1. Daffodils and all their cousins are so cheap just now that it seems rude not to treat myself to a cheery yellow posy in a blue glass.
2. Pushing nasturtium seeds into the earth -- I was taught how to do this when I was very little.
3. Melting chocolate over a pan of hot water.
Consolation, Effra and icing.
1. I flee Tunbridge Wells and its water woes for a day of wandering London with my aunt. A bit of Turner, a bit of Constable and some miscel...
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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...