1. I'm feeling guilty about taking two evening passes this week, so I try extra hard to make good use of my nursery afternoons. I draw up the following week's meal plans during his morning nap and do the supermarket on my way home from dropping Alec off. I feel very virtuous, and I won't have to face shopping on a Saturday morning.
2. To hurry through the early evening to one of Anna's famous film nights. It's a documentary about the fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. She has fallen a teeny bit in love with him for his kindness and his sense of honour.
3. Runny brie that needs to be eaten right now.
Dress, drink and catch-up.
1. Walking out of the theatre, I hold his hand so he's not tempted to bolt across the swirly carpet into the forest of legs. We agree 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...
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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...