1. He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named and Char are now both back from holidays that seemed to last forever. It feels good to have a whole team again.
2. The greenery outside the meeting room is reflected on the surface of the table.
3. A parcel containing a large and expensive box of chocolates -- Fenella and Andy's birthday present was a subscription to Hotel Chocolate. There are two of each variety, so Katie and I will work our way through each month's box, comparing notes and making pretentious remarks on the comment sheet.
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...