a. Lucy over at Box Elder recently wrote a rather lovely description of 3BT, and she's been recording her own, illustrating them with her beautiful photographs.
b. I'll be at Oxfam in Chapel Place, Tunbridge Wells, on Saturday from noon to 3pm helping them to celebrate their bookfest -- do come and say hi if you're in the area.
1. Someone has dropped a box of jewels in among our vegetables... My mistake: it's strawberries (which, on reflection, is even better).
2. I feel anxious about the move, which is next week. I fill a couple more boxes and immediately feel better. The empty shelves are reassuring. I hope we can achieve the same feeling of light and air in the new house. We'll have to be thoughtful about acquiring new possessions.
3. We invite a friend to stay -- because this time next week, we will have a guest bedroom
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...