Okay, so for exercise 7 I’ve been tasked with trying describe something familiar with one or two ordinary words that you wouldn’t normally use in that context so, hear goes.

Let me know what you think in comments.

Close by, it started with some minor swirls of colour, very quickly blending into a myriad of reds and greens and browns appearing as streaks to the naked eye. Further away, it was a different story as the sky moved slowly and the planes happily seam through the air as they made their way to their destination.

By now, the colours close by had become one with each other, part of a blurred smeary landscape. Occasionally, if I moved my head in line with this smear, for that split second, I could make out the detail of a tree or a fence.

Then, as quickly as it started, it began to slow. Colours burst out of the smear to show themselves again. Details appeared across the landscape and I started to make out the people on the platform, windswept by the train I was on as it pulled into the station