1. Waking up and realising that it's a hot day and you have a line-up of outside things--a workshop in the park and a play on the Pantiles.
2. The fairy costumes in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this performance, Titania wore an ivy leaf bustiere and she had green sparkly eyelashes.
3. Here are the nice things I have eaten and drunk today: A tall mug of milky coffee while doing my morning computer duties. Some dolce latte cheese, a tomato with salt and pepper and some particularly good olive bread for late lunch. Martini Rosso and lemonade on the Pantiles. And bottles of beer and a handful of strawberries in the small hours.
Shelter, arisen and pub.
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...
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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. 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...