1. I particularly enjoy a run when I use it as a way of getting from B to A (A being home, I wouldn't want to arrive at B all hot and out of breath) or to do an errand.
2. When I pick Alec up from nursery I discover him asleep in the quiet corner on a pile of cushions. Everyone else is outside but they have stationed a kind and motherly member of staff nearby to keep an eye on his scabby knees, round cheeks and softly moving breath.
3. Nick brings home sunflowers and spiky eryngiums, which match my mood perfectly.
Blue glass, hot pink and bergamot.
1. Our taxi driver has a string of blue glass beads hanging by his window. He speaks proudly about his two boys -- one at school with my son...
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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...