1. The tinny roar of a metal watering can filling in the sink.
2. This week we have a meal plan, and it made my morning so much easier -- I didn't have to think or worry, I just got the food out of the freezer. It meant I had more headspace for amusing Alec, and, I think, more patience and more willpower.
3. It's a hot day, so we share a peachy ice lolly (tinned peaches, blender, ice lolly mould, freezer). Slurp.
Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.
1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...
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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...