1. Flatpack furniture is heavy if you don't have a car; so getting it home is a beautiful thing. And the floaty feeling in your arms have after you put down a heavy load. Plus the funny wobbly feeling that makes it difficult to do anything with accuracy - 'I'm sorry, I can't lay the table. I'd probably drop a glass.'
2. My parents live in the middle of dark forest, far from streelights and smog, so I love arriving there at night and seeing the stars for the first time in weeks.
3. The deep midnight blues and jewelly reds of anemones.
Lifting the dust, tape and stitch.
1. The vacuum cleaner lifts the dust and shines the surface of the floor. 2. The tacky circular sound that happens when I peel off a generou...
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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...