Sunday, March 22, 2009

Nap, restraint and new season.

My aunt (the cake aunt) has just emailed her beautiful things, which include:
  • my taddies have all hatched, all wiggley in a nest of cast-off jelly
  • first baobab now has real leaves
1. Taking a nap because it's Saturday, and I can.

2. Granny rings again. I refrain from answering 'Hallo, Telegraph crossword hotline.'

3. The year's first new potatoes.
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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...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • 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...