The Spark Crew - January: Movement (02)

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[Apologies for the lack of voiceover this time. I’m having an allergic reaction today due to an ill-advised sartorial decision. While my content savvy 11 year-old (who taught herself to video edit and launched a YouTube channel this month) thinks I should take advantage of my newfound husky tone to record audio, it really hurts to talk.]

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It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that I’m sliding in to Substack with less than two hours of January to go. What can feel like a never-ending month suddenly seems to have accelerated since Scotland was hit by Storm Éowyn* last weekend. We were lucky to experience only minor damage and a 20 hour power cut, while some of our less fortunate neighbours were cut off for up to five days.

After the very real fear of the windows blowing in had abated, and the anxiety induced by the storm alert blasting through our phones (autistic nightmare) had peaked, there was the incident with the accidentally dropped laptop to deal with, swiftly followed by the leaking washing machine. All while wading through the bureaucracy involved to plan a shoot in another continent. Many Haribos were eaten my friends.

* According to Wikipedia, Éowyn was “an extremely powerful and record-breaking extratropical cyclone”. I appreciate this descriptor. Hurricane force winds feel deserving of something grandiose. Which reminds me of the time Cyclone Friedhelm landed north of the wall in 2011, and Scottish folks renamed it “Hurricane Bawbag”.