A rather bigger rock (in the face)

'There might be some sensitivity', the dentist warned.
I'm glad he didn't say it would really hurt.

The ibuprofen isn't working.

Small stones 2012. The sort of stone that gets under your foot during a country walk in poor shoes.

Darkness like a wartime blackout curtain has given way to sea-storm grey-blue.
Was that the dawn?

Small stones 2012

I'm not going to play every day this year (that's obvious really, since this is my first and it's already January 4) but I'll drop a few pebbles in the stream.

The last few Christmas lights twinkle forlornly in the January gloom, like the crystals on a jilted bride’s veil.