Sunday, February 02, 2014

Tags, evidence and starving.

1. "Do come again," Alec tells Grandpa as he steps out of the door. Our boy seems to collect these little social niceties in the same way that he collects sticks, and he takes such pleasure in bringing them out at odd moments.

2. Alec solemnly poses for photographs in front of 'evidence' such as sticks, possibly bamboo chewed by a giant ape; footprints on the path behind the cricket pavilion, possibly of a giant ape; and holes on the cricket pitch, possibly made by the talons of a landing harpagornis.

3. Being able to eat as much as I want because I'm breastfeeding.

Change in weather, dessert and requiem.

1. In the time it took us to walk through the house from the back garden to the front, the air has filled with misty drizzle. 2. She had the...