1. Alec is not hungry and is in the mood for showing off (my cousin Laura has come for a visit). He puts a pasta quill in his mouth and blows down it to make a whistling sound.
2. To spend an afternoon talking art and looking at the picture books that are spread out on the floor.
4. Against the bright evening sky, the blackest curves of a cat with all four paws on the gatepost.
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...