1. To look out of the top window of a house near us and see over a wall that has always made me curious: there is a large cottage garden with white wirework furniture.
2. Alec and I get lamb chops for our lunch. We eat them with red currant jelly and gnaw on the bones.
3. Alec and the other two children are sitting on a grassy bank. We see them talking and then the girl storms off. The boys run back over to us for advice: "She told us to go away!"
PS: We went to one of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's family fun days and it was excellent -- just a big space full of games with lots of children running around playing freely.
Pears, jay bird and guacamole.
1. I took a kilo of disappointing pears out of the fruit bowl and baked them with ginger and dots of butter. Now they are definitely not dis...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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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...