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.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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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. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...