Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Visitors, bash and beans.

1. Fenella visits and brings (quite apart from lunch) her beautiful solemn-eyed five-month-old daughter.

2. A gleeful Alec gets an orgy of (permitted) destruction. He and Nick are crushing a bagful of meringues for Eton Mess.

3. Popping broad beans out of their skins.
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Novel, coming back and ready for December.

1. In the early hours, I'm awake, all alone -- but I've got a new novel on my library app: a fenland gothic Saxon mystery called Mer...

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