Thursday, March 24, 2022

Shadow, lemon cake and Milly-Molly-Mandy.

1. The way Alec walks close behind us in case he needs to hide from someone we know.

2. My mother brings lemon cake that is light as a feather. She says she doesn't know how it turned out like that, though.

3. Bettany brings a Milly-Molly-Mandy book upstairs for me to read to her. It's a new edition, a nice knocky hardback, and the designer, with a good eye for detail, has given it a 1930s feel.
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Winter is passing, toad in the hole and mulled wine.

1. It is cold (although less chill than it has been) and cloudy (although less grey than it has been) and a robin sings loudly from the top ...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    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...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    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...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    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...