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.
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Rising, skiing and winter TV.

1. Watching the thermometer lounging in the marmalade pan creep up to 104C. 2. Fine rain is blowing on a mean wind across the slope, but she...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...