1. Going back to sleep for half an hour.
2. A last rose in the midst of leafless briars. It is an unremarkable plastic pink colour by day, but at night it glows.
3. A large bowl of bright yellow butternut squash soup. And the smell of coriander as I am chopping it to add to this soup.
Shower, sparrow and night before bin day.
1. The rain comes down in rushing spate, drowning downpipes and running in fans over the asphalt. Next time I look up, the sun is out, water...
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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...