1. I take Louise a few red and yellow nasturtiums that I grew from seed. As I pick them, I notice -- really notice for the first time -- that only one yellow plant came up; and that the orange ones are all different: deep ember red; a flat plastic orange; flame colours and scarlet.
2. I like chopping coriander, and a few seedlings thinned from my spring onion trough.
3. A bowl of hot and sour soup with a few noodles and some pieces of chicken hidden in its corn-gold depths.
End at the beginning, whistler and no pressure.
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