1. Rosey comes to visit, which I think means she is properly home. Alec hides under my skirt until he feels he knows her again.
2. Towards the end of lunch Alec makes one of his strange eyes squeezed shut, head rolling faces. The mother and Rosey, who are sitting opposite him, both laugh. He opens his eyes and asks "Alec funny?"
3. Alec is hiding under a blanket next to me on the bed. "I'm sure it is Daddy, not a big brown bear," I tell him.
"No, it Vikings."
Brew-up, out of the oven and future dressing.
1. I stir the tea in the canister to get the right mix of black tea leaves and flower petals and orange peel and lift a spoonful into the in...
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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...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...