1. After lunch, while the rain lashes down outside and the wind thrashes at the walls Alec and I doze in bed.
2. To my astonishment the draught is so strong that it sucks one of Alec's balloons up the chimney.
3. At bathtime, the smell of lavender oil lingering in the hall.
Consolation, Effra and icing.
1. I flee Tunbridge Wells and its water woes for a day of wandering London with my aunt. A bit of Turner, a bit of Constable and some miscel...
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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...