1. I am delighted to announce that the cherry trees up Mount Edgcombe Road are now in full glorious pink bloom. They make me think of pink coconut cakes.
2. A few bluebells growing under the scrubby, scratchy hedge round the Vale Road Hotel.
3. Outside the Early Learning Centre they have set up a bubble-blowing machine. When children see it, they wriggle away from their parents and run towards it.
Haircut, revision and changing sky.
1. At this salon, with the sinks set up so I'm looking at a view of the woods while the hairdresser shampoos and rinses, I suddenly unde...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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. We are sheltered under the garden centre's great barn roof. There is a rush of sound and air as the rain comes down. 2. A mushroom, c...
 
