1. There are two mothers nursing in the coffee shop.
2. They gave us Alec's nursery folder to take home -- they record things he does as evidence to show he is reaching the milestones on a government framework. It sounds terribly dry, but it's full of photos and craft. The short accounts of his doings please me very much. My favourite was from April (so well before Bettany arrived). It describes him carrying a doll round on his hip as he played, pausing from time to time to ask 'baby' if he was OK.
3. A quick and simple lunch of pasta with sauce from a jar.
Hoarders, flowers and technology.
1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...