1. Hot chocolate made with real squares of chocolate in a thick mug.
2. Johanna aged 8 months wriggling with excitement in her mother's arms at something that none of us could appreciate.
3. Paul V taking a moment out of his busy schedule to sit in my flat reading the papers and catching up.
Pears, jay bird and guacamole.
1. I took a kilo of disappointing pears out of the fruit bowl and baked them with ginger and dots of butter. Now they are definitely not dis...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...