1. A few specks of rain after weeks of dry weather.
2. Trees get more leafy almost as I watch.
3. Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. I like it because characters, themes and places that appear in the Moomin books are repeated. It allows me the reader to look at them through a different coloured window; and it gives me the writer a chance to examine the mechanics of an authoress I admire.
Hoarders, flowers and technology.
1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...
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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...