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1. When I go down to the sandwich van, I find the air outside is warmer than the air inside, and I'm tempted to stand around chatting, rather than hurrying back indoors to get away from a biting wind laced with freezing rain.
2. The lie of the land has caught a pocket of warm, damp air against the slope. We stand for a moment feeling the heat.
3. I am so tired by the end of the evening that I fall asleep almost before I realise I've got into bed.
Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.
1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...
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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...