1. When He Who Shall Not Be Named goes quiet, and we know he's up to something.
2. Hot cross buns -- the posh sort that taste of spices and freshly baked bread.
3. Princess Mononoke -- another animation from Studio Ghibli. In particular, the mist and the scene where spots of rain fall on dry rocks.
Blue glass, hot pink and bergamot.
1. Our taxi driver has a string of blue glass beads hanging by his window. He speaks proudly about his two boys -- one at school with my son...
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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...