1. A thrush singing in a garden I pass on my way to work. I love thrushes because they sing as it gets dark.
2. Leaving work while it's still light.
3. Unabridged talking books because it's like reading but you can do other stuff at the same time. I'm listening to D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers - a dour tale of a benighted marriage and adored children.
Salt, appointment and looking out.
1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...
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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...