Saturday, January 29, 2011

Catching the light, lunch break and mittens.

1. Now we have a chair in the nursery, Alec and I can enjoy the few hours of sun in the middle of the day.

2. A father in a high-vis jacket meets his wife and son for a lunchtime walk in the park.

3. Nick says his boss lost her gloves today. "I told her about Alec's mittens and kittens song," he says, "and it cheered her up." I've been singing Three Little Kittens to Alec. It's hard to know what the appeal is for him -- maybe the different faces for the contrite kittens and the displeased mother cat, or maybe it's the sliding meee-ow, mee-ow.

Volunteers, eleven and bright crayons.

1. Volunteers growing out of the yellow clay on the edge of the building site: a castor oil plant with spiked green seed pods; and a couple ...