1. Talking to a wise man who has met Nelson Mandela. He tells me about "that happiness he has."
2. To come home and change out of a pair of jeans that are stiff and heavy after a dash through stair rod rain.
3. The taste of particularly good olive oil - there's a bitterness there, and an earthiness.
Friendly, strayed and cedar.
1. In the small hours, when I can't get back to sleep, there's a friendly, familiar Terry Pratchett book waiting on my phone. 2. We ...
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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. 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...