1. The health visitor breaks off from advising me on feeding: "Oh, he's gorgeous."
2. Getting Alec his first library card, and choosing some books to take home.
3. Carrot purée goes down well with the three- to six-month demographic. Alec takes the spoon from me and (after a few misses) gives it a good gumming. He throw it, lipped clean, to the floor to let me know he's ready for more. I have a second spoon ready. His chops are faintly orange for the rest of the day.
Shower, sparrow and night before bin day.
1. The rain comes down in rushing spate, drowning downpipes and running in fans over the asphalt. Next time I look up, the sun is out, water...
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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...
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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...