Friday, May 29, 2009

The final frontier, garden and sleep.

I'm in the Courier this week -- see page 27.

1. Wherever you are, whatever time it is, there is always some form of Star Trek on television.

2. I like showing Nick's mother the containers of flowers and vegetables along our window ledges. Some of them are plants that she has given me.

3. With satisfaction he says: 'The alarm will go off in nine hours. Nine whole hours.'
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Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.

1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...

  • 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...