1. I like to look up at the stars of pine needles, and hear the wind breathing through them.
2. After a day of bright sun and wind, the tomato plants are looking droopy, so I water them.
3. We watch Ray Mears' Real Heroes of Telemark -- a documentary that combines bushcraft, skiing and sabotage of a Nazi atomic bomb programme. How could I not love it?
Spider work, salts and bickering.
1. Cobwebs gleam where they catch the low-angled sun -- polygonal nets strung from brambles; gauzy dancefloors in the gorse. 2. Tipping th...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...