1. This garden is flying irises -- the blue of deep sea and the yellow of suns drawn in wax crayon.
2. The swifts are louder than the engine of the bus.
3. In the middle of the day, to walk under warm air ticking with crickets in a tangled field starred with buttercups.
Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.
1. The grounding weight of my watering cans. 2. Our schedules mean that I eat supper alone in the peaceable, silent kitchen. 3. Now the chil...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...