september '20

• seeing uranus out the bathroom window when I went to the toilet in the early hours
• a fox running around in the abandoned pub car park in the morning when I looked out the window
• a wasp flying in and out of multiples holes in the trellis that divides us and next-door
• the moon and venus at 5am
• mars at 5am
• a robin singing in the tree at dawn
• a small dog running in the park with a frisbee round its neck like a necklace
• sunlight sparkling on the lily pads on the canal
• being slightly annoyed to find a car blocking the driveway but smiling when I saw the angel number 44 on its number plate
• sitting in the sun in the garden and thin...

• bats
• black-headed gull
• blackbirds
• blackcaps
• blue tits
• brimstone butterfly
• buzzards
• canada geese
• cetti's warbler
• chaffinches
• chiffchaffs
• collared doves
• common gulls
• common tern
• coots
• cormorants
• crows
• dragonflies
• dunnocks
• egyptian geese
• feral pigeon/rock dove

• snow
• rabbits
• nettles
• muntjac deer
• bonfire ashes
• litter
• ice
• mud
• bees
• conkers
• an empty condom packet
• carvings on a bench
• butterflies
  • red admiral
  • peacock
  • brimstone
  • orange tip
  • white
• puddles
• overgrown paths

• bluebells
• bramble flower
• common mullein (verbascum thapsus)
• cow parsley
• cuckoo pint berries
• ferns
• forget me nots (pink & blue)
• herb-robert
• hogweed
• holly
• lesser celandine
• lily of the valley
• snowberries
• snowdrops
• summer lilac (butterfly bush)
• wild garlic/ramsons
• woody nightshade (bittersweet)

• the noise collared doves make
• little chefs
• conkers
• ladybirds
• cattle grids
• the sound of starlings
• blackbird song
• the smell of leather
• shoe shops
• the smell of chlorine
• hover flies
• the smell of shoe polish
• tree roots
• motorway service stations
• jackdaws
• falling asleep in the car at night
• paper plates and paper cups
• food in napkins (especially cake)
• mirror mazes
• grandfather clocks
• russian dolls

• a comet - 5th September 2020 around 5.40-5.45am
• blue moon
• blood moon
• supermoon
• moon halo/moon ring/winter halo/22° halo
• international space station
• other satelites
• an odd shooting star/meteor - 1st January 2020 around 12.10am south
• leonids meteor shower - november 2018
• geminids meteor shower - december 2018
• perseids meteor shower - august 2019
• red sun
• leo constellation
• orion constellation
• planets: mars, uranus, venus, saturn, pluto, jupiter.
• an odd shooting star/meteor (September Epsilon Perseids) - 15th September 2020 aro...

• blackbirds
• blackcap
• blue tits
• cetti's warbler
• chaffinch
• collared doves
• crow
• dunnocks
• goldfinches
• great spotted woodpecker
• great tits
• long tailed tits
• magpies
• ring necked parakeets
• robins
• rock doves/rock pigeons
• song thrush
• sparrow
• starlings
• willow warbler (?)
• woodpigeons

tl;dr - brown • red • purple • pink • orange • blonde (bleached) • blue • green

• vivid green
• green juice
• deep red (don't do this one again, too messy)
• purple punk
• electric blue
• shocking pink
• absolute platinum
• cyber purple
• max blonde
• cranberry bliss
• amethyst chrome
• red passion
• mango twist
• raspberry rebel
• forever red
• real red
• scandalous scarlet