1. Hanging my newly washed dress on an outside washing line in the sunshine, with the smell of hot cupressus around.
2. Nick's mother takes me by the hand to show me how the sweetpea seeds I gave her for Christmas have grown.
3. Cooking a simple supper and chatting with Nick as I work.
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...