Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Juice, rest and escaped.

1. Every day at breakfast Alec asks, 'Can I have some of your juice?' I give him the last mouthful in the glass and he never asks for any more than that.

2. Nick is at home today so there is time for more rest.

3. A nudey, shrieking with laughter and pink and white after his bath, has escaped down the stairs. He nearly makes it out into the garden before I can turn him round and send him back up

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Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.

1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    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...