1. Susan speaks with such passion about Wilkie Collins that I go home with her to borrow The Woman in White.
2. We've settled in for a long rain. The birds are still singing, and the sky is flat white.
3. It's my father's birthday -- a good excuse for a phone call and a quick chat.
Rainwater, heave and tiramisu.
1. The softness of rainwater -- unthinking I lather my hands with the usual amount of soap, and then find I can't rinse it off. 2. I div...
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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...