on the return of swifts and the company of cormorants

The sky is grey again for the first time in a season, and the swifts have returned – breathtakingly – from their continental journeys. Reunited above the terraced rooves of our coastal city streets a-slumber, arriving with the aseasonality which claims to be such a gift. A sunny sea-soaked weekend again and the joy of dipping in a still-bracing ocean.

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