1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmine flowers.
2. Green beans squeaking in my teeth.
3. We watch The Goonies. It's fun to see it through adult eyes; and it's fun to see my daughter suddenly understanding gags and references that she's seen in other media.
1. Within fifteen minutes of messaging, we have a GP appointment; and less than an hour after that, we're in front of a medic.
2. A garden right by the pavement crammed with bright garden centre flowers. When it comes to end of summer colour, going shopping is sometimes a good solution.
1. We've had fun and a good rest in Margate, but now it's time to leave, we're glad to turn our faces towards home.
2. Catching glimpses of Canterbury Cathedral, and the Wye chalk crown as the train cuts through the Kent countryside.
3. Alec and I start out playing Baldur's Gate. We spend most of the session creating our characters and tweaking their appearances; and then quite a bit more of it going 'Wow' at the cutscenes in which a creepy biomechanical airship harasses a Bologna-a-like city.
1. The startling sight on this hot hot day of women in bikinis and full make-up including false eyelashes and thick black brows.
2. Kokeshi dolls in miniature straw capes gaze through the dusty window of a junk shop. I would like to bust some of them out, but the shop is closed in Tuesdays.
3. We have had a quiet day and are starting to look and feel rested.
1. We are hurrying with our cases over the bridge. We end up behind a man in railway uniform carrying a pushchair for a stressed mother who also got caught by the platform change. 'Don't worry,' he tells us. 'The train can't leave without me.'
2. We step carefully along a chalk tunnel, going steadily downwards, grazing our heads on the ceiling before stumbling into a chamber 40 foot high -- Margate Caves is easily worth the fiver it costs to get in.
3. In our bedroom, which faces away from the glaring afternoon sun, there's a fan gently whirring.
1. In the night someone has been eating cake, going by the crumbs on the chopping board.
2. I manage today's waiting with a Terry Pratchett book from the library loaded on to my phone.
3. When I get home, a long cool drink.
1. There are drifts of mauve heather blossom here and there on the common where the trees have been cleared to open up heathland.
2. I rather covet the black portfolio in soft faux leather she has bought for herself -- but it's very much her style, not mine.
3. The way dried mushrooms expand in a bowl of water between lunchtime and dinnertime.