1. The wisdom tooth is better - but apparently my protectiveness towards it when offered extraction is very much like Granny Nichola. And my aunt says that my handwriting gets more and more like my father's. So yay for the miracles of genetics.
2. Mushrooms with sage and apple.
3. My cousin Laura's frankly disturbing art - if she is babysitting for you, ask her to leave her interpretation of 'Little Suck-a-thumb' at home.
Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.
1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...
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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...