1. Getting a book through the post -- this time, Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It's illustrated by Mervyn Peake, which is why I bought it. The pictures are ink drawings on white paper, but the shading is so dense for this dark work that it almost looks as if the light areas are drawn in, rather than the shadows.
2. Tiny Tin Lady. Particularly the song Moon Moves.
3. Sharing a box of chocolates with Katie.
In the night, fish and steel.
1. I'm up in the small hours making a hot water bottle. While I wait for the kettle to boil, I lift the blind and see a fat moon and a s...
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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. 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. Technical difficulties. I let go of having working earbuds for this walk. Then I have one last try, and they switch on. 2. Acorns crunchi...