1. Eating lunch and gossipping in the shade on the Common with Katie.
2. The Mother has filled my flat with flowers - there is a vase of Gertrude Jekyll (comforting pink with tight layered spiralling petals and scent you could get drunk on); a vase of Rosa moyesii; some daisies in a Coke bottle; a vase of Alchemilla mollis and roses white and red and a vase of ranunculus ranging from butter yellow to orange squash colour to creamy white to regal purple.
3. Courgettes cooked in mint.
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...