Friday, April 06, 2012

The green bag, character reading and back early.

1. I am on the phone to my mother when Alec wanders into the kitchen with a large green paper bag on his head.

2. Anna tells the woman at the next table that she should go for the Earl Grey tea bread. "It's sophisticated and understated so it would suit you." The woman looks surprised, and I think, pleased. Anna often has that effect on people.

3. Nick is home before we are.

Squeal, snowdrops and crocuses.

1. In the café where I've been waiting, a high-pitched mechanical sound has been bothering me sporadically. One of the three plasterers ...