1. Lingering at a market stall while picking over a tray of jewellery described as 'the latest from Paris.'
2. Lying on the floor playing with toy cars. You can line them up and pretend it's a carpark for a festival -- use a CD as the main stage, and have the police cars patrolling up and down nicking troublemakers; or you can race them by giving them a good push and sending them off across the floor; or you can put them on a collision course with Thomas the Tank Engine.
3. Sitting in a conservatory when it's raining outside.
Salt, appointment and looking out.
1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...
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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...