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.
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...