1. A pre-dawn snack and a good pull on my water bottle boosts my morale.
2. A box of watermelons in the supermarket, a herd of hefty green piglets.
3. I think I saw Bettany smiling -- it's hard to say for sure because she was nursing at the time, but her eyes lit up and her mouth opened.
3b. Nautical types are everywhere: It's Pirate Day down at Hastings.
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...