Sunday, February 26, 2012

Rest, balanced and fruit salad.

1. All I have to do today is rest and get well.

2.  I put my head round the bathroom door and find Nick has balanced the radio on the sink because Alec has asked, as he often does, to listen. It's Live From the Met with Verdi's Ernani. Alec is standing in the bath bobbing his head and crooning. "He's singing along," says Nick.

3. The colours in a salad of kiwi fruit and blood oranges.

Poached egg, acer and bramble.

1. Carefully opening my poached egg so the yolk runs on to the toast. 2. The acer tree -- lime green edged with crimson. 3. Bramble shoots, ...