Onychocryptosis

A not unpleasant ingrown toenail of a day, as a kind of drawbridge comes up, a slipper slips on, and the family all stay in. (The 4-year-old sits at his grandfather's computer finding free online games while the 7-year-old watches an adult drama with her grandmother, aunt and cousin.) Somewhere in this confection is the artist, checking the skyline for change, in order she can gather those upstream images. Yesterday she tried but as the light was failing, it was too late. Tomorrow I must return alone to the capital. I have a view of my own. A kind of ice-rink of grey denotes the sky. Neat pencil lines of three electricity wires run from one bank of trees to another. The trees lining the road wait like spectators for a bike-race. A smoking tractor burns uphill. (One tree moves more than the others.) In the foreground is a spider web, stretched and laddered like a Berliner's stocking. A paperback about bravery and fanaticism lies face-down on the sill, next to an emptied cake wrapper. Ingrown toenails may develop for many reasons. Some cases are congenital - the nail is just too large for the toe. Not this one. These are active feet. These are clipped nails. But we all like a day when there's no chance of putting one's foot in it. Why, the artist may even have found her upstream images by close of play.
Onychocryptosis: ingrown toenail