1. To catch up with a school friend and with a small measure of cattiness, piece together the stories of our classmates.
2. To take a casserole from the fridge and put it in the oven with a potato on a skewer. Supper done.
3. "There's nothing like pate on warm bread, is there," says Nick. I'm glad I baked this afternoon, and that I didn't finish the pate for lunch.
Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.
1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...
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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...