1. While we are running round the supermarket Nick comments on my short skirt and boots. I'm glad he likes the effect, though the skirt is only short because it has to go over the bump, and the boots are noticeable because the only maternity tights I could find were thin and natural-coloured -- my usual warm black tights are now too uncomfortable around the waist.
2. Alec dropping feathers to see how they float to the floor. Later I spot him dropping his supper from the spoon back into his bowl. Science.
3. Wrapping one of a pair of loaf cakes for the freezer.
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...