1. I wake from a nap to find that Nick has polished all the shoes and trimmed the overbearing cupressus tree.
2. On a day when the washing has gone out... and come back in again... and gone out again, to go to the shops with an umbrella which we did not need.
3. Marks and Spencer do an almond chocolate with caramelised salt. It's delicious.
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...