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.
Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.
1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...
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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...