1. ...and a second gift from Anna: a tin of gooey brownies.
2. To put new trays in the cutlery drawers and to know that if I reach for a fork, I'll get a fork.
3. We have lost the screws for the bookshelf that we had been looking forward to putting up tonight. We have searched all the places where they should have been put, and now we are starting to worry that they are lost. I try to imagine what they would feel like, and how they would sound, and I remember tucking an unidentified clanking green bag into the utility cupboard.
The real end of Christmas, multitasking and life before.
1. We eat the last of the Christmas treats with our coffee -- a few stray stollen bites from Lidl. 2. While listening to a work webinar, I f...
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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...