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 ...
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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...
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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...