The new Podcast up is up.
1. I like it when I look up from my work and it's an hour earlier in the day than I expected.
2. I buy myself a Cadbury's creme egg and eat it after lunch. I feel as if I've done my duty for the year.
3. The parsnips have browned to the colour of autumn oak leaves. They taste faintly of honey, although I cooked them plain.
Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.
1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...
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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...