1. 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep', but they are also, frankly, damp and chilly, so it's a pleasure to come out into the sun.
2. Crunching last year's beechmasts under my feet.
3. When it is earlier than you think. We were working over lunch, so we went to Wagamama for early supper, which made for a good long evening.
At the gate, invitation and beetroots.
1. I find yet more recycling and squinting in the drizzle, go down to the gate to put it out. Our neighbour is at her gate and we grumble ge...
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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...