1. It is clear from his morning enthusiasm that Alec is feeling much better. Later he tells Granny with much satisfaction that "Mummy made me eat baked beans and I sicked them all up."
2. When I come back downstairs I find that Nick is standing behind the sofa watching the end of the Super Bowl with the sound turned down. He has rocked Bettany to sleep.
3. To lie with a hot water bottle behind my back.
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...