1. Fenella, Andy and I took an afternoon stroll across the Common. It's the first really hot day of the year and the place was packed with people disporting themselves on the rocks, batting balls around on the cricket pitch and loving feeling the sun on their skin. It looked like a Lowry painting. We finished up with a bottle of wine in a pub garden. Summer is on its way.
2. There is a new sushi place in Tunbridge Wells - it's called Kitsu and it's really very good. Caroline and I took sushi virgin Ian along and force fed him stunningly fresh raw salmon. 'It doesn't taste of fish at all,' he commented. Kitsu is on Victoria Street - round the back of the shopping centre, and the phone number is 01892 515510.
3. Watching cocktails being mixed by a pro.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...