up and dipped in paint that fluoresces, then put back in place while still wet, so it's dripping in spots.
It's very pretty.
Also, tonight I nearly had Steve on the ropes with Magic. Didn't quite get there, but it very much came down to who could do the most damage on the next turn, and turned out to be him. Drat it, but still better than my previous performances. Might get the hang of this damned game yet.
Because it's behind our crescent, when the sun first rises in the morning, it doesn't hit that building straight on, but it rather filters over the top of my crescent, and in through gaps in other buildings. But the end result is when I first get up in the morning these days, and peek out of that window, what I see is the tops of the buildings a bathed in brilliant early light, with the occasional stripe streaking downward. It's like the entire thing has been picked up and dipped in paint that fluoresces, then put back in place while still wet, so it's dripping in spots.
It's very pretty.
Also, tonight I nearly had Steve on the ropes with Magic. Didn't quite get there, but it very much came down to who could do the most damage on the next turn, and turned out to be him. Drat it, but still better than my previous performances. Might get the hang of this damned game yet.
