1. Waking early and discovering it's not Monday -- it's still Sunday.
2. The sky was clear enough when I got up, but now the earth has rolled over, pulled the fog around itself and gone back to sleep.
3. While waiting to pay: 'They're three for two.' So I bring him the rejected third book. It's an old favourite of mine.
Northernmost point, out of the rain and blue fire.
1. An alarm goes off in Nick's pocket to let us know that it's the moment of the winter solstice. 2. The rain is falling in steady c...
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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...