1. Despite the drizzle, a tortoiseshell cat sits in her usual place on the saddle of a parked motorbike. The rain shines in her fur.
2. An adder enjoying the sun at the end of the field. I surprise her and she surprises me. I let out a squeak, and she hurries off into the bracken.
3. Since always, I've been afraid of touching electric fences. Today, I touch one by accident and find that it's not so bad -- it doesn't hurt. It's just a bump.
As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
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...
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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...