1. The optician thinks I take good care of my glasses. If only he could see me scrubbing them on the hem of my skirt, putting them in with the washing up, falling asleep with them beside me in bed and forgetting I'm wearing them and trying to rub my eyes.
2. I carve a little space in the day to sit in a coffee shop.
3. Asparagus to nibble while I wait for dinner.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...