1. The season is changing and my hair is coming out in handfuls. I brush it 100 times to clear out the loose strands. It crackles with every brush stroke.
2. I put Alec's bouncy chair in the garden so he can supervise me hanging out the washing. He seems quite content, so I plant some seeds and do a little tidying, as well.
3. "That's a nice sound," Nick says to Alec. I've just filled the metal watering can from the tap -- it's an echoing bll-bllll-bl noise.
Magnolia, pagoda and station.
1. Late magnolias -- always a pleasure. 2. We like everything about the pagoda -- including the long climb to the top -- but particularly th...

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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...