1. Windows with old glass in them because of the waviness. And I like thinking about all the people who must have looked through them over the years.
2. Eating icecream while reading a popular-novel-of-the-day. In this case The Jane Austen Book Club. It's light and frothy, combining intimate details about people's lives - the sort of thing you wouldn't say out loud at a book club - with the study of literature.
3. Reading that 'You will not be able to do this (yoga position) if your spine is not correctly aligned' and discovering that I could do the stretch easily. The next one - the plough - was a different matter. I got the giggles with my knees round my ears. But it reminded me of how much fun yoga is - or should be.
Change in weather, dessert and requiem.
1. In the time it took us to walk through the house from the back garden to the front, the air has filled with misty drizzle. 2. She had 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. 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...