1. Almond croissants.
2. Making risotto because pouring dry rice into a pan of half-cooked onions seems so disgusting, and yet it results in such a filling and delicious supper. Plus you need to pour in a glass of wine, which means the rest of the bottle must then be drunk.
3. The News Quiz.
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...