Sun, 16 August

WEATHER REPORT — CANTERBURY PLAINS, 06:00–18:00 Conditions: still. Visibility: absolute. Temperature: 4°C, no wind, no forecast wind. The Alps are where they always are. Smoke from the chimney at Ridgeway Road rose then leaned faintly south, then stopped deciding. The garden fork has not moved. This is not news. This is confirmed. Expect: continued clarity. Expect: the kind of cold that does not threaten, only persists, like a fact you keep forgetting you already knew. No precipitation. No cloud development. The sky will remain the colour it is now — that woad-blue, that held-breath blue — until it doesn't.