1. At a book fair, I hear a familiar, rumbling voice: 'Have you got anything about trees?' It's Tom Baker. He chats to my companion, but I retreat in fan-girlish disarray to hide behind a book about cricket in Kent.
2. Babies, it would appear, think Nick is funny. Anonymous Nephew grins broadly every time their eyes meet.
3. A small witch's broom propped outside a front door. I wonder if it belongs to someone who had just returned with their copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Rising, skiing and winter TV.
1. Watching the thermometer lounging in the marmalade pan creep up to 104C. 2. Fine rain is blowing on a mean wind across the slope, but she...
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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...