1. After nearly a week of grey, plodding cold misery and discouragement: I laugh out loud.
2. Coming home and smelling dinner in the oven.
3. My aunt brings us a cake decorated with holly and ivy and Christmas roses. It has a sugar arch, hung with snowflakes and snow men and Christmas trees decked with silver balls.
Straight back in, persimmons and squabble.
1. In the small hours, I finish the e-book I've borrowed from the library and change it for the next one in the series. 2. We finish the...
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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...