1. To make baby Chloe laugh with a game that Alec used to like (I count one, two, three and 'pop' her little fists apart).
2. "Bic-bic?" says Alec in an enquiring sort of way. It's almost 4pm, and I've got a fiver so we walk down to the church cafe on the High Street and take tea together.
3. A soft fat sandwich on sweetish bread with a salty filling.
Goldfinches, meeting and mackerel.
1. Goldfinches, painted like they're going to war, crowd the bird feeders. 2. We meet my cousin's partner for the first time, and it...
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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...