1. I notice that Matthieu says "Bo-bo-bo" to Alistair, just as Nick says to Alec. And when he lifts him up, he says: "Waaugh!", just like Nick. When I tell Matthieu this, he says that it's probably neolithic. I think it's an international dad school.
2. To pick heartsease in various combinations of yellow and purple and white and use them to decorate the fruit salad.
3. Katie and Chloe leave shortly after lunch, but for the rest of the afternoon Alec keeps saying: "Bye Bye Loey".
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...