1. The smell of strawberries.
2. Towards evening, the wind got up and made it too cool to sit outside. We walked down to the lake to warm up and found that the hill kept the wind off. The air was almost still.
3. Katie's dog Milly is one big grin. Most retrievers are, I think. She ran round and round the lake, in and out of the water, up and down the bank as if it was the most exciting game in the world.
Salt, appointment and looking out.
1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...
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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 jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...