1. Nick stays at home to watch the Superbowl, which he recorded late last night. His beautiful thing for the day is that his wife (who had to get up early and start work) didn't wake him up and tell him the result.
2. Watching snowflakes wink out as they land.
3. To hold a friend's new baby for the first time, and marvel at his tiny fingers curled round my thumb.
Lifting the dust, tape and stitch.
1. The vacuum cleaner lifts the dust and shines the surface of the floor. 2. The tacky circular sound that happens when I peel off a generou...
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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...