1. Wandering into a bookshop I picked up a Tintin book. It made me remember looking at a copy of The Calculus Affair before I could read - trying to pick out the story from the pictures, and loving the brightness of the colours.
2. Randomly running into a friend who has just come back from university - this time for good. We agreed to meet for lunch the next day.
3. Passing a house covered in painted flowers.
Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.
1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...
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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...