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.
Hoarders, flowers and technology.
1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...