Thursday, February 07, 2008

Old acres, small and white and division.

1. The four-acre vegetable garden is empty -- just a walled field with a few faithful espaliered trees still spreading themselves across the bricks.

2. A drift of snowdrops in a wood.

3. Mark, who is not supposed to eat dessert, has a treacle sponge on his birthday. He cuts it up carefully and eats each piece slowly.

Awake, potato cake and done.

1. To wake of my own accord in the dark not long before the alarm. 2. Nick's potato cake today is a thing of beauty -- warm inside, with...