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.
Jaybird, physio and collab.
1. I hear a cry like a child's -- but from the top of a tree. A jay with a beak full of grass wisps and blue flashes on her wings looks ...
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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 ...