1. "Look at his eyelashes," says my mother again. "They're like Grandpa Barclay's -- his used to curl over his eyelids like anything."
2. A lost toy rabbit -- loved into greyness -- waits patiently and faithfully on a wall in the street leading up to the park.
3. A man walking round the Grove's perimeter seems to be chased by a few dead leaves. It's the ears and tail of a dachshund -- the rest of her was hidden by a rise in the ground.
Instead, autumn colour and the fruit we have.
1. This morning is too wet and windy for walking. Instead, a hot bath and a good book. 2. She comes home with a decorative pumpkin made in s...
-
1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
-
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...
-
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...