1. All the hedges are May green and foamy white.
2. Fat and thin asparagus spears in our vegetable box. I like the way they change colour as they cook from dusky green with purple chevrons to bright seaweed jade.
3. I like taking a dish of slow-cooked rhubarb out of the oven and stirring it so that the stalks fall into tangled threads.
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...