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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Cep, what next and yellow spine.

1. He sees that I'm carrying a large and tasty mushroom that I have found on the common, and I see that he sees, and we both smile. 2. W...

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