1. At toddler group Alec says 'Let's go when we've had snack and before they start singing.'
2. I am very surprised to find that I have two sleeping children at 7pm. I feel as if I've succeeded as a parent.
3. To escape -- just for an hour or so -- and drink wine with a parent friend while our children sleep behind closed doors. We finish off conversations that we've started in the park or at toddler group, strengthening our subtle and fantastic bridges.
Lifting the dust, tape and stitch.
1. The vacuum cleaner lifts the dust and shines the surface of the floor. 2. The tacky circular sound that happens when I peel off a generou...
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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...