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Boarded the slow train
is there a fast one I muse
villages pass by
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by Scooj
Tag: Haiku
Preparation
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Enforced interview
37 years assessed
in 45 mins
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by Scooj
- On Monday I have an interview to save my bacon. 16 people for 10 posts. I am the oldest by some margin. Unconscious bias will be on show, without doubt (there is evidence of it in other rounds of this restructuring). Not only preparing for interview, but also mentally preparing to move on from the job I have loved more than any other to date. I know that worse things happen at sea, and I am resilient and experienced enough to move on. Simply annoying and upsetting.
Greater burdock
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Sticky hooked seed heads
bring out my inner mischief
asking to be thrown
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by Scooj
Autumn creep
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Quite snuck up on me
early fall of withered leaves
masking autumn’s start
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by Scooj
Greening
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With a little rain
a parched landscape gently greens
a slow recovery
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by Scooj
Typos
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My faty fingers
foorever fluffing keystrokes
double dou8ble check
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by Scooj
- is it just me?
Drink
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Parched landscape, hard rain
oh! to hear the ground groaning
drinking a long drink
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by Scooj
- Yesterday my area (one of the last in the country) fell into a Temporary Use Ban (TUB), more commonly known as Hosepipe Ban. This is an administrative stage in the drought management process and is designed to slow the demand on water resources. Although the groundwater situation is generally good after a very wet winter, rivers and reservoirs are very low, and it will take a long period of persistent rain to recover them. All the while people are still using water in high volumes, hence the ban.
Mischief
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Sunflower splendour
cut short in its majesty
hungriest squirrel
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by Scooj
Dryad’s Saddle
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Parched vegetation
makes way for fungal brackets
woodland survivor
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by Scooj
Flatlands
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Lincolnshire flatlands
reach over The Wash to Norfolk
little in between
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by Scooj
Natural adventures 